Osaka to Kota Kinabalu flight

Flights from Osaka to Kota Kinabalu start at €394.85 and take 8h 44m at their fastest.

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The Flights from Osaka to Kota Kinabalu starts at €394.85 and takes 8h 44m door to door, run by 1 operator over 3,878 km, with around 5 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 45 days before departure.

Checked September 13, 2026Priced for September 28, 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 8h 44mDoor to door
  • 5h 34mMoving
  • €394.85 to €750.62From
  • 06:10 to 07:30First and last departure
  • 5Per day
  • 573.9 kgCO2

First and last are taken from the services we sell on September 28, 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.

€394.85 to €750.62 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 €750.62Mon14
  2. about €735.28Tue15
  3. about €643.24Wed16
  4. about €737.05Thu17
  5. about €629.67Fri18
  6. about €613.15Sat19
  7. about €655.63Sun20
  8. about €394.85Mon21
  9. about €398.39Tue22
  10. about €473.91Wed23
  11. about €545.30Thu24
  12. about €496.33Fri25
  13. about €493.97Sat26
  14. about €497.51Sun27

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 28, 2026

Cheapest€308.71
  1. Jetstar Asia Airways JA353607:304h 21m11:51Osaka ITMManila MNL
  2. Zest Air ZA739213:132h15:13Manila MNLKota Kinabalu BKI

Changes at Manila, with 82 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.

Door to door 10h 53mCO2 953.7 kgChanges 1Fixed, no changes

Fastest€375.97
  1. Malaysia Airlines MA782106:105h 34m11:44Osaka KIXKota Kinabalu BKI

Door to door 8h 44mCO2 573.9 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
Malaysia Airlines€344.708h 26m740 km/hFixed fareNot published

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 Osaka to Kota Kinabalu

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

  1. €448.5490 days
  2. €372.4360 days
  3. €300.4545 days
  4. €305.7630 days
  5. €364.7621 days
  6. €497.5114 days
  7. €655.637 days
  8. €643.243 days
  9. €750.621 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 45 days ahead, at €300.45.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 150 percent. The most expensive point is €750.62, 1 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 45 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. €497.51Sun
  2. €394.85Mon
  3. €398.39Tue
  4. €473.91Wed
  5. €545.30Thu
  6. €496.33Fri
  7. €493.97Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Osaka

Air
  • KIX
  • ITM

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 3,878 km against 3,765 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, Busan, Daegu, Manila. The gap between arriving and leaving is 46 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 20 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 Osaka at 06:10 and the last at 07:30, across 5 departures The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Osaka 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 Osaka to Kota Kinabalu take?

The Flight from Osaka to Kota Kinabalu takes 8h 44m door to door, of which 5h 34m is spent moving. The route runs 3,878 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 Osaka to Kota Kinabalu cost?

The Flight from Osaka to Kota Kinabalu starts at €394.85 for one passenger, as of September 13, 2026. A typical fare is €381.87. 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 Osaka to Kota Kinabalu?

1 operators run the Flight from Osaka to Kota Kinabalu: Malaysia Airlines. Between them they file around 5 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 Osaka to Kota Kinabalu use?

The Flight from Osaka to Kota Kinabalu leaves from Osaka KIX 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 Osaka to Kota Kinabalu?

Fares for the Flight from Osaka to Kota Kinabalu bottom out around 45 days ahead, at €300.45. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 150 percent, measured on September 13, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

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

The Flight from Osaka to Kota Kinabalu produces about 573.9 kg of CO2 per passenger over 3878 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 Osaka to Kota Kinabalu on September 13, 2026: 3878 km of route against 3765 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €394.85, and 8h 44m 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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