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Cheap Flight Deals from Detroit to Shanghai (DTW-SHA)

 
Here are some of the best deals found on KAYAK recently from the most popular airlines for round-trip flights from Detroit to Shanghai that are departing in the next months. While these flights were available on KAYAK in the last 72 hours, prices and availability are subject to change and deals may expire.

Recent round-trip flight deals from Detroit to Shanghai

Recommended round-trip deals departing in the coming months from the most popular airlines that fly from Detroit to Shanghai.
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10:59 am - 10:35 amDTW-SHA
35h 36m2 stops
2:10 pm - 5:14 amSHA-DTW
27h 04m2 stops
Thu, Mar 20 - Thu, Apr 3
11:45 am - 9:55 amDTW-SHA
33h 10m2 stops
2:45 pm - 5:14 amSHA-DTW
26h 29m2 stops
Fri, Mar 7 - Thu, Mar 20
11:45 am - 9:55 amDTW-SHA
33h 10m2 stops
2:45 pm - 10:56 amSHA-DTW
32h 11m3 stops
Fri, Mar 7 - Thu, Mar 20
9:10 pm - 5:10 pmDTW-PVG
32h 00m1 stop
10:25 pm - 7:00 pmPVG-DTW
32h 35m1 stop
$1,021Turkish Airlines
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Wed, Mar 12 - Tue, May 13
9:10 pm - 5:10 pmDTW-PVG
32h 00m1 stop
11:00 pm - 7:15 pmPVG-DTW
32h 15m1 stop
$1,046Turkish Airlines
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Tue, Mar 18 - Tue, Mar 25
5:10 am - 4:10 pmDTW-PVG
23h 00m1 stop
5:00 pm - 4:45 pmPVG-DTW
35h 45m1 stop
$1,177American Airlines
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Thu, Mar 20 - Thu, Apr 3
5:10 am - 4:10 pmDTW-PVG
23h 00m1 stop
5:00 pm - 10:41 amPVG-DTW
29h 41m2 stops
$1,184American Airlines
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Thu, Mar 27 - Tue, Apr 29
8:30 am - 3:25 pmDTW-PVG
18h 55m1 stop
3:45 pm - 5:35 pmPVG-DTW
13h 50mnonstop
$1,199Delta
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Wed, Apr 9 - Wed, Apr 23
11:00 am - 1:45 pmDTW-PVG
14h 45mnonstop
3:45 pm - 5:35 pmPVG-DTW
13h 50mnonstop
$1,203Delta
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Mon, Apr 28 - Sat, May 17
8:30 pm - 5:45 pmDTW-PVG
32h 15m1 stop
1:10 pm - 7:25 pmPVG-DTW
19h 15m1 stop
$1,259China Eastern
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Mon, Feb 24 - Wed, Mar 5

Flights from Detroit to Shanghai - Travel Insights & Trends

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

What is the cheapest Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport to Shanghai flight route?

The cheapest price for flight routes found by users searching on KAYAK in the last 2 weeks for round-trip flights from Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport to Shanghai.
Our data shows that the cheapest route for a return flight from Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport to Shanghai cost $1,109 and was between Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport (DTW) and Shanghai Pu Dong Airport (PVG). On average, the best prices are found if you fly this route. The average price for a return flight for this route is $1,109.

What’s the cheapest day of the week to fly from Detroit to Shanghai?

The average price of all round-trip flights from Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport to Shanghai clicked on KAYAK for each day over the last 12 months.
When flying from Detroit to Shanghai, you should consider leaving on a Tuesday and avoid Mondays if you are looking for the best rates. For your return to Detroit, you’ll find the best rates on Wednesdays and the most expensive ones on Tuesdays.

What is the cheapest month to fly from Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport to Shanghai?

To calculate monthly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each month over the last year for round-trip flights from Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport to Shanghai, 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 from Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport to Shanghai is October, where tickets cost $1,329 (return) on average. On the other hand, the most expensive months are August and July, where the average cost of round-trip tickets is $2,525 and $2,220 respectively.

How far in advance should I book a flight from Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport to Shanghai?

To calculate weekly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each week before departure over the last year for round-trip flights from Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport to Shanghai, removes the top 0.1% to account for outliers, and then takes the average of all the values for each week.
To get a below average price on the flight from Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport to Shanghai, you should book around 3 weeks before departure. For the absolute cheapest price, our data suggests you should book 24 weeks before departure.

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Cheapest flight

$445
Flight from Detroit to Shanghai Pudong Airport

When to book flights from Detroit to Shanghai

Are your dates flexible? Find out the best times to travel from Detroit to Shanghai based on our flight data from the last year. Discover the cheapest month and even day to fly.
Estimated round-trip price
KAYAK looks at all historical flight data for each date to provide a predicted price for one-way trips or round-trips with a duration up to 40 days. While we try to provide actual minimum prices for each date, some prices are predictions and actual prices may differ.

FAQs for booking Detroit to Shanghai flights

  • What is the cheapest flight from Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport to Shanghai?

    In the last 3 days, the lowest price for a flight from Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport to Shanghai was $445 for a one-way ticket and $939 for a round-trip.

  • Do I need a passport to fly between Detroit and Shanghai?

    Yes, you’ll need a passport to travel to Shanghai from Detroit.

  • Which aircraft models fly most regularly from Detroit to Shanghai?

    We unfortunately don’t have that data for this specific route.

  • Which airline alliances offer flights from Detroit to Shanghai?

    oneworld, SkyTeam, and Star Alliance are the airline alliances operating flights between Detroit and Shanghai, with oneworld being the most commonly used for this route.

  • How does KAYAK find such low prices on flights from Detroit to Shanghai?

    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 from Detroit to Shanghai.

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

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

  • What is the Hacker Fare option on flights from Detroit to Shanghai?

    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 Shanghai with an airline and back to Detroit with another airline.

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

    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 Shanghai from Detroit up to 3 days before/after your preferred dates. You can then pick the flights that suit you best.

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Prefer to fly direct from Detroit to Shanghai?

Find which airlines fly direct from Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport to Shanghai, which days they fly and book direct flights.

Direct departures

Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County to Shanghai

Monday

China Eastern, Delta

China Eastern, Delta

Tuesday

China Eastern, Delta

China Eastern, Delta

Wednesday

China Eastern, Delta

China Eastern, Delta

Thursday

China Eastern, Delta

China Eastern, Delta

Friday

China Eastern, Delta

China Eastern, Delta

Saturday

China Eastern, Delta

China Eastern, Delta

Sunday

China Eastern, Delta

China Eastern, Delta

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Direct returns

Shanghai to Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County

Monday

China Eastern, Delta

China Eastern, Delta

Tuesday

China Eastern, Delta

China Eastern, Delta

Wednesday

China Eastern, Delta

China Eastern, Delta

Thursday

China Eastern, Delta

China Eastern, Delta

Friday

China Eastern, Delta

China Eastern, Delta

Saturday

China Eastern, Delta

China Eastern, Delta

Sunday

China Eastern, Delta

China Eastern, Delta

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Top 5 airlines serving from Detroit to Shanghai

 
See real verified KAYAK customer reviews for airlines flying from Detroit to Shanghai. Airline scores are aggregated from all reviews left by passengers on KAYAK after flying with an airline. KAYAK doesn’t show reviews that are older than 5 years. Learn how KAYAK collects reviews.
Need help choosing which airline to fly with from Detroit to Shanghai? 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.
8.4
ANAOverall score based on 844 reviews
7.9Entertainment
7.7Food
8.2Comfort
8.7Crew
8.6Boarding
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Wonderfully pleasant experience. Good meal and beverage selections. Professional air staff.

10.0 ExcellentAnonymous, Jan 2025ORD - HND
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Wonderfully pleasant experience. Good meal and beverage selections. Professional air staff.

Seat width can be a bit wider. not nice that they charge extra for the window seats. online check in can be greatly improved. in other words, their online interface is bad.

Seats were comfortable with excellent legroom. Meals were also quite good. The cabin crew were excellent and very helpful. The check-in experience was also very smooth.

Seats had more space than expected. No recline, that is good.

Everything was excellent except for the hot cabin during the two trips. Why would you keep the cabins cool hot?

The ehole fliht went smoothly. No delays. Bur the food was not good.

Wonderful. I love ANA airlines. It's the best so far. My first pick when I travel now.

Loved that leg room was great for economy, and food was definitely better than other American airlines, great selection of movies. My mom is happy.

Just okay. Staff is accomodating especially at the check in counter and gate. Boarding was just fine. Leg room was cramped at economy. No entertainment, wifi is so-so. Cola in can given by cup, but rest of can was not given. At least give the whole can.

What I noticed is that when customers or passengers are asleep, they are no longer given food.

Great service. Great staff. Boarding was a little slow, but I think there was a service dog slowing things down.

Flight left early and arrived early. the whole trip was excellent.

Seats were really tight and the seat belts did not give enough slack.

I like in St George and prefer to fly out of CDC than SGU. Hopefully, they will continue the flights out of Cedar

Broken jer bridge. Poor communication about it. Lost 2 of 4 luggage pieces

Overall, it was okay. Seat was a little cramped. Would’ve liked more substantial snacks or opportunity to buy some.

Newer plane, relatively easy boarding, not a full flight and was told that we could not be moved up because of weight and balance issues. Otherwise, a very good experience.

Other then mechanical/ computer problem and 3.5 hours flight delay the flight was great. I guess that what happened when you fly an old airplane now a day.

All fine save for the abominable catering. Really gone downhill. We found it all inedible.

I appreciated friendly service from check-in, to boarding, to in-flight amenities! Attendants were accommodating and helpful. Thank you! Elaine

Cleanliness of seats, trays, storage pockets need more attention, but everything else was good.

A great airline, no complaints at all. My experience with Cheap Tickets was very disappointing however. Two hours after purchasing the flight they called to tell me that the ticket price had gone up. I’ve never heard of such a thing. That is called false advertising; I will never use this ticketing service again and will warn all friends to never use it.

One of the worst check in process at the DIA as well as the boarding counter Changed seat at the last minute and assigned middle seat while I paid for window seat. Requested many times but to no avail . horrible customer service and very poor process Requesting refund for seat that was changed last minute

Good overall flight. Excellent crew. Food options could be improved.

Vegan food tasted good. Restroom could be kept cleaner. Seat tray table was a bit tilted so food tray kept sliding down a bit. Flight crew can be a little more friendly, caring and approachable. Their faces lacked smiles and tone was stern.

Flight was delayed then we had to redirect for medical emergency during which time we had no information on what is the plan. The connecting flight was also delayed.

Professional & courteous cabin crew. Food was very good even in economy class

7 stars hospitality and an excellent service by the Turkish Airline entire team. Somehow, our membership numbers for mileage points were not indicated on our boarding passes issued at O’Hare Airport by the Turkish Airlines check in desk. During transit in Istanbul, I brought to attention of customer service Turkish Airlines. Please have our mileage points posted to our membership account from O’Hare Chicago to Lahore for both my wife Kaukab Shirazi Thank you

Terrible boarding experience, with an incomprehensible assignment of priorities. “Fast track” was the slowest. Poor system planning.

Terrible boarding process, no proper line maintained even for business class, crews are not very attentive, business class food quality / variety / quantity have gone down, everything has become cheap.

This was a pleasant, short flight and the crew was friendly.

Very poor. Our special services attendant gave us incorrect information. I also was mishandled at landing. There was no wheelchair waiting. I fell deboarding the plane. Appalling!

It was good. It’s been a long time since my wife and I fly any where and things have changed. Our trip was to see our new grandson. We fly economy and that was not good for my bad back. It was a quick flight but uncomfortable.

I paid for what I got which was cheap, I brought my own entertainment. I knew what to expect, so I could be prepared. If you’re flying economy, check in early like me. I have no problems with my flight, was on time, staff were friendly, and overall good experience.

Boarded over an hour late, no communication, the sign just changed, no attendant to answer questions - she disappeared forever (hiding). Small plane and couldn’t hear the overhead nor understand.

Service in first class no longer exists on American Airlines .

Customer service in first class does not exist on American Airlines

I never have a good experience with American and this was no different. The airplane was INCREDIBLY hot. Like unbearably so. Everyone was fanning themselves with pamphlets and sweating. When someone asked the flight attendant to turn down the temperature they were told there was nothing the crew could do. Once we pushed back from the gate we then had to wait an hour to take off and the communication from the crew was not good. People were getting up this whole time and a man was even in the bathroom when we took off. Once we landed at our destination we waited another 30 minutes at the gate to deplane with, again, no communication from the crew as to what was going on.

Flight was delayed due to a steering issue with plane. The delay caused me to miss the connecting flight. The delay caused me to spend an extra 21 hours in airports and flights to get to my destination. The plane issue obviously should have been found and fixed before we even boarded. Ridiculous.

First, to be fair, the flight was on time and the trip through the air was relatively smooth. But the flight was full, and they were checking carryons. As this process went on, the crew got increasingly rude and overbearing. During the drink service, a young girl (maybe 9) who had gotten up to use the lavatory got stuck behind the cart. At some point, she started feeling fearful and overwhelmed. Passengers noticed this and asked the crew to let her return to her seat. They refused. Then she started crying, and they still refused to move the cart forward to let her sit. The poor girl was trying to be brave and compose herself. The crew handled the situation terribly and with zero grace or decency. That episode, to me, encapsulates AA’s attitude toward its passengers. Disgraceful. The plane itself was cramped and miserable, as usual. There was zero inflight media or entertainment, other than the lane and borderline inappropriate jokes the steward made during the safety briefing. Then, of course, it took the better part of an hour for the checked bags to show up at the carousel. AA is no better than the el cheapo airlines these days and a far, far cry from its former self.

Delay in off-boarding due to customs at SFO... pilot announcement should have come earlier so passengers don't clog aisles.

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.

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