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RM 337 Find cheap flights from China 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 22/11. 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 flight to Kota Kinabalu?

These are the best prices found by users searching on KAYAK in the last 72 hours.
In the last 3 days, the cheapest flight deal to Kota Kinabalu was found on the route from Shenzhen, at RM 1,475 one-way and RM 3,256 return. The most popular connection is from Guangzhou to Kota Kinabalu and KAYAK users have found return deals for as low as RM 753 in the last 3 days.

How much is a flight to Kota Kinabalu?

The average and cheapest price for all flights to Kota Kinabalu from each origin found by users searching on KAYAK in the last month.
On average, a flight to Kota Kinabalu costs RM 1,117. The cheapest price found on KAYAK in the last 2 weeks cost RM 92 and departed from Shenzhen. The most popular routes on KAYAK are Guangzhou to Kota Kinabalu which costs RM 3,709 on average, and Shanghai to Kota Kinabalu, which costs RM 1,244 on average.
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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 Wednesday where tickets can be as cheap as RM 810. On the other hand, the most expensive day to fly is Tuesday, where prices are RM 2,769 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 November, where tickets cost RM 836 on average for one-way flights. On the other hand, the most expensive months are March and February, where the average cost of tickets from China is RM 2,661 and RM 2,311 respectively. For return trips, the best month to travel is November with an average price of RM 836.

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 2,311 on average. The most expensive time of day to fly to Kota Kinabalu is generally at night, which is peak travel time and where the average cost of a ticket is RM 2,311.

What is a good deal for flights to Kota Kinabalu?

If you’re looking for cheap airfare to Kota Kinabalu, 25% of our users found tickets to Kota Kinabalu for the following prices or less: From Guangzhou RM 372 one-way - RM 2,168 return.

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 42 days before departure.

Good to know

Low season

April

High season

August

Cheapest flight

RM 337
Best time to beat the crowds but there is an average 18% increase in price.
Most popular time to fly and prices are also 8% lower on average.
Flight from Shenzhen to Kota Kinabalu

FAQs - booking Kota Kinabalu flights

  • What is the cheapest flight to Kota Kinabalu?

    In the last 3 days, the cheapest flight deal to Kota Kinabalu was found on the route from Shenzhen, at RM 1,475 one-way and RM 3,256 return. The most popular connection is from Guangzhou to Kota Kinabalu and KAYAK users have found return deals for as low as RM 753 in the last 3 days.

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

    The distance between Kota Kinabalu Airport and the city centre of Kota Kinabalu is 6 km.

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

    All flights to Kota Kinabalu land at Kota Kinabalu Airport. The airport code is BKI,and it can also be referred to as Kota Kinabalu or Kota Kinabalu Intl.

  • How much is a flight to Kota Kinabalu?

    On average, a flight to Kota Kinabalu costs RM 1,117. The cheapest price found on KAYAK in the last 2 weeks cost RM 92 and departed from Shenzhen Airport.

  • 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 421 direct flights from within China to Kota Kinabalu. The most common day for departures is Wednesday, with 15% of flights taking off on this day.

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

Direct departures

China to Kota Kinabalu

Monday

AirAsia, AirAsia X, Asiana Airlines, +25 more

AirAsia, AirAsia X, +26 more

Tuesday

AirAsia, AirAsia X, Asiana Airlines, +24 more

AirAsia, AirAsia X, +25 more

Wednesday

Air Busan, AirAsia, AirAsia X, +24 more

Air Busan, AirAsia, +25 more

Thursday

AirAsia, AirAsia X, Asiana Airlines, +24 more

AirAsia, AirAsia X, +25 more

Friday

AirAsia, AirAsia X, Asiana Airlines, +23 more

AirAsia, AirAsia X, +24 more

Saturday

Air Busan, AirAsia, AirAsia X, +23 more

Air Busan, AirAsia, +24 more

Sunday

AirAsia, AirAsia X, Asiana Airlines, +25 more

AirAsia, AirAsia X, +26 more

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Direct returns

Kota Kinabalu to China

Monday

AirAsia, AirAsia X, Asiana Airlines, +25 more

AirAsia, AirAsia X, +26 more

Tuesday

AirAsia, AirAsia X, Asiana Airlines, +24 more

AirAsia, AirAsia X, +25 more

Wednesday

Air Busan, AirAsia, AirAsia X, +24 more

Air Busan, AirAsia, +25 more

Thursday

AirAsia, AirAsia X, Asiana Airlines, +24 more

AirAsia, AirAsia X, +25 more

Friday

AirAsia, AirAsia X, Asiana Airlines, +23 more

AirAsia, AirAsia X, +24 more

Saturday

Air Busan, AirAsia, AirAsia X, +23 more

Air Busan, AirAsia, +24 more

Sunday

AirAsia, AirAsia X, Asiana Airlines, +25 more

AirAsia, AirAsia X, +26 more

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Top airlines flying from China 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 China 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.
6.9
China EasternOverall score based on 243 reviews
7.6Crew
6.2Entertainment
7.3Boarding
6.9Comfort
6.3Food
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Better good than most, if not all European airlines. If you’re stuck in an economy seat anyways, China Eastern is a good choice because of shorter flight time, being able to overfly Russia

8.0 ExcellentEric, Nov 2024LHR - PVG
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Better good than most, if not all European airlines. If you’re stuck in an economy seat anyways, China Eastern is a good choice because of shorter flight time, being able to overfly Russia

The temperature of the plane cabin is too hot. Sweat and uncomfortable. Also my food tray was broken down drinks fall off

Reasonable. What they offer during the flight is not great, but the crew is polite and try to compensate it.

Price is the main attraction. Staff is OK but difficult to communicate with them due to general lack of English. Food is truly abysmal, the main courses (4) were barely edible. The choices for breakfast served at 5:30 am prior to landing at Gatwick airport were Spaghetti Bolognese or seafood fried rice. Choices offered for all 4 mains were either something rice or noodles. Shanghai airport layover is much too long in a very poorly serviced airport. We were unable to use WiFi; private lounges required cash only payment with no ATM or cash exchange open.

I was surprised and appreciate that they actually served a hot meal on such a short, early morning flight. The check in and boarding was hassle free and most of all my Alliance Status / Code Share was recognized and the revelant courtesy was extended; other than some needed attention to detail concerning the cleanliness of the cabin, and some unnecessary aggressive wording their safety briefing, it was an overall pleasant flight, and I would certainly fly with them again.

Flight was delayed for more than 3 hours, food was mediocre, seat didn’t recline

Lost Baggage - very frustrated…learned that bag was never put on plane.

I think it’s time that somebody set a standard for the temperature in the cabins. I would rather it be colder than anybody that wants to have a blanket have a blanket to keep it so warm at times is unbearable and quite uncomfortable. That’s the only thing I would add.

For the price we paid, I couldn’t complain. Was good value for money. Service was excellent but food was mediocre. Crew were excellent and spoke English. You will never go hungry. The food was ample but was mediocre. Entertainment limited and wifi doesn’t all allow you to access some social media. The best part was comfortable seats and bed (business class) with a screen to close out the rest of the cabin.

Good airline for the price. The Air stewardess are great, nothing is to much trouble. Will use again.

Instead of landing we had to go around and landed in Kuala Lumpur International Airport instead of Subang. Then we had to restart and arrived over 2.5 hrs late

As usual, poor communication on delays. No info, no updates, no apologies.

Boarding was nuts. Gate change. Delayed. No communication from gate staff. They seemed lost. Rest of the flight went well

Premium check in was worth it. Boarding process was a little chaotic. Seats were super cramped and I am less than 80kg and 180cm

It was good. The FACE check in at KLIA2 was not working.

should remind people who cough must wear the mask. A few persons surrounding keep coughing.

The flight delay... but bus from the airport be on time

Bad experience, delay like no tomorrow. Original schedule departure time at 9:30pm, delayed until 12:05am only depart.

Great. Very satisfied with a direct flight from Penang back to HK international. Stewards in the cabin were very friendly and helpful. Would not hesitate to fly with Air Asia in the future.

Second time flying on AirAsia. They’re fine for a low cost carrier, so I don’t expect high level hospitality. They could have informed us that the flight would be delayed even if by a few minutes, instead of the passengers asking the gate agents why we’re not boarding 8 minutes before takeoff. And given some of the passengers on this particular flight were problematic, the crew did great handling such people.

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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.
14/12Sat
directAirAsia
4h 40mPVG-BKI
16/12Mon
directAirAsia
4h 30mBKI-PVG
RM 744
1/12Sun
directAirAsia
3h 10mCAN-BKI
8/12Sun
directAirAsia
3h 15mBKI-CAN
RM 753
2/12Mon
1 stop
24h 45mCAN-BKI
8/12Sun
direct
3h 15mBKI-CAN
RM 818
3/3Mon
direct
4h 40mPVG-BKI
9/3Sun
1 stop
25h 40mBKI-PVG
RM 888
4/3Tue
1 stopChina Southern
21h 35mPVG-BKI
9/3Sun
1 stopChina Southern
26h 30mBKI-PVG
RM 993
24/12Tue
1 stopChina Southern
11h 05mPVG-BKI
31/12Tue
1 stopChina Southern
13h 15mBKI-PVG
RM 1,072
24/12Tue
directChina Eastern
4h 30mPVG-BKI
30/12Mon
directChina Eastern
4h 30mBKI-PVG
RM 1,085
4/12Wed
1 stopChina Eastern
10h 00mPEK-BKI
9/12Mon
1 stopChina Eastern
22h 20mBKI-PEK
RM 1,199
22/3Sat
1 stopMalaysia Airlines
10h 00mPVG-BKI
1/4Tue
1 stopMalaysia Airlines
10h 20mBKI-PVG
RM 1,313
22/3Sat
1 stopMalaysia Airlines
10h 00mPVG-BKI
26/3Wed
1 stopMalaysia Airlines
10h 25mBKI-PVG
RM 1,549

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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.
22/11Fri
directAirAsia
3h 10mSZX-BKI
RM 337
4/12Wed
directAirAsia
4h 05mWUH-BKI
RM 341
7/12Sat
1 stopXiamenAir
19h 40mWUH-BKI
RM 455
15/1Wed
1 stopXiamenAir
22h 25mWUH-BKI
RM 460
10/12Tue
1 stopScoot
18h 35mWUH-BKI
RM 499
3/12Tue
1 stopScoot
18h 35mWUH-BKI
RM 503
14/11Thu
1 stopBatik Air
21h 20mCAN-BKI
RM 530
29/11Fri
1 stopChina Eastern
10h 00mPEK-BKI
RM 543
13/11Wed
1 stopBatik Air
21h 20mCAN-BKI
RM 547
23/11Sat
1 stopChina Eastern
29h 20mSZX-BKI
RM 569

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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.
4/11Mon
direct
3h 30mCAN-BKI
4/11Mon
direct
3h 15mBKI-CAN
RM 1,278
4/11Mon
direct
3h 30mCAN-BKI
4/11Mon
multi-stop
27h 25mBKI-CAN
RM 1,558
7/11Thu
multi-stop
13h 45mPEK-BKI
8/11Fri
multi-stop
20h 10mBKI-PEK
RM 1,593
4/11Mon
direct
3h 30mCAN-BKI
4/11Mon
multi-stop
28h 10mBKI-CAN
RM 1,611
4/11Mon
multi-stop
11h 30mCAN-BKI
4/11Mon
multi-stop
16h 35mBKI-CAN
RM 1,983
7/11Thu
multi-stop
11h 50mPEK-BKI
7/11Thu
multi-stop
11h 30mBKI-PEK
RM 2,381
6/11Wed
multi-stop
21h 00mPEK-BKI
7/11Thu
multi-stop
11h 30mBKI-PEK
RM 2,394
6/11Wed
multi-stop
21h 00mPEK-BKI
8/11Fri
multi-stop
20h 05mBKI-PEK
RM 3,173
7/11Thu
multi-stop
10h 45mPEK-BKI
8/11Fri
multi-stop
14h 25mBKI-PEK
RM 8,307
7/11Thu
multi-stop
14h 55mPEK-BKI
8/11Fri
multi-stop
14h 40mBKI-PEK
RM 10,245

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