Flights from Shanghai to Shantou start at €98.08 and take 6h 22m at their fastest.
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The Flights from Shanghai to Shantou starts at €98.08 and takes 6h 22m door to door, run by 3 operators over 1,034 km, with around 2 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.
First and last are taken from the services we sell on 13 October 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.
€106.34 to €266.23 for one passenger across the 14 departure dates priced here. The low end is one day, not every day. Typical for this corridor. The operator sets the price on the day.
What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.
Typical fares
Based on what this route has cost recently. The live fare is confirmed when you book.
Spring Airlines SA616607:301h 35m09:05Shanghai Pudong International Airport PVGXiamen Gaoqi International Airport XMN
China Railway CR762110:281h 27m11:55Xiamen railway stationShantou Railway StationChanges at Xiamen, with 83 minutes between services and a walk of about 14 minutes.
Door to door 6h 22mCO2 182.7 kgChanges 1Fixed, no changes
| Operator | Typical speed | Flexibility | On board |
|---|---|---|---|
| China Eastern Airlines | 740 km/h | Fixed fare | Not published |
| China Railway | 140 km/h | Refundable | Power sockets, Wi-Fi |
| Spring Airlines | 740 km/h | Fixed fare | Not published |
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Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.
| Mode | Door to door | Moving | At the ends | From | CO2 | Per day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flight | 6h 22m | 3h 2m | 3h 20m | €98.08 | 122.6 kg | 2 |
| Train | 10h 29m | 8h 29m | 2h | €118.04 | 37.8 kg | 1 |
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The Flight from Shanghai to Shantou takes 6h 22m door to door, of which 3h 2m is spent moving. The route runs 1,034 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 Shantou starts at €98.08 for one passenger, as of 24 September 2026. A typical fare is €110.47. Both are the total including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so the price here is the price at checkout.
3 operators run the Flight from Shanghai to Shantou: China Eastern Airlines, China Railway, Spring Airlines. Between them they file around 2 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 Shantou leaves from Shanghai Pudong International Airport PVG and arrives at Shantou Railway Station. Allow about 1h 57m for reaching the departure terminal and leaving the arrival one. That time is already inside every door to door figure quoted on this page.
The Flight is both the cheapest and the fastest way from Shanghai to Shantou, at €98.08 and 6h 22m door to door, against 1 other modes that also run the corridor. On this route there is no trade to make between the money and the hours.
Fares for the Flight from Shanghai to Shantou bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €91.59. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 149 percent, measured on 24 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.
The Flight from Shanghai to Shantou produces about 122.6 kg of CO2 per passenger over 1034 km, which works out at roughly 119 grams per passenger kilometre. That figure is for the whole journey and for one traveller, not for the vehicle.
Operators on the Flight from Shanghai to Shantou publish Power sockets, Wi-Fi. That is what 3 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 6h 22m door to door. Where a carrier publishes nothing, this page lists nothing for it.
Places, coordinates, operators, which operator serves which pair, and every distance on this page are real and come from open data. Where a corridor has a filed timetable the departure times are real too, and ferry fares are the prices the operators publish themselves.
Observed service A carrier record names this operator on this pair, carried through unchanged.
Prices come from the supplier wherever we hold a live quote. Elsewhere we show an indicative price built from the real distance, the real operator and a fare curve over lead time, day of the week and season. Those are labelled Estimated fare and cannot be booked.
Defined in full at Door to door, Fares, The booking window, Carbon
6h 22m
3h 2m
€106.34 to €266.23
07:30 to 07:30
2
122.6 kg
Air