Flights from Shanghai to Abu Dhabi start at €638.52 and take 12h 47m at their fastest.
The Flights from Shanghai to Abu Dhabi starts at €638.52 and takes 12h 47m door to door, run by 1 operator over 6,735 km, with around 6 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 30 days before departure.
Two journeys we can sell today, with the service number each operator files them under.
Changes at Delhi, with 80 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.
Door to door 14h 34mCO2 1233.2 kgChanges 1Fixed, no changes
Door to door 12h 47mCO2 996.8 kgChanges 0Fixed, no changes
Changes at Dubai, with 61 minutes between services and a walk of about 14 minutes.
Door to door 13h 26mCO2 984.1 kgChanges 1Fixed, no changes
Speed, flexibility and what is on board. Nothing here is a rating, because we have not earned one.
| Operator | From | Fastest | Typical speed | Flexibility | On board |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Etihad Airways | €554.15 | 12h 1m | 740 km/h | Fixed fare | Not published |
The flight gets you into Abu Dhabi. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.
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The Flight from Shanghai to Abu Dhabi takes 12h 47m door to door, of which 9h 37m is spent moving. The route runs 6,735 km. The difference between the two times is reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end, which every time on this page includes.
The Flight from Shanghai to Abu Dhabi starts at €638.52 for one passenger, checked on 13 September 2026. A typical fare is €604.01. Both are the total including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so the price here is the price at checkout.
1 operators run the Flight from Shanghai to Abu Dhabi: Etihad Airways. Between them they file around 6 departures a day. The operator table on this page compares them on fare, journey time, cruising speed, fare conditions and what is provided on board.
The Flight from Shanghai to Abu Dhabi leaves from Shanghai PVG and arrives at Abu Dhabi AZI. Allow about 3h 10m for reaching the departure terminal and leaving the arrival one. That time is already inside every door to door figure quoted on this page.
Fares for the Flight from Shanghai to Abu Dhabi bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €426.71. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 151 percent, measured on 13 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.
The Flight from Shanghai to Abu Dhabi produces about 996.8 kg of CO2 per passenger over 6735 km, which works out at roughly 148 grams per passenger kilometre. That figure is for the whole journey and for one traveller, not for the vehicle.
Observed service A carrier record shows this named operator serving this named pair, and we carry that through unchanged.
Schedules, seat counts and fares are generated by our own model until the supplier contracts are signed. Places, coordinates, operators, which operator serves which pair, and every distance are real. We would rather say that on every page than let a modelled number pass for a filed one.
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Abu Dhabi is large, and the road in from AUH can take longer than the last hour of the flight. Cars are not our business.
Settled in advance, so the ride into Abu Dhabi costs what it said it would rather than what the rank says.
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