Flights from Manila (MNL) to Colombo (CMB) — PHP Fares & Schedules

Flights Manila (MNL) → Colombo (CMB)

0 nonstop carriers are catalogued on MNL–CMB; the corridor is flown as a connection, with a scheduled block of 6.5 hours. The cheapest one-way in our cache is ₱28,989. ₱28,989 is the lowest one-way the fare feed returned for this route on 2026-08-02.

This corridor carries a demand score of 1/10 in our route file and is flagged as a leisure, VFR and business corridor. Read that number for what it is: an editorial 1-10 ranking of estimated Filipino-language search interest, built for prioritising which pages we research first. It is not a passenger count, not a load factor, and not a quality signal about the airlines involved. High-scoring corridors are the ones where seats on the cheapest fare classes disappear first and where the gap between an early booking and a two-week-out booking is widest; low-scoring corridors tend to hold their price longer but give you fewer departures to choose from if a plan slips.

Manila to Colombo is a business and leisure corridor flown with a connection rather than nonstop. The route serves travellers between the Philippine capital and the largest city of Sri Lanka. With no nonstop service, the journey is flown with a connection at a regional hub, pairing two international legs.

Airlines on this route

0 carriers are catalogued nonstop on MNL–CMB. The corridor is flown as a connection, normally through Manila, so the itinerary is built from two flights and the protection you get depends on whether they sit on one ticket. ₱28,989 is the lowest one-way the fare feed returned for this route on 2026-08-02.

The one choice that changes your exposure on a connecting Manila–Colombo journey is whether you hold one ticket or two. Manila handled 50,100,000 passengers in 2024 (MIAA / NNIC), so the transfer happens inside a very busy building. On one ticket the carriers accept the connection as their problem: the bag is checked through to CMB, the minimum connecting time published for the airport is what protects you, and a delay on the domestic leg obliges the airline to move you onto the next available onward flight at no charge. On two separately bought tickets none of that holds. You collect the bag in Manila, clear out of the terminal, check in again from scratch, and if the first flight runs late the second airline is entitled to treat you as a no-show and keep the fare. The cheaper two-ticket combination is genuinely cheaper — right up to the first delay, at which point it costs more than the difference it saved.

No carrier flies Manila to Colombo nonstop. Connecting itineraries route through a Southeast Asian hub, where carriers continue to Colombo. A single through-ticket protects the connection and is the simpler option for travellers with checked baggage.

PHP fares

₱28,989 is the cheapest MNL–CMB one-way in this site’s fare cache, on Cebu Pacific. It is a cache floor for one date and fare class, not a held quote. Across 5 cached departure months the floor ranged ₱10,899 to ₱14,839.

Across the 5 departure months we hold for this pair (October 2026 through December 2026 in the cache), the cheapest reading is ₱10,899 in October 2026 and the most expensive ₱14,839 in December 2026. Two caveats keep that honest. First, each month contributes one number — the cheapest one-way the feed found in that month — so this is a floor-by-floor comparison, not an average fare by month, and a month with thin coverage can read artificially low. Second, the months are not a forecast: they describe inventory that was loaded when we polled. What the shape is genuinely useful for is ranking your own flexible dates. If your trip can move by three or four weeks, the difference between the cheapest and dearest month here is larger than almost any discount code will ever be.

The combined PHP fare covers both legs. Prices climb around the December holidays and the Sri Lankan peak tourist season; for those dates, booking two to three months ahead is sensible. For ordinary travel, six to nine weeks usually secures a reasonable combined fare.

About Colombo

1 arrival airport serves this route: Bandaranaike International Apt Colombo Airport (CMB), at Colombo, Sri Lanka. ₱28,989 is the lowest one-way the fare feed returned for this route on 2026-08-02. 4 weekly fare snapshots are held for this pair, the most recent from 2026-W31.

On arrival you are landing at Bandaranaike International Apt Colombo Airport, ICAO VCBI, serving Colombo, Sri Lanka. One habit worth forming on any arrival: read the airport, not the city name. Big metro areas usually have several airports, and the cheapest fare tends to land at the most distant one — where the transfer into town can cost more than the fare saved. Check which airport your fare actually lands at before you compare two prices, and if you are connecting onward from a different airport in the same city, treat that as a separate journey with its own buffer — no airline protects a connection that involves a taxi.

Colombo is the largest city and commercial capital of Sri Lanka, a port city on the island’s west coast that blends colonial-era architecture with a busy modern centre. For travellers from Manila it is a business destination and a gateway to the rest of Sri Lanka, reached through a connection.

What 4 weeks of fare snapshots show on MNL–CMB

4 weekly snapshots between 2026-W19 and 2026-W31 put the cheapest MNL–CMB one-way between ₱13,032 and ₱34,766. The latest reading, 2026-W31, is ₱28,989. ₱28,989 is the lowest one-way the fare feed returned for this route on 2026-08-02.

We take one reading a week and keep it. Over 4 of them the low was ₱13,032 in 2026-W25 and the high ₱34,766 — a 2.7× swing on an unchanged route, which is the single most useful thing this series says. Week to week the last move was down ₱2,902 (9%) from 2026-W27 to 2026-W31. Method, so you can discount it properly: each point is the cheapest one-way the feed could see in that ISO week, not a booked price and not an average of the market, and a week where the poll caught a promotional seat reads lower than the week either side of it. The band is the signal; individual weeks are noise. A fare inside the lower third of that band is a good one on this pair; a fare above the top of it is worth re-checking a week later before you commit.

The cheapest MNL–CMB fare we have on file

₱28,989 is the lowest one-way the Travelpayouts feed returned for MNL–CMB when this route was last polled on 2026-08-02, on Cebu Pacific, nonstop, for a November 2026 departure. The cached itinerary runs 38.8 hours end to end.

That ₱28,989 is a cache reading, not a quote, and the difference is worth stating plainly. It is the lowest one-way price the fare feed returned for MNL–CMB at the moment it was polled, for one specific departure date, in one specific fare class. It is a single one-way observation rather than an average, and it is not held: the inventory behind it is thin and often gone within the day. Three things it also excludes: checked baggage where the carrier sells a bags-free base fare, seat selection, and any change or refund flexibility. Treat it as the floor of the range you should expect to see, then compare the all-in total once the bag you actually need is added back.

FAQ

6 questions below draw only on the route, carrier and fare data this project keeps for MNL–CMB. Cache readings are labelled as cache readings, and any rule with exceptions is answered with the exceptions attached. ₱28,989 is the lowest one-way the fare feed returned for this route on 2026-08-02.

Which airlines fly from Manila to Colombo? There is no nonstop service on MNL-CMB; the route is flown with a connection, usually through Manila.

How long is the flight from Manila to Colombo? The flying time is about 6.5 hours, plus the wait at the connecting airport — allow a longer total journey.

When are Manila to Colombo fares cheapest? Fares on MNL-CMB are quoted in PHP and move with demand. They climb around the December holidays and Holy Week. Booking four to eight weeks ahead usually secures a reasonable economy fare.

Are there nonstop flights from Manila to Colombo? No — Manila to Colombo is flown with a connection, usually via Manila.

What is the cheapest Manila to Colombo fare on record here? ₱28,989 one-way — the lowest price the fare feed returned for MNL–CMB when this route was last polled on 2026-08-02, on Cebu Pacific. That is the minimum of one record for one route, not of the whole cache: a floor for a single date and fare class, not a held quote, and it excludes checked baggage where the carrier sells it separately.

How much do MNL–CMB fares move week to week? Across 4 weekly snapshots from 2026-W19 to 2026-W31 the cheapest one-way ranged ₱13,032 to ₱34,766. Each point is the lowest fare visible that week, not an average of the market.

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