Flights from Manchester to Adelaide: Best prices & times

Flights from Manchester to Adelaide, Australia, are available with several airlines. The quickest flights last 23h5m – but shop around for the cheapest fares.

There are no direct flights from Manchester to Adelaide, Australia. But there are several options on the Manchester to Adelaide flight route, albeit not as many as with other Australian cities.

This competition keeps the prices of flights to Adelaide from Manchester reasonably low when you consider how much it can cost to fly much shorter distances.

Adelaide brings food tours of the fabulous Central Market, Torrens River cruises, swimming with dolphins and the chance to walk across the roof of the Adelaide Oval. To book Adelaide accommodation, step this way. For a full range of Adelaide tours and experiences, explore here.

How much do flights from Manchester to Adelaide cost?

Flights from Manchester to Adelaide cost from around £1,063 return in economy class.

This is significantly more expensive than the fares pre-Covid, when you could often find a Manchester to Adelaide return fare from around £850.

Prices may go down again as travel continues to return to the sort of levels seen before.

Pick your perfect Adelaide day trips

Barossa Valley tours: 1. Wine-tasting with lunch 🍷. 2. Food and wine tour. 3. Small group wine tour with exclusive VIP tastings.
Kangaroo Island in a day – including sea lions 🦭, koalas 🐨and national parks.
Adelaide Hills tours: 1. Sights plus Murray River lunch cruise combo. 2. Small group cheese, chocolate & wine tour with Hahndorf German village.
McLaren Vale tours: 1. Small group wine tour with lunch. 2. Hop-on hop-off wineries tour 🍷. 3. Food and wine indulgence tour, including the gloriously weird d’Arenberg Cube.
Victor Harbor and southern highlights tour – including the Granite Island horse-drawn tram.

Business class fares from Manchester to Adelaide

Business class fares from Manchester to Adelaide can be unaffordbly expensive for most travellers. Checking using Kayak for October flights, the cheapest business class fare to Adelaide from Manchester is £5,140 return with Singapore Airlines.

This is around the cheapest times of year to fly to Australia, as well.

Which airlines fly from Manchester to Adelaide?

No airlines fly direct from Manchester to Adelaide, and just two offer a one-stop service on the same airline. These are Singapore Airlines via Singapore and Qatar Airways via Doha.

Both are top quality airlines, so normally, it’d be better to go with whichever is cheapest. However, in this case there is a significant difference in layover times.

**15 fabulous Adelaide experiences to supercharge your visit**

DOLPHINS 🐬: Swim with wild dolphins, kayak with the resident bottlenose pod or watch them on a dolphin cruise.
FOOD AND WINE 🍷: Indulge on Adelaide food tour including Adelaide Central Market. Or try a wine discovery tour with tastings at the National Wine Centre. Or the ultimate Penfolds Magill Estate experience with full estate tour & Grange tasting.
WILDLIFE 🐨: Spot koalas on a guided Morialta nature hike. Or walk from Waterfall Gully to Mount Lofty with entrance to Cleland Wildlife Park.
CRUISES ⛵: Watch the sun set on a twilight coastal cruise, get to know the city on a Torrens River cruise or take a high tea cruise aboard the Popeye.
SPORT 🏏: Dare to take on the Adelaide Oval Roofclimb or enter the fabled scoreboard on the behind-the-scenes stadium tour.
ACTION 🚵‍♂️: Descend Mount Lofty on a downhill mountain bike tour or kayak along the Torrens River.

How long does the Manchester to Adelaide flight take?

According to the timetables at the time of writing, the Qatar Airways flights from Manchester to Adelaide take 23 hours and five minutes. This involves a layover in Doha of three hours and 20 minutes.

This Adelaide flight time seems long until you have a look at the layover in Singapore with Singapore Airlines.

Alas, the Singapore Airlines flight schedules really don’t match up for this connection. The Manchester to Adelaide flight time with Singapore Airlines is 35 hours and 35 minutes. This includes a 15 hour, 40 minute layover at Singapore Changi Airport.

That’s great if you fancy exploring Singapore. Not so great if you just want to get to Adelaide.