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Find cheap flights from Auckland to Colombo from $860

This is the cheapest one-way flight price found by a KAYAK user in the last 72 hours by searching for a flight from Auckland to Bandaranaike Intl departing on 7/6. 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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Cheap flight deals from Auckland to Bandaranaike Intl (AKL-CMB)

Here are some of the best deals found on KAYAK recently from the most popular airlines for round-trip flights from Auckland to Bandaranaike Intl 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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21:00 - 21:10AKL-CMB
30h 40m2 stops
20:30 - 15:45CMB-AKL
36h 45m1 stop
$1,387China Eastern
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lør., 15 juni - lør., 22 juni
06:15 - 21:55AKL-CMB
22h 10m2 stops
10:40 - 05:30CMB-AKL
36h 20m3 stops
$1,405
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man., 24 juni - tor., 8 aug.
20:00 - 22:25AKL-CMB
32h 55m1 stop
00:25 - 00:05CMB-AKL
17h 10m1 stop
$1,837SriLankan Airlines
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ons., 15 maj - lør., 18 maj
20:00 - 22:25AKL-CMB
32h 55m1 stop
00:25 - 00:05CMB-AKL
17h 10m1 stop
$1,854SriLankan Airlines
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ons., 15 maj - lør., 18 maj
00:25 - 22:55AKL-CMB
29h 00m1 stop
00:05 - 11:25CMB-AKL
28h 50m1 stop
$1,864Malaysia Airlines
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tir., 28 maj - tir., 4 juni
06:10 - 21:30AKL-CMB
21h 50m2 stops
12:15 - 14:10CMB-AKL
19h 25m2 stops
$1,888Qantas Airways
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man., 13 maj - man., 20 maj
06:10 - 21:30AKL-CMB
21h 50m2 stops
12:15 - 12:55CMB-AKL
18h 10m2 stops
$1,893Qantas Airways
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man., 29 juli - fre., 30 aug.
09:00 - 23:35AKL-CMB
21h 05m2 stops
00:50 - 12:20CMB-AKL
77h 00m1 stop
$1,952Singapore Airlines
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man., 29 juli - tor., 29 aug.
08:50 - 23:35AKL-CMB
21h 15m2 stops
00:50 - 13:55CMB-AKL
30h 35m2 stops
$2,006Singapore Airlines
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man., 29 juli - tor., 29 aug.
00:25 - 22:55AKL-CMB
29h 00m1 stop
00:05 - 22:50CMB-AKL
16h 15m1 stop
$2,187Malaysia Airlines
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tir., 21 maj - fre., 21 juni

Flights from Auckland to Bandaranaike Intl - Travel Insights & Trends

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

What’s the cheapest day of the week to fly from Auckland to Colombo?

The average price of all flights from Auckland to Colombo Bandaranaike Intl Airport clicked on KAYAK for each day over the last 12 months.
For Auckland to Colombo, Monday is the cheapest day to fly on average and Saturday is the most expensive. Flying from Colombo back to Auckland, the best deals are generally found on Sunday, with Thursday being the most expensive.

What is the cheapest month to fly from Auckland to Colombo Bandaranaike Intl Airport?

To calculate monthly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each month over the last year for flights from Auckland to Colombo Bandaranaike Intl Airport, 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 Auckland to Colombo Bandaranaike Intl Airport is October, where tickets cost $1,726 on average. On the other hand, the most expensive months are December and January, where the average cost of tickets is $2,939 and $2,781 respectively.

How far in advance should I book a flight from Auckland to Colombo Bandaranaike Intl Airport?

To calculate daily average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each day before departure over the last year for flights from Auckland to Colombo Bandaranaike Intl Airport, 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 on the flight from Auckland to Colombo Bandaranaike Intl Airport, you should book around 1 week before departure. For the absolute cheapest price, our data suggests you should book 88 days before departure.

Which airlines provide the cheapest flights from Auckland to Colombo?

The cheapest price for the route for each airline clicked by KAYAK users in the last 72 hours.
In the last 3 days, Malaysia Airlines offered the best one-way deal for that route, at $1,026. KAYAK users also found Auckland to Colombo return flights on China Eastern from $1,387 and on SriLankan Airlines from $1,837.

Good to know

Low season

October

High season

December

Cheapest flight

$860
Best time to beat the crowds (19% less expensive on average)
Most popular time to fly (38% more expensive on average)
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When to book flights from Auckland to Bandaranaike Intl

Are your dates flexible? Find out the best times to travel from Auckland to Bandaranaike Intl based on our flight data from the last year. Discover the cheapest month and even day to fly.
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FAQs for booking Auckland to Colombo flights

  • What is the cheapest flight from Auckland to Colombo Bandaranaike Intl Airport?

    In the last 3 days, the lowest price for a flight from Auckland to Colombo Bandaranaike Intl Airport was $510 for a one-way ticket and $822 for a return.

  • Which airports will I be using when flying from Auckland to Colombo?

    Auckland airport is called Auckland Intl and the only airport in Colombo is Colombo Bandaranaike Intl.

  • Which aircraft models fly most regularly from Auckland to Colombo?

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

  • Which airline alliances offer flights from Auckland to Colombo?

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

  • Which is the best airline for flights from Auckland to Colombo, Singapore Airlines or Emirates?

    The two airlines most popular with KAYAK users for flights from Auckland to Colombo are Singapore Airlines and Emirates. With an average price for the route of $2,396 and an overall rating of 8.2, Singapore Airlines is the most popular choice. Emirates is also a great choice for the route, with an average price of $2,325 and an overall rating of 8.1.

  • How does KAYAK find such low prices on flights from Auckland to Colombo?

    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 Auckland to Colombo.

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

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

  • What is the Hacker Fare option on flights from Auckland to Colombo?

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

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

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

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Top 5 airlines serving from Auckland to Bandaranaike Intl

 
See real verified KAYAK customer reviews for airlines flying from Auckland to Colombo. 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 Auckland to Bandaranaike Intl? 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
Air New ZealandOverall score based on 644 reviews
7.7Food
7.9Entertainment
8.1Comfort
8.4Boarding
8.8Crew
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Short flight so no entertainment, turbulence so no food service - overall flight as expected

8.0 ExcellentMichelle, Apr 2024NPL - AKL
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Short flight so no entertainment, turbulence so no food service - overall flight as expected

All was good, the only thing was it didn't run on time.

The staff and crew on board were excellent. Business class however, was very weird. I thought we would have individual pods, but the way it was set up was unexpected. Not very private and If you wanted to lay down, you had to have an entire bed made up for you by the crew, rather than how Delta one works where you could just lie down whenever you feel like it. It was a 16 hour flight. I chose not to have my bed made, and that turned out to be a good idea because everybody who had their bed made had to wait for the crew to roll up their mattresses. So strange!

Crew were pleasant, happy to be there and were a joy to be around. Entire operation was professional, well thought out and ran like a Swiss clock.

United flight from SFO to PDX was cancelled. I will ask for a refund. Had to book on Alaska

Good food and entertainment options. Great Staff that were all welcoming and caregiving.

Flight was canceled due to technical issue shortly before the check-in counters opened. Passengers were rebooked on a flight three days later. Request to be accommodated on Air Tahiti Nui could not be processed. Customer service sorted out the refund after calling and being put on hold for almost an hour.

Carring crew, nice ambiance of the cabin, comfortable beds, good food well served. We liked everything.

2 of the 6 economy toilets were out of order. Drinks were not offered often enough - you have to order on-screen, which is often unavailable. Snacks and Milo ran out very early. Crew was fine but I think there was a sticking issue

Flight attendants are always pleasant and helpful. Pilot kept us updated.

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

Great to have actual hot tastey meal on a flight. Well done

All in all the flight was good. Love the fact that for airline food it was piping hot

I requested an aisle seat and got a middle seat The flight gate was changed and the flight was delayed

Cabin Crew always friendly and helpful. Seating cramped - foul smelling from toilets, high risk of disease. Guard personal property such as expensive sunglasses Coffee always awful and cold Meal trays toddler sized Not worth the extra cost to fly SQ - use a budget airline, same if not better experience

Seating cramped; close to toilet, foul smelling and noisy, very unhygienic and disease risk Free and paid Wi-Fi NOT accessible at all - misleading advertising Very expensive sunglasses disappeared from back seat pouch. Coffee disgusting and cold

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

The premium economy seats were not that great. It could have been more premium than economy seats.

The singapore airline now compared before covid, I like the service before covid. SQ was the best of all airlines but now I am going to look for different airline if I am travelling in asia.

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

Legs space in the business class cabin is too small and pillow is dirty!

Very good crew, very efficient. Unfortunately not all items listed in duty free catalog were available.

Many changes need to be addressed from airport check in to flight departure. If they observe other major airlines, then they can expect what Sri Lankan airlines need to update their procedures.

Very professional and well managed. On time, great staff and comfortable.

Smooth takeoff and landing. Best service experience in all our travels over the years. Caring and attentive crew. Loved our flight to and fro.

not looking like a national flag carrier.. both the ground team and flight team are far from being kind and helpful. Not sure what's wrong.

Kayak company fake total I m not travel my payment reverse plzzz my credit card

I m not good serves poor serves I m m fake company kayak ok plzz my help my ticket cancel my tripe ok

Terrible experience. Unexpected wait due to staff delay was not taken proper care. Food inflight could be better where as flight attendees on flight hospitality was 100%

Aircraft used fir this route was pretty old. Seats 💺 were hard & difficult to reclaim although it was flat bed

Because of the bubble agreement b/w India and Srilanka, I was not allowed to board the flight to Columbo. My experience about airport representatives was good. They were through in their job and saved my family from getting stuck in Columbo (as I would not be able to fly to Doha because of bubble agreement). So by their prompt attention, such a catastrophe was avoided. For this reason, even without flying with them, I would rate them 7/10.

Great staff and food. Seats pretty uncomfortable but plenty of legroom. Entertainment system outdated.

Gatwick London-Shanghai -Bangkok.. Would have liked entertainment screens, but I know these planes are not that new. Cheap flights at the time of booking, Emirates wanted double so you get what you paid for. I would fly again with them, but if Emirates was the same price I would go with them.

The landings were smooth . Being unable to check-in online was terribly stressful and the queue at Haneda exemely long. We paid extra for window seats and did not get them.

Again, I was presented with birthday pastries two times as a celebrated my birthday on both legs of my trip. I will keep flying to China using China Eastern airlines. As they made this trip a special one thank you.

Couldn’t fly since they wouldn’t issue a boarding ticket. Something to do with not taking the departing flight since it was cancelled due to weather. No notice or anything about the trip being invalid. The app made it seem like I was all good for it. Never trusting travel agency

2 hours delay on the 1st plane out of the day!!!!!

Multiple delays, with no explanation. Caused us to almost miss our connector. The airline made no effort when we arrived in Shanghai to help us make it to our next flight with the same airline.

I will never fly through China again. Maybe it was the mandatory retinal scan just to transfer to another flight or the complete set of fingerprints they require. There are many better and inexpensive flights to Asia if you look.

Pros: "The flight was smooth. Food was on time . Wine is available for the anxious flyers who can’t sleep."
Cons: "Better softer hand soap , sprays and lotion . Sleep mask"
Cons: "delay of about 1 hour, we almost missed our international flight from beigin"

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Recent one-way flight deals

 
Only flying one-way? Below are some of the best one-way flight deals from Auckland to Colombo found on KAYAK in the last 72 hours.
7/6fre.
1 stop
16h 05mAKL-CMB
$860
7/6fre.
1 stop
22h 25mAKL-CMB
$867
29/6lør.
1 stop
21h 55mAKL-CMB
$925
30/7tir.
1 stopMalaysia Airlines
29h 00mAKL-CMB
$1,026
7/6fre.
2 stops
35h 20mAKL-CMB
$1,033
7/6fre.
2 stops
34h 05mAKL-CMB
$1,041
7/6fre.
3 stopsEmirates
43h 00mAKL-CMB
$1,363
7/6fre.
3 stopsEmirates
43h 00mAKL-CMB
$1,373
6/6tor.
1 stopSriLankan Airlines
22h 10mAKL-CMB
$1,407
6/6tor.
1 stopSriLankan Airlines
22h 10mAKL-CMB
$1,419

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Last minute flights from Auckland to Bandaranaike Intl

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 from Auckland to Colombo that are departing in the next 10 days.
2/5tor.
multi-stop
22h 45mAKL-CMB
29/5ons.
multi-stop
17h 10mCMB-AKL
$1,628
2/5tor.
multi-stop
24h 25mAKL-CMB
30/5tor.
multi-stop
36h 20mCMB-AKL
$1,691
2/5tor.
multi-stop
24h 25mAKL-CMB
30/5tor.
multi-stop
36h 20mCMB-AKL
$1,692
2/5tor.
multi-stopChina Eastern
30h 40mAKL-CMB
30/5tor.
multi-stopChina Eastern
35h 55mCMB-AKL
$1,733
2/5tor.
multi-stopChina Eastern
30h 40mAKL-CMB
29/5ons.
multi-stopChina Eastern
33h 00mCMB-AKL
$1,745
2/5tor.
multi-stopChina Eastern
30h 40mAKL-CMB
30/5tor.
multi-stopChina Eastern
35h 05mCMB-AKL
$1,761
2/5tor.
multi-stop
22h 45mAKL-CMB
8/5ons.
multi-stop
36h 00mCMB-AKL
$1,827
2/5tor.
multi-stopQantas Airways
21h 50mAKL-CMB
9/5tor.
multi-stopQantas Airways
20h 10mCMB-AKL
$1,896
2/5tor.
multi-stopEmirates
32h 40mAKL-CMB
9/5tor.
multi-stopEmirates
33h 50mCMB-AKL
$2,266
4/5lør.
multi-stopEmirates
41h 35mAKL-CMB
1/6lør.
multi-stopEmirates
38h 00mCMB-AKL
$2,310

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Auckland - Colombo Flights

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Auckland (AKL)New Zealand

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Colombo (CMB)Sri Lanka

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