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RM 621 Find cheap flights from Australia to Kota Kinabalu

This is the cheapest one-way flight price found by a KAYAK user in the last 72 hours by searching for a flight to Kota Kinabalu departing on 5/2. Fares are subject to change and may not be available on all flights or dates of travel. Click the price to replicate the search for this deal.
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Flights to Kota Kinabalu - Travel Insights & Trends

Get data-powered insights and trends into flights to Kota Kinabalu to help you find the cheapest flights, the best time to fly and much more.

What is the cheapest day to fly to Kota Kinabalu?

The average price of all flights to Kota Kinabalu clicked on KAYAK for each day over the last 12 months.
Based on KAYAK data, the cheapest day to fly to Kota Kinabalu is Thursday where tickets can be as cheap as RM 1,336. On the other hand, the most expensive day to fly is Saturday, where prices are RM 6,211 on average.

What is the cheapest month to fly to Kota Kinabalu?

To calculate monthly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each month over the last year for flights to Kota Kinabalu, removes the top 0.1% to account for outliers, and then takes the median of all values for each month.
The cheapest month for flights to Kota Kinabalu is March, where tickets cost RM 2,118 on average for one-way flights. On the other hand, the most expensive months are December and January, where the average cost of tickets from Australia is RM 3,383 and RM 2,981 respectively. For return trips, the best month to travel is March with an average price of RM 2,118.

What is the cheapest time of day to fly to Kota Kinabalu?

The average price for all flights to Kota Kinabalu depending on the time of departure, clicked by users on KAYAK in the last 2 weeks.
The cheapest time of day to fly to Kota Kinabalu is generally at night, when flights cost RM 1,342 on average. The most expensive time of day to fly to Kota Kinabalu is generally in the afternoon, which is peak travel time and where the average cost of a ticket is RM 2,735.

How far in advance should I book a flight to Kota Kinabalu?

To calculate daily average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each day before departure over the last year for flights to Kota Kinabalu, removes the top 0.1% to account for outliers, and then takes the average of all the values for each month.
To get a below average price, you should book around 0 weeks before departure. For the absolute cheapest price, our data suggests you should book 167 days before departure.

Good to know

Low season

April

High season

December

Cheapest flight

RM 621
Best time to beat the crowds (1% less expensive on average)
Most popular time to fly (43% more expensive on average)
Flight from Perth to Kota Kinabalu

FAQs - booking Kota Kinabalu flights

  • How far is Kota Kinabalu Airport from central Kota Kinabalu?

    You’ll need to travel 6 km to reach the Kota Kinabalu city centre from Kota Kinabalu Airport.

  • What is the name of Kota Kinabalu’s airport?

    When flying to Kota Kinabalu, you'll arrive at Kota Kinabalu Airport (BKI). The airport is also known as Kota Kinabalu or Kota Kinabalu Intl.

  • How does KAYAK find such low prices on flights to Kota Kinabalu?

    KAYAK is a travel search engine. That means we look across the web to find the best prices we can find for our users. With over 2 billion flight queries processed yearly, we are able to display a variety of prices and options on flights to Kota Kinabalu.

  • How does KAYAK's flight Price Forecast tool help me choose the right time to buy my flight ticket to Kota Kinabalu?

    KAYAK’s flight Price Forecast tool uses historical data to determine whether the price for a flight to Kota Kinabalu is likely to change within 7 days, so travellers know whether to wait or book now.

  • What is the Hacker Fare option on flights to Kota Kinabalu?

    Hacker Fares allow you to combine one-way tickets in order to save you money over a traditional round-trip ticket. You could then fly to Kota Kinabalu with an airline and back with another airline.

  • What is KAYAK's "flexible dates" feature and why should I care when looking for a flight to Kota Kinabalu?

    Sometimes travel dates aren't set in stone. If your preferred travel dates have some wiggle room, flexible dates will show you all the options when flying to Kota Kinabalu up to 3 days before/after your preferred dates. You can then pick the flights that suit you best.

  • How many direct flights to Kota Kinabalu are there each week?

    Each week there are around 451 direct flights from within Australia to Kota Kinabalu. The most common day for departures is Thursday, with 15% of flights taking off on this day.

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Top tips for finding cheap flights to Kota Kinabalu

  • Book at least 1 week before departure in order to get a below-average price.
  • High season is considered to be January, November and December. The cheapest month to fly from Australia is February.
  • Enter your preferred departure airport and travel dates into the search form above to unlock the latest Kota Kinabalu flight deals.

Prefer to fly direct to Kota Kinabalu?

Find which airlines fly direct to Kota Kinabalu Airport, which days they fly and book direct flights.

Direct departures

Australia to Kota Kinabalu

Monday

AirAsia, AirAsia X, Asiana Airlines, +26 more

AirAsia, AirAsia X, +27 more

Tuesday

AirAsia, AirAsia X, Asiana Airlines, +25 more

AirAsia, AirAsia X, +26 more

Wednesday

Air Busan, AirAsia, AirAsia X, +25 more

Air Busan, AirAsia, +26 more

Thursday

AirAsia, AirAsia X, Asiana Airlines, +25 more

AirAsia, AirAsia X, +26 more

Friday

AirAsia, AirAsia X, Asiana Airlines, +25 more

AirAsia, AirAsia X, +26 more

Saturday

Air Busan, AirAsia, AirAsia X, +26 more

Air Busan, AirAsia, +27 more

Sunday

AirAsia, AirAsia X, Asiana Airlines, +25 more

AirAsia, AirAsia X, +26 more

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Direct returns

Kota Kinabalu to Australia

Monday

AirAsia, AirAsia X, Asiana Airlines, +26 more

AirAsia, AirAsia X, +27 more

Tuesday

AirAsia, AirAsia X, Asiana Airlines, +25 more

AirAsia, AirAsia X, +26 more

Wednesday

Air Busan, AirAsia, AirAsia X, +25 more

Air Busan, AirAsia, +26 more

Thursday

AirAsia, AirAsia X, Asiana Airlines, +25 more

AirAsia, AirAsia X, +26 more

Friday

AirAsia, AirAsia X, Asiana Airlines, +25 more

AirAsia, AirAsia X, +26 more

Saturday

Air Busan, AirAsia, AirAsia X, +26 more

Air Busan, AirAsia, +27 more

Sunday

AirAsia, AirAsia X, Asiana Airlines, +25 more

AirAsia, AirAsia X, +26 more

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Top airline flying from Australia to Kota Kinabalu

 
See real verified KAYAK customer reviews for airlines flying to Kota Kinabalu. Airline scores are aggregated from all reviews left by passengers on KAYAK after flying with an airline from Australia to Kota Kinabalu. KAYAK doesn’t show reviews that are older than 5 years. Learn how KAYAK collects reviews.
Need help choosing which airline to fly with to Kota Kinabalu? KAYAK airline reviews give an overall score for each airline based on loads of factors, including comfort, boarding, in-flight entertainment and more, to make your decision easier. See airline scores according to verified KAYAK customer reviews.
5.9
Batik AirOverall score based on 69 reviews
6.5Boarding
6.2Comfort
4.8Entertainment
5.2Food
6.8Crew
Airline reviews

Did not like that we were not informed about the 4 hour delay, crew not friendly, noone at terminals to consult with...all employees for Batrik were behind glass aftervgoing through security at the gate again. Why no agent at Gate H 10 to answer questions? And no apology. Updates would have eased anxiety. Boarding is disorderly also.

2.0 MediocreDiane, Nov 2024KUL - DPS
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Did not like that we were not informed about the 4 hour delay, crew not friendly, noone at terminals to consult with...all employees for Batrik were behind glass aftervgoing through security at the gate again. Why no agent at Gate H 10 to answer questions? And no apology. Updates would have eased anxiety. Boarding is disorderly also.

During this flight all the crew just focused on making money by selling food and drinks. There was only one washroom open. And it really smelled bad and wasn’t usable. Even to watch something onboard entertainment u have to rent headphones pathetic airline but only one with direct flight so pretty much the only option from Karachi to KL

Delayed for 3 hours, need to pay extra for drinking water.

The OD2204 KUL-LGK was delayed 40 minutes due to air-condition malfuntion, after inspection the technician give green light for the flight to go as usual but the air-condition is still not working properly, passengers complaining to the stewardess but they cannot do anything, I did tweet to @malindoair to complaint but no reply from them … hope this Batik Air is not having problem like Rayani Air and I do hope the management do respond to my complaint as well

Nasi lemak was horrible. Plain white rice, tasteless sambal, no cucumber, no kacang, no ikan bilis. And the chicken was colourless and tasteless, tasted like boiled chicken. Entertainment system didn't work at all.

2 delayed flights - hotel layover in a different country- lost baggage.

Silly to not even offer people water for free when they are paying so much for tickets.

You get what you pay for. It’s functional and gets you from point A to B in good comfort. However, food options are limited and cash only, Crew is a hit and miss .. they get your attention if you reach out.

Good leg room ... air conditioning was a bit warm don't Book row 8 ... no windows

They got to the terminal late, with no one on the arriving flight, boarded us late, and left us sitting there for 2 hours before they got us off the ground. They knew they were going to be late, yet they never got an updated flight plan from their head office until long after the flight was supposed to leave. They could have cut the delay in half, of at least let us stay in the terminal. Really just horrible planning.

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Recent return flight deals

 
These are the cheapest return flights to Kota Kinabalu found on KAYAK in the last 72 hours.
28/2Fri
1 stopScoot
14h 00mPER-BKI
4/3Tue
1 stopScoot
28h 05mBKI-PER
RM 1,233
21/2Fri
1 stopScoot
14h 00mPER-BKI
7/3Fri
1 stopScoot
25h 30mBKI-PER
RM 1,242
10/12Tue
2 stops
36h 15mPER-BKI
14/12Sat
1 stop
17h 45mBKI-PER
RM 1,506
9/12Mon
1 stop
9h 40mPER-BKI
14/12Sat
1 stop
14h 50mBKI-PER
RM 1,560
21/2Fri
2 stopsBatik Air
13h 15mPER-BKI
7/3Fri
1 stopBatik Air
18h 20mBKI-PER
RM 1,922
21/2Fri
2 stopsBatik Air
13h 15mPER-BKI
7/3Fri
1 stopBatik Air
28h 35mBKI-PER
RM 1,935
20/2Thu
2 stopsMalaysia Airlines
14h 00mPER-BKI
7/3Fri
1 stopMalaysia Airlines
10h 45mBKI-PER
RM 2,208
20/2Thu
2 stopsMalaysia Airlines
14h 00mPER-BKI
7/3Fri
1 stopMalaysia Airlines
12h 25mBKI-PER
RM 2,221
17/4Thu
1 stopRoyal Brunei Airlines
21h 10mMEL-BKI
27/4Sun
1 stopRoyal Brunei Airlines
30h 40mBKI-MEL
RM 2,762
17/4Thu
1 stopRoyal Brunei Airlines
9h 10mMEL-BKI
27/4Sun
1 stopRoyal Brunei Airlines
30h 40mBKI-MEL
RM 2,766

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Recent one-way flight deals

 
Only flying one-way? Below are some of the best deals for one-way flights to Kota Kinabalu found on KAYAK in the last 72 hours.
5/2Wed
1 stopScoot
17h 40mPER-BKI
RM 621
3/12Tue
1 stop
14h 40mPER-BKI
RM 626
2/12Mon
1 stopIndonesia AirAsia
9h 40mPER-BKI
RM 782
4/12Wed
1 stopIndonesia AirAsia
16h 50mPER-BKI
RM 787
4/2Tue
2 stopsAirAsia
21h 50mPER-BKI
RM 930
3/1Fri
1 stopAirAsia
24h 00mPER-BKI
RM 1,470
3/12Tue
1 stopBatik Air
15h 55mMEL-BKI
RM 1,564
2/3Sun
1 stopSingapore Airlines
13h 55mMEL-BKI
RM 1,877
12/12Thu
1 stopBatik Air
16h 00mPER-BKI
RM 3,383
3/12Tue
1 stopSingapore Airlines
17h 55mPER-BKI
RM 3,825

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Last minute flights to Kota Kinabalu

Last minute flight, train and bus deals

 
These last-minute flight deals are the cheapest flights found on KAYAK in the last 72 hours for flights to Kota Kinabalu that are departing in the next 10 days.
23/11Sat
multi-stop
28h 05mMEL-BKI
14/12Sat
multi-stop
14h 45mBKI-MEL
RM 2,118
22/11Fri
multi-stop
25h 55mMEL-BKI
14/12Sat
multi-stop
14h 45mBKI-MEL
RM 2,208
23/11Sat
multi-stop
32h 30mMEL-BKI
14/12Sat
multi-stop
13h 45mBKI-MEL
RM 2,525
23/11Sat
multi-stop
23h 05mMEL-BKI
14/12Sat
multi-stop
27h 35mBKI-MEL
RM 2,592
23/11Sat
multi-stop
22h 30mMEL-BKI
14/12Sat
multi-stop
27h 35mBKI-MEL
RM 2,672
22/11Fri
multi-stop
13h 40mMEL-BKI
14/12Sat
multi-stop
27h 45mBKI-MEL
RM 3,808
23/11Sat
multi-stop
32h 30mMEL-BKI
13/12Fri
multi-stop
15h 00mBKI-MEL
RM 3,995
23/11Sat
multi-stop
19h 45mMEL-BKI
13/12Fri
multi-stop
15h 00mBKI-MEL
RM 4,120
22/11Fri
multi-stop
19h 35mMEL-BKI
14/12Sat
multi-stop
29h 10mBKI-MEL
RM 4,572
22/11Fri
multi-stop
13h 40mMEL-BKI
13/12Fri
multi-stop
15h 00mBKI-MEL
RM 5,269

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Everything you need to know for your flight to Kota Kinabalu

Information on the airport you'll fly into in Kota Kinabalu

Kota Kinabalu (BKI)

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