The sector is held by Cebu Pacific Air, China Eastern Airlines, Juneyao Airlines and Philippine Airlines.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
MNL Manila to PVG Shanghai
Ninoy Aquino International, the Philippines, to Pudong International, China. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 3.1 times a day
- Great circle
- 1,851 km
- Block, estimated
- 2h 52m
- Door to door
- 9h 37m
What MNL to PVG looks like
The MNL to PVG sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Manila MNL to Shanghai PVG is a medium haul sector of 1,851 km by great circle, flown nonstop 3.1 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 1,851 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 2h 52m.
Manila MNL is a mid sized airport in the network held here, 80 scheduled destinations and 426.8 departures a day. Shanghai PVG has 206 destinations and 786.7 departures a day.
Manila and Shanghai keep the same clock all year, so the arrival time is the departure time plus the block and nothing else.
The pair sits inside Asia Pacific, a corridor where the site already publishes 16 written lanes that go into customs and ground detail this page does not.
Who flies the sector, and how often
Average daily frequencies on MNL to PVG from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| MNL to PVG | 3.14 | 22 | Cebu Pacific Air, China Eastern Airlines, Juneyao Airlines, Philippine Airlines |
| PVG to MNL | 3.14 | 22 | Cebu Pacific Air, China Eastern Airlines, Juneyao Airlines, Philippine Airlines |
4 carriers are recorded on the sector, so a missed departure is normally a rebooking rather than a lost day.
At 3.1 times a day there is usually another departure within a few hours, which is what makes a same day booking on this pair realistic.
Between them the two directions put about 44 departures a week on MNL to PVG, which is the number that decides whether a seat can be found today or on Thursday.
The clock from collection to signature
The same ground timings the route calculator starts from, applied to the 2h 52m block time on MNL to PVG. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to MNL | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At MNL before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| MNL to PVG in the air, estimated | 172 min | 7h 22m |
| Formalities at PVG | 90 min | 8h 52m |
| Delivery run in Shanghai | 45 min | 9h 37m |
| Door to door | 577 min | 9h 37m |
On the desk standard ground timings, ninety minutes to collect and reach the airport, three hours at the airport before departure, ninety minutes of arrival formalities and a forty five minute delivery run, the door to door figure for MNL to PVG is 9h 37m.
A courier who leaves Manila at 09:00 local is on the ground in Shanghai at about 11:52 local and at the door by 14:07 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Shanghai, the last useful departure from Manila is around 12:53 local.
When the nonstop does not work
Every airport that joins the two ends, ranked by when they land, among the ones whose weaker leg is dependable enough to plan on. Connection time is allowed for the size of the hub. 41 of them join MNL to PVG.
| Connecting at | MNL to hub, flights a day | Hub to PVG, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kaohsiung KHH | 1.86 | 2.29 | 1,863 | 4h 23m |
| Xiamen XMN | 3.29 | 3 | 1,974 | 4h 32m |
| Taipei TPE | 13.14 | 11.29 | 1,852 | 4h 45m |
| Macau MFM | 2.29 | 4.14 | 2,446 | 5h 08m |
| Hong Kong HKG | 17 | 23.14 | 2,402 | 5h 19m |
| Shenzhen SZX | 1.29 | 17.86 | 2,413 | 5h 19m |
With 3.1 times a day on the nonstop, a connection here is a disruption plan rather than a routing, and it is listed because a closed runway or a cancellation wave is exactly when nobody has time to work it out.
41 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Kaohsiung KHH, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about once a day.
Through KHH the routing covers 1,863 km against the 1,851 km nonstop track and takes about 4h 23m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 60 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is only 1h 31m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Xiamen XMN at 4h 32m and Taipei TPE at 4h 45m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Shanghai, Shanghai SHA is 45 km away by great circle and carries 60 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Restricted hours at either end
Widely documented operating restrictions, checked 2026-09-07. Exemptions and seasonal variations exist, so confirm with the carrier before relying on any of them.
Shanghai PVG, night operations: Operates around the clock.
Plan Manila to Shanghai yourself
The same tool the dispatchers use, open to anybody and free. It is loaded with this pair already. Change either end, add a stopover or a preferred airline, and it works out the connection, the transit and the door to door clock, with the real departures underneath. Put it on your own site if it is useful to you.
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Where this came from, and where to look next
- Carriers and frequencies: AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics, retrieved 2026-09-07. Average daily flights, not a timetable.
- Distances: great circle from published coordinates. They read short against a flown track, which is why the block time above applies a factor to them.
- Block and connection times: the same model the route calculator lower down this page runs, at the same rounding.
- Restrictions: the airport notes file, checked 2026-09-07.
- Industrial sites: public company information. Nothing here says or implies that any company named is a customer of any courier operator.
Who publishes this. OnBoard Courier is a placement desk in Dubai. An assignment is carried out by a vetted partner operator, with the desk as the single point of contact from the quote to the signature. This page exists because our own dispatchers need the answer for MNL to PVG in the twenty minutes before a promise is made, and a reference only one operator can read is not a reference. Free to read, quote and cite. Found an error? Tell us and we will correct it.
If you need something moved rather than looked up, the desk prices a hand carry in fifteen minutes.
- The MNL airport entry
- The PVG airport entry
- Hand carry into the Philippines
- Hand carry into China
- The written lane, Dubai to Manila
- The written lane, Abu Dhabi to Shanghai
- The written lane, Copenhagen to Shanghai
- The route calculator
More pairs through MNL and PVG: Manila to Singapore, Seoul to Manila, Taipei to Manila, Manila to Hong Kong, Manila to San Francisco, Manila to Abu Dhabi, Kuala Lumpur to Manila, Doha to Manila.