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$672 Find cheap flights to Kota Kinabalu

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Cheap flight deals to Kota Kinabalu

Here are some of the best deals found on KAYAK recently from the most popular airlines for round-trip flights to Kota Kinabalu 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.
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06:15 - 08:25AKL-BKI
30h 10m3 stops
23:15 - 05:30BKI-AKL
26h 15m3 stops
$1,126
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Mon, 27 May - Mon, 3 Jun
06:15 - 17:00AKL-BKI
38h 45m3 stops
06:00 - 05:30BKI-AKL
19h 30m2 stops
$1,225
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Mon, 27 May - Mon, 3 Jun
21:00 - 00:30AKL-BKI
31h 30m1 stop
01:30 - 15:45BKI-AKL
34h 15m1 stop
$1,247China Eastern
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Mon, 27 May - Sun, 2 Jun
21:25 - 18:20AKL-BKI
24h 55m1 stop
09:50 - 15:35BKI-AKL
25h 45m2 stops
$1,374
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Mon, 27 May - Mon, 3 Jun
21:25 - 21:00AKL-BKI
27h 35m2 stops
11:30 - 15:35BKI-AKL
24h 05m2 stops
$1,388
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Mon, 27 May - Mon, 3 Jun
13:00 - 09:15AKL-BKI
24h 15m1 stop
19:05 - 22:50BKI-AKL
23h 45m1 stop
$1,472Malaysia Airlines
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Mon, 27 May - Mon, 3 Jun
10:40 - 18:20AKL-BKI
35h 40m3 stops
01:30 - 15:45BKI-AKL
34h 15m1 stop
$1,532
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Mon, 27 May - Sun, 2 Jun
06:15 - 11:20AKL-BKI
33h 05m2 stops
01:30 - 15:45BKI-AKL
34h 15m1 stop
$1,623
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Mon, 27 May - Sun, 2 Jun
00:25 - 11:55AKL-BKI
15h 30m1 stop
09:50 - 11:25BKI-AKL
21h 35m1 stop
$1,762Malaysia Airlines
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Sat, 18 May - Tue, 21 May
13:15 - 21:00AKL-BKI
35h 45m2 stops
05:20 - 11:25BKI-AKL
26h 05m1 stop
$9,323Qatar Airways
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Sun, 19 May - Tue, 21 May

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 Wednesday where tickets can be as cheap as $1,711. On the other hand, the most expensive day to fly is Saturday, where prices are $1,948 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 October, where tickets cost $1,613 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 New Zealand is $2,799 and $2,137 respectively. For return trips, the best month to travel is October with an average price of $1,613.

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 in the morning, when flights cost $1,367 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 $1,764.

How long is the flight to Kota Kinabalu?

The duration of your flight to Kota Kinabalu depends on your departure and arrival airports. Obviously any flights that include a layover will also be longer. The most popular route to Kota Kinabalu on KAYAK is from Auckland, which takes 38h 25m.

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Low season

October

High season

April

Cheapest flight

$672
Best time to beat the crowds (17% less expensive on average)
Most popular time to fly and prices are also 5% lower on average.
Flight from Auckland to Kota Kinabalu

When to book flights to Kota Kinabalu

Are your dates flexible? Find out the best times to travel to Kota Kinabalu based on our flight data from the last year. Discover the cheapest month and even day to fly.
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FAQs - booking Kota Kinabalu flights

  • How far is Kota Kinabalu from central Kota Kinabalu?

    There are 6 km between Kota Kinabalu city centre and Kota Kinabalu.

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

    When flying to Kota Kinabalu, you'll arrive at Kota Kinabalu (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.

  • Which airline offers the most flights to Kota Kinabalu?

    Of the 5 airlines that fly to Kota Kinabalu, AirAsia offers the most flights, with around 229 per week, followed by Malaysia Airlines with 148 flights per week.

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

Direct departures

New Zealand to Kota Kinabalu

Monday

AirAsia, AirAsia X, Batik Air, +21 more

AirAsia, AirAsia X, +22 more

Tuesday

AirAsia, AirAsia X, Batik Air, +21 more

AirAsia, AirAsia X, +22 more

Wednesday

Air Busan, AirAsia, AirAsia X, +22 more

Air Busan, AirAsia, +23 more

Thursday

AirAsia, AirAsia X, Batik Air, +22 more

AirAsia, AirAsia X, +23 more

Friday

AirAsia, AirAsia X, Batik Air, +20 more

AirAsia, AirAsia X, +21 more

Saturday

Air Busan, AirAsia, AirAsia X, +24 more

Air Busan, AirAsia, +25 more

Sunday

AirAsia, AirAsia X, Batik Air, +20 more

AirAsia, AirAsia X, +21 more

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Direct returns

Kota Kinabalu to New Zealand

Monday

AirAsia, AirAsia X, Batik Air, +21 more

AirAsia, AirAsia X, +22 more

Tuesday

AirAsia, AirAsia X, Batik Air, +21 more

AirAsia, AirAsia X, +22 more

Wednesday

Air Busan, AirAsia, AirAsia X, +22 more

Air Busan, AirAsia, +23 more

Thursday

AirAsia, AirAsia X, Batik Air, +22 more

AirAsia, AirAsia X, +23 more

Friday

AirAsia, AirAsia X, Batik Air, +20 more

AirAsia, AirAsia X, +21 more

Saturday

Air Busan, AirAsia, AirAsia X, +24 more

Air Busan, AirAsia, +25 more

Sunday

AirAsia, AirAsia X, Batik Air, +20 more

AirAsia, AirAsia X, +21 more

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Top 3 airlines flying 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 New Zealand 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.
8.2
Singapore AirlinesOverall score based on 1479 reviews
8.1comfort
8.7crew
7.8food
8.2entertainment
8.4boarding
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Good flight. Fiod was ready a bit late hence a hurry to finish before landing. Excellent crew and service

10.0 ExcellentYM, Apr 2024SIN - KUL
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Good flight. Fiod was ready a bit late hence a hurry to finish before landing. Excellent crew and service

Good flight. The food was served a bit late, hence a hurry to finish before landing. Excellent crew and service

I commend the flight attendants on our SFO-SIN flight who went above and beyond to provide us with extra snacks and food. This type of service makes the flight experience personal and awesome.

They made me check my carry on even though there was room We un boarded in a strange way but overall it was good

Every thing was fine. Some ild classical Hindi movies should be add

A pc of cake or biscuit at least. The airport was like a maze need to take another bus to the main terminal to immigration.

Perfect experience from boarding through to leaving the flight, comfortable and personalised service from all staff, highly recommended

They are great with every aspect of customer service. Helped my elderly father and aided him with using the restroom.

The overall operation needs to be improved. The in-flight services took forever and sometimes ran out of options.

Would have been nice to have more variety and less dairy in the Indian Vegetarian special meal. Why do they include Parathas as part of the entree and also on the side (substitute for bread/roll)? Also, no need for so much dairy...don't need milk packet, yogurt and Chobani Greek yogurt in the same meal.

We bought the business class tickets. The check-in staff and onboard crew were excellent, providing commendable service throughout. However, it was disappointing to find that China Southern Airlines does not have a lounge at SFO. Instead, passengers were provided with a $35 per person food voucher, which fell short of expectations. Furthermore, the quality of the onboard food left much to be desired, marking a significant decline compared to our previous flight experience in 2019, prior to the pandemic.

Wuhan - Dubai. Old plane: 1. Only USB charger. No power outlet to plug in.. 2. Super narrow seat layout 3. Toilet cover consistently fell down and hit my back when sitting on it.. :( 4. Entertainment system touch screen not sensitive, and need to press hard or use finger tips to hit. Crew were very nice and accommodating though.

1. I got very poor check in experience with the counter lady . This is the first airline I ever experienced that no combine check in weight allow . Even we have 4 of us but weight counter by piece . So we wasted lot of time argue and repack . This is super crazy 2. Next I left my Samsung tablet on the plane . And I started to escalate and finally spoke to southern airline lost and found in Malaysia and the amazing answer she give is : system nothing found and please try to call southern airline in china 🧐 . I have been flying many other airlines but this is my first encounterment with such irresponsible airline response and no empathy given to customer . My feeling is nobody bother whether how customer like me feel and I’m just too small for the management to take note .

No red vine, no whiskey, no vodka. No that I wanted all of them at once but still...

No good but was short flight. Both of our China Southern flights were on time. No surprises.

The flight was okay it was the kayak customer service that was poor, I have been trying to change my name on my flight ticket 3 days before my flight and nothing got done about it even tho I messaged so many times and phoned, all I got in return was that is was being processed and still to this day nothing has been done about it, I think it’s disgusting and un needed stress to the trip.

Quality flight from start to finish. Customer service is evidently very important to this company. The staff really exceeded expectations.

Traveling with the Chinese airlines , their service superior to the US Airlines , they are much more friendly and the seats are comfortable , In the past I flew with United , now ,United Airline will become history for me .

Pros: "see SH to GZ prior flight. The same."
Cons: "Same problems. Get KFC or McDonalds to cater. No one enjoys the airline's food which I suspect is prepared on a very small budget. Even a sandwich with a pre-packaged drink would elevate the foodservice."
Pros: "No..no redeeming features.."
Cons: "Coffee was the worst I've ever had. The 2+1 powdered mil and coffee stick. Truly awful. But i suppose there aren't many people on the flight who would order coffee..I would even pay extra for a coffee if they had a quality option. Food is comparable to a school canteen. I would probably pay 20rmb for this in Shanghai. Frozen butter for the half-frozen bread. They really couldn't do worse..."

chaos boarding. Crew in business class seemed short staffed and lacking in attention to details initially, but did improve during flight.

The cabin was quite noisy as there were lots of children travelling for the school holidays. Found the selection of movies limited.

The best so far coz this time it was all male steward on the economy cluster. They were polite, efficient & genuinely courteous. They do not judge you when you ask for more food & peanuts.

Delayed for 45 minutes. Don't know what's the issue. Other than that, food was not to my satisfaction. However it's okay.

My first course flight (Aor-Kul) was cancelled in the morning, and they asked me to board the night flight hence I need to transit overnight for the 2nd flight (Kul-Myy) that supposed to be on the same day. The overnight stay was not provided, (I'm traveling with my spouse, a daughter (5 y.o.) and an infant (2 months old). Hence I booked Sama Sama Hotel at my own expense (fortunately using my enrich miles points). Other than this issue, all services is good.

My experience with the flight was okay. My experience checking in was absolutely terrible. I was told I needed to change my e-ticket number to check in because I missed my flight in PDX. Even when shown the itinerary, they didn't budge and sent me to KLM across the airport. KLM wasn't open until 8pm and my flight was at 7:30pm. Nobody made accommodations in any way to get me to KUL. To add insult to injury, they rescheduled my flight to the very next day, creating a very long layover and did not offer any hotel stay. After this, even worse, I found out later they delayed the first 7:30pm flight to 9:10pm. Meaning, I could have still boarded but they refused to even try to get me on the plane. As a result, I missed a day of work and lost pay for the day. Also, when I went to get my luggage, it wasn't there. It was STILL in Singapore. They had from 5:30pm to 5am to get my luggage onto the plane and they still couldn't get that right. This is the worst experience I've had flying anywhere in the past decade I've been travelling.

Orange juice change to mineral water . Should keep the orange juice.

Entertainment system was too old, crew were unorganised during boarding

No recognition for one World Emerald member. Business class seat has flat bed

No recognition for one World Emerald member. I got row 1 in business class and it was pathetic. No leg space, cramped space, less recline

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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.
27/5Mon
3 stops
30h 10mAKL-BKI
3/6Mon
3 stops
26h 15mBKI-AKL
$1,126
27/5Mon
3 stops
38h 45mAKL-BKI
3/6Mon
2 stops
19h 30mBKI-AKL
$1,225
27/5Mon
1 stopChina Eastern
31h 30mAKL-BKI
2/6Sun
1 stopChina Eastern
34h 15mBKI-AKL
$1,247
27/5Mon
1 stop
24h 55mAKL-BKI
3/6Mon
2 stops
25h 45mBKI-AKL
$1,374
27/5Mon
2 stops
27h 35mAKL-BKI
3/6Mon
2 stops
24h 05mBKI-AKL
$1,388
27/5Mon
1 stopMalaysia Airlines
24h 15mAKL-BKI
3/6Mon
1 stopMalaysia Airlines
23h 45mBKI-AKL
$1,472
27/5Mon
3 stops
35h 40mAKL-BKI
2/6Sun
1 stop
34h 15mBKI-AKL
$1,532
27/5Mon
2 stops
33h 05mAKL-BKI
2/6Sun
1 stop
34h 15mBKI-AKL
$1,623
18/5Sat
1 stopMalaysia Airlines
15h 30mAKL-BKI
21/5Tue
1 stopMalaysia Airlines
21h 35mBKI-AKL
$1,762
19/5Sun
2 stopsQatar Airways
35h 45mAKL-BKI
21/5Tue
1 stopQatar Airways
26h 05mBKI-AKL
$9,323

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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.
18/6Tue
2 stops
33h 40mAKL-BKI
$672
18/6Tue
3 stops
45h 50mAKL-BKI
$685
18/6Tue
1 stopChina Eastern
31h 30mAKL-BKI
$848
17/6Mon
1 stopMalaysia Airlines
17h 50mAKL-BKI
$978
17/6Mon
2 stopsMalaysia Airlines
24h 00mAKL-BKI
$2,038

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Recent domestic flight deals

10/5Fri
directMalaysia Airlines
0h 45mSDK-BKI
17/5Fri
directMalaysia Airlines
0h 45mBKI-SDK
$102
9/5Thu
directMalaysia Airlines
0h 50mTWU-BKI
12/5Sun
directMalaysia Airlines
0h 55mBKI-TWU
$116
26/6Wed
directMalaysia Airlines
2h 45mKUL-BKI
29/6Sat
directMalaysia Airlines
2h 35mBKI-KUL
$128
18/8Sun
directMalaysia Airlines
2h 40mKUL-BKI
22/8Thu
directMalaysia Airlines
2h 40mBKI-KUL
$143
30/7Tue
directMalaysia Airlines
1h 30mKCH-BKI
1/8Thu
directMalaysia Airlines
1h 25mBKI-KCH
$146
10/5Fri
directMalaysia Airlines
0h 45mSDK-BKI
17/5Fri
multi-stopMalaysia Airlines
5h 40mBKI-SDK
$156
31/8Sat
multi-stopMalaysia Airlines
4h 55mJHB-BKI
7/9Sat
multi-stopMalaysia Airlines
5h 10mBKI-JHB
$158
29/7Mon
multi-stopMalaysia Airlines
7h 50mMYY-BKI
1/8Thu
multi-stopMalaysia Airlines
3h 40mBKI-MYY
$160
8/5Wed
multi-stopBatik Air
10h 30mPEN-BKI
9/5Thu
multi-stopBatik Air
7h 40mBKI-PEN
$218
8/5Wed
multi-stopBatik Air
10h 30mPEN-BKI
9/5Thu
multi-stopBatik Air
6h 15mBKI-PEN
$237

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Flights to Kota Kinabalu

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Kota Kinabalu (BKI)Malaysia

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