Shanghai to Baotou flight

Flights from Shanghai to Baotou start at €162.39 and take 5h 46m at their fastest.

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The Flights from Shanghai to Baotou starts at €162.39 and takes 5h 46m door to door, run by 1 operator over 1,523 km, with around 4 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.

Checked September 11, 2026Priced for September 29, 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 5h 46mDoor to door
  • 2h 36mMoving
  • €162.39From
  • 374.7 kgCO2
Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on September 29, 2026

Two journeys we can sell today, with the service number each operator files them under.

Cheapest€130.53
  1. Spring Airlines SA692607:301h 54m09:24Shanghai SHATaiyuan TYN
  2. Shandong Airlines SA218611:041h12:04Taiyuan TYNBaotou BAV

Changes at Taiyuan, with 100 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.

Door to door 7h 44mCO2 376.6 kgChanges 1Fixed, no changes

Fastest€142.92
  1. Shanghai Airlines SA381206:252h 36m09:01Shanghai PVGBaotou BAV

Door to door 5h 46mCO2 374.7 kgChanges 0Fixed, no changes

Carriers

Airlines

Speed, flexibility and what is on board. Nothing here is a rating, because we have not earned one.

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
Shanghai Airlines€142.925h 31m740 km/hFixed fareNot published

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Rooms within reach of Baotou railway station

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Booking window

When to book Shanghai to Baotou

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

  1. €165.3490 days
  2. €102.2160 days
  3. €118.0445 days
  4. €125.8130 days
  5. €143.8921 days
  6. €206.6414 days
  7. €276.267 days
  8. €224.343 days
  9. €389.191 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €102.21.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 281 percent. The most expensive point is €389.19, 1 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 60 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. €185.69Sun
  2. €170.84Mon
  3. €162.39Tue
  4. €168.09Wed
  5. €209.59Thu
  6. €206.64Fri
  7. €217.85Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

The stations, airports and ports each mode on this corridor actually uses.

Shanghai

Air
  • PVG
  • SHA

Baotou

Air
  • BAV
The journey

What the journey actually looks like

Direct or connecting, how far the route really runs, and what happens when a connection is missed.

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 1,523 km against 1,478 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 Shijiazhuang, Ordos, Nanjing, Taiyuan. 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 Shanghai at 06:25 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 Shanghai to Baotou

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 Shanghai to Baotou take?

The Flight from Shanghai to Baotou takes 5h 46m door to door, of which 2h 36m is spent moving. The route runs 1,523 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 Shanghai to Baotou cost?

The Flight from Shanghai to Baotou starts at €162.39 for one passenger, checked on September 29, 2026. A typical fare is €142.63. 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 Shanghai to Baotou?

1 operators run the Flight from Shanghai to Baotou: Shanghai Airlines. 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 Shanghai to Baotou use?

The Flight from Shanghai to Baotou leaves from Shanghai PVG and arrives at Baotou BAV. 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 Shanghai to Baotou?

Fares for the Flight from Shanghai to Baotou bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €102.21. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 281 percent, measured on September 29, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Flight from Shanghai to Baotou produce?

The Flight from Shanghai to Baotou produces about 374.7 kg of CO2 per passenger over 1523 km, which works out at roughly 246 grams per passenger kilometer. That figure is for the whole journey and for one traveler, not for the vehicle.

Where these numbers come from

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 modeled number pass for a filed one.

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

On this page
Every figure above was computed for Shanghai to Baotou on September 11, 2026: 1523 km of route against 1478 km in a straight line, 4 services a day, 1 operators, a cheapest fare of €162.39, and 5h 46m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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