Busan to Kota Kinabalu flight

Flights from Busan to Kota Kinabalu start at €365.35 and take 8h 23m at their fastest.

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The Flights from Busan to Kota Kinabalu starts at €365.35 and takes 8h 23m door to door, run by 1 operator over 3,605 km, with around 4 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 30 days before departure.

Checked September 13, 2026Priced for September 29, 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 8h 23mDoor to door
  • 5h 13mMoving
  • €365.35 to €669.20From
  • 06:38 to 07:30First and last departure
  • 4Per day
  • 533.5 kgCO2

First and last are taken from the services we sell on September 29, 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.

€365.35 to €669.20 for one passenger across the 14 departure dates priced here. The low end is one day, not every day. Worked out from this corridor rather than held for anybody. The operator sets the price on the day.

Fares by date

What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.

Typical fares

  1. about €669.20Mon14
  2. about €534.09Tue15
  3. about €601.94Wed16
  4. about €592.50Thu17
  5. about €600.17Fri18
  6. about €630.85Sat19
  7. about €564.18Sun20
  8. about €365.35Mon21
  9. about €373.61Tue22
  10. about €429.66Wed23
  11. about €519.34Thu24
  12. about €438.51Fri25
  13. about €449.72Sat26
  14. about €461.52Sun27

Based on what this route has cost recently. The operator sets the price on the day, and the live fare is confirmed when you book.

Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on September 29, 2026

Cheapest€301.63
  1. Air Busan AB507106:385h 13m11:51Busan PUSKota Kinabalu BKI

Door to door 8h 23mCO2 533.5 kgChanges 0Fixed, no changes

Carriers

Airlines

Every operator we sell on this corridor. Speed is the carrier's own typical cruising speed, not the average over this route.
OperatorFromFastestTypical speedFlexibilityOn board
Air Busan€301.638h 7m740 km/hFixed fareNot published
  • Air Busan

The flight gets you into Kota Kinabalu. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.

A hotel room

A room in Kota Kinabalu for the night the flight gets in

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Booking window

When to book Busan to Kota Kinabalu

The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.

  1. €428.4890 days
  2. €299.8660 days
  3. €250.0445 days
  4. €246.1730 days
  5. €322.6421 days
  6. €461.5214 days
  7. €547.597 days
  8. €567.943 days
  9. €669.201 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €246.17.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 172 percent. The most expensive point is €669.20, 1 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 30 days before departure. Waiting from here has usually cost money on this corridor rather than saved it.
Day of the week

Which departure day costs least

Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.

  1. €461.52Sun
  2. €365.35Mon
  3. €373.61Tue
  4. €429.66Wed
  5. €518.44Thu
  6. €438.51Fri
  7. €449.72Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Busan

Air
  • PUS

Kota Kinabalu

Air
  • BKI
The journey

What the journey actually looks like

Direct or connecting
20% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 80% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 3,605 km against 3,500 km in a straight line, a detour of 3 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
Where the change is
Connections are made at Taipei, Shanghai, Manila, Daegu. The gap between arriving and leaving is 50 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 19 percent chance of not being made on the timetable alone. Part of this journey is a self transfer between separate tickets, so leave more time than the minimum and expect to check in again.
First and last departure
The first service of the day leaves Busan at 06:38 and the last at 07:30, across 4 departures The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Busan to Kota Kinabalu

The questions people actually ask about this trip, answered from the same prices and times the page above is built on rather than written once and left to go stale.

How long does the Flight from Busan to Kota Kinabalu take?

The Flight from Busan to Kota Kinabalu takes 8h 23m door to door, of which 5h 13m is spent moving. The route runs 3,605 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.

How much does the Flight from Busan to Kota Kinabalu cost?

The Flight from Busan to Kota Kinabalu starts at €365.35 for one passenger, as of September 13, 2026. A typical fare is €360.04. Both are the total including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so the price here is the price at checkout.

Who runs the Flight from Busan to Kota Kinabalu?

1 operators run the Flight from Busan to Kota Kinabalu: Air Busan. Between them they file around 4 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.

Which terminal does the Flight from Busan to Kota Kinabalu use?

The Flight from Busan to Kota Kinabalu leaves from Busan PUS and arrives at Kota Kinabalu BKI. 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.

When should I book the Flight from Busan to Kota Kinabalu?

Fares for the Flight from Busan to Kota Kinabalu bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €246.17. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 172 percent, measured on September 13, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Flight from Busan to Kota Kinabalu produce?

The Flight from Busan to Kota Kinabalu produces about 533.5 kg of CO2 per passenger over 3605 km, which works out at roughly 148 grams per passenger kilometer. That figure is for the whole journey and for one traveler, not for the vehicle.

Where these numbers come from

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 shows this named operator serving this named pair, and we carry that through unchanged.

Where no operator publishes a fare for a corridor, the price here is our own estimate, worked out from the real distance and the real operator through a fare curve that follows lead time, day of the week and season. It tells you roughly what the journey costs. It is not a seat anyone has agreed to sell, and the payment step will not take it.

Defined in full at Door to door, Fares, The booking window, Carbon

On this page
Every figure above was computed for Busan to Kota Kinabalu on September 13, 2026: 3605 km of route against 3500 km in a straight line, 4 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €365.35, and 8h 23m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

Related journeys

The fare from BKI into Kota Kinabalu is the one price on this trip we cannot show you, because it is not ours.

A taxi stand outside an airport terminal

A car waiting when you land in Kota Kinabalu

Settled in advance, so the ride into Kota Kinabalu costs what it said it would rather than what the cab stand says.

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