Flights from Manila to Bali Denpasar — Schedule, Carriers, Best Time

Manila (MNL) to Bali Denpasar (DPS) is the dream tourism corridor para sa Pinoy honeymooners at beach pasyal, flown nonstop by Philippine Airlines and Cebu Pacific with around 7 weekly departures and a 4.5-hour block. Off-peak roundtrip economy fares sit between PHP 16,000-24,000, climbing during dry season peak (June-August) and Christmas. Bali is exciting first-time international romance trip — beaches, rice terraces, temples.

Route at a glance

7 one-way departures a week are catalogued on MNL–DPS, flown by Philippine Airlines and Cebu Pacific, with a scheduled block of 4.5 hours. The cheapest one-way in our cache is ₱9,957. 7 one-way departures a week are catalogued on the pair across 2 carriers on file.

This corridor carries a demand score of 6/10 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.

• Distance & duration: ~4.5 hours nonstop, MNL to DPS.
• Carriers nonstop: Philippine Airlines (PR), Cebu Pacific (5J).
• Frequency: ~7 weekly departures, daily on most banks.
• Travel profile: Tourism-only; honeymoon, beach pasyal, wellness retreats.

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Best time to book

₱9,957 is the cheapest MNL–DPS 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 9 cached departure months the floor ranged ₱4,866 to ₱8,912.

That ₱9,957 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–DPS at the moment it was polled, for one specific departure date, in one specific fare class. It averages nothing, covers one direction only, and is not reserved — that price normally sits on a small block of seats that can disappear mid-search. 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.

Cheapest pockets are February through March (rainy season tail) and mid-September through early November, when fares dip to PHP 14,000-18,500 roundtrip. Avoid the dry-season peak (June-August), Christmas-New Year, and Galungan/Kuningan Hindu holidays, kasi tourism demand pushes fares past PHP 32,000. Booking 10-14 weeks ahead is the tipid sweet spot po. Cebu Pacific midnight banks are pinaka-mura — sulit kapag walang malaking baggage. Last-minute fares within 21 days usually mahal — limited daily flights mean less inventory.

Carriers compared

2 carriers — Philippine Airlines and Cebu Pacific — are catalogued nonstop on MNL–DPS, filing about 7 one-way departures a week. Base economy checked baggage runs 0–23 kg across them. ₱9,957 is the lowest one-way the fare feed returned for this route on 2026-08-02.

What each operator brings to this pair, from our carrier file:

• Philippine Airlines (PR) — alliance none (ex-oneworld observer); hubs MNL/CEB; 23 kg economy checked; +10 kg OFW uplift; PH brand strength 10/10.
• Cebu Pacific (5J) — no global alliance; hubs MNL/CEB/CRK/DVO/ILO; 0 kg economy checked; PH brand strength 10/10. Cebu Pacific sit outside a global alliance, which matters at exactly one moment: a disruption. An alliance partner can usually be rebooked onto without a new ticket, an unaligned carrier needs an interline agreement to do the same thing, and if neither exists you are buying a fresh seat at walk-up price.

Fare bracket (peso-first)

₱9,957 is the cheapest MNL–DPS 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 9 cached departure months the floor ranged ₱4,866 to ₱8,912.

Across the 9 departure months we hold for this pair (November 2026 through August 2026 in the cache), the cheapest reading is ₱4,866 in November 2026 and the most expensive ₱8,912 in August 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.

• Low (Feb-Mar, Sep-early Nov): PHP 14,000-18,500 (IDR 4,000,000-5,275,000 / USD 250-330).
• Mid (Apr-May, late Nov): PHP 19,000-25,000 (IDR 5,420,000-7,130,000 / USD 340-445).
• Peak (Jun-Aug, Dec 15-Jan 5): PHP 32,000-46,000 (IDR 9,120,000-13,110,000 / USD 570-820).

Best for first-time travelers

1 arrival airport serves this route: Ngurah Rai (Bali) International Airport (DPS), at Bali Denpasar, Indonesia. Local currency is IDR. 7 one-way departures a week are catalogued on the pair across 2 carriers on file. ₱9,957 is the lowest one-way the fare feed returned for this route on 2026-08-02.

On arrival you are landing at Ngurah Rai (Bali) International Airport, ICAO WADD, serving Bali Denpasar, Indonesia. Tourism only. Across the whole Philippine market, Philippine Airlines and Cebu Pacific are the carriers our destination file records as serving Bali Denpasar from home — a wider set than the ones flying this particular pair, which is why a Manila routing sometimes opens options Manila does not have. A planning point that costs people money: an airport code is not a city. Where a city has more than one airport, the low fare is often into the outlying field, and the road time and taxi fare can wipe out the difference. 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.

Bali is exciting honeymoon at romantic anniversary destination. Ngurah Rai Airport (DPS) is malapit lang sa Kuta and Seminyak (15-30 mins by Grab). Pasyal must-dos: Tanah Lot temple sunset, Uluwatu cliff temple, Tegallalang rice terraces, Ubud monkey forest, beach hopping (Nusa Dua, Sanur, Canggu). Day trip to Nusa Penida tipid via fast boat (~PHP 1,400 / IDR 400,000 round trip) — Kelingking beach, Angel’s Billabong. Always carry passport copy, hotel booking, at return ticket. IDR 150,000 (~PHP 530) tourism levy collected on arrival via QR code. Honeymoon villas in Ubud sulit at exciting — book through Booking.com or Airbnb.

What 7 weeks of fare snapshots show on MNL–DPS

7 weekly snapshots between 2026-W19 and 2026-W31 put the cheapest MNL–DPS one-way between ₱9,957 and ₱13,366. The latest reading, 2026-W31, is ₱9,957. 7 one-way departures a week are catalogued on the pair across 2 carriers on file.

We take one reading a week and keep it. Over 7 of them the low was ₱9,957 in 2026-W31 and the high ₱13,366 — a 1.3× swing on an unchanged route, which is the single most useful thing this series says. Week to week the last move was down ₱1,907 (16%) from 2026-W29 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. Judge a fare against the band rather than any single point. 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.

Entry rules for a Philippine passport in Indonesia

1 entry condition is recorded for Indonesia on a Philippine passport: visa-free. Confirm it against the destination’s own immigration portal before booking. 7 one-way departures a week are catalogued on the pair across 2 carriers on file. ₱9,957 is the lowest one-way the fare feed returned for this route on 2026-08-02.

Our destination file records entry for Indonesia as visa-free for a Philippine passport. That single word carries more weight than it looks. Where a visa is required, the lead time on the application — not the fare — is what fixes your booking window, and buying a non-refundable ticket before the visa is issued is the most common expensive mistake on corridors like this one. Where entry is visa-free or visa-on-arrival, the permission is still conditional: officers routinely ask for an onward ticket, an address, and evidence you can fund the stay, and a visa-free stamp can be refused. Transit adds another layer again — the rule that matters in a connecting airport belongs to the transit country, not to your destination. Visa rules change frequently. Use this as a starting reference only; verify with the destination’s embassy or official immigration portal before booking. For OFW employment visas, follow the DMW deployment process — that is separate from tourist/visit visas.

Delays and cancellations: what actually applies on MNL–DPS

2 rulebooks cover MNL–DPS from the Philippine side: the Civil Aeronautics Board’s Air Passenger Bill of Rights, which governs the departure from a Philippine airport, and the Montreal Convention 1999, which caps liability for delay and baggage. Indonesia may operate its own scheme for departures from its airports; this page does not track it.

None of the statutory compensation schemes this site sources — EU261, UK261, the Saudi GACA regulation, Canada’s APPR and the US DOT consumer rules — reaches MNL–DPS. Read that as a statement about our source list, not as a finding that Indonesia has no rules of its own: states routinely regulate departures from their own airports, and the civil aviation authority of Indonesia is the body to check before you conclude that nothing applies. What definitely does apply in both directions is the Montreal Convention 1999, which caps a carrier’s liability for delay and for baggage that is damaged, delayed or lost. Montreal reimburses proven loss up to a cap; it pays no fixed sum for the inconvenience itself, so keep receipts rather than counting hours.

On the Manila end, a flight departing a Philippine airport is covered by the Air Passenger Bill of Rights administered by the Civil Aeronautics Board, which obliges the carrier to offer rebooking or a refund and to provide amenities as a delay lengthens. It is a service and refund standard rather than a compensation tariff, so the outcome is rebooking, a refund and amenities rather than a set payment.

FAQ

8 questions below are answered from our own corridor, carrier and fare records for MNL–DPS. Anything that is a cached floor rather than a bookable price says so, and rules that fail in specific situations are answered with those situations named.

Checked baggage and the OFW uplift on MNL–DPS

10 kg is the largest OFW uplift on this route, carried by Philippine Airlines on top of a 23 kg economy base — 33 kg in total for a qualifying passenger.

Checked allowance on this pair, from our carrier file:

• Philippine Airlines — 23 kg economy base, +10 kg under Overseas Filipino Bayani Program (extra baggage 10kg + handling) = 33 kg for a qualifying worker.
• Cebu Pacific — 0 kg economy base, no OFW uplift recorded in our carrier file.

The uplift is the part people get wrong, so here is where it does not reach. It is granted to a person under a programme, not written into a fare class, and the desk issues it against paperwork — an OEC or OFW Pass and, usually, the employment contract. Book a bags-free base fare on a low-cost carrier and there is no base allowance for the uplift to sit on top of. Book the domestic feeder as a separate ticket and the uplift does not follow the bag onto it. Fly a segment operated by a partner airline under a codeshare and the operating carrier’s own rules apply, not the one whose code is on your ticket. And the allowance is per passenger, not per booking — you cannot pool it across a family unless the airline’s own pooling rule says so. Verify the number at booking; excess bought at the airport is priced per kilo and is the most expensive kilo you will ever buy.

What is the cheapest Manila to Bali Denpasar fare on record here? ₱9,957 one-way — the lowest price the fare feed returned for MNL–DPS 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–DPS fares move week to week? Across 7 weekly snapshots from 2026-W19 to 2026-W31 the cheapest one-way ranged ₱9,957 to ₱13,366. Each point is the lowest fare visible that week, not an average of the market.

Does the OFW baggage uplift apply to every fare on MNL–DPS? No. The largest uplift on this route is 10 kg with Philippine Airlines, granted at check-in against an OEC or OFW Pass. It does not apply to a bags-free base fare, to a separately ticketed domestic feeder, or to a codeshare segment operated by a partner under its own rules, and it is per passenger rather than per booking.

Can I claim delay compensation on MNL–DPS? Not under any scheme this site sources. The fallback is the carrier’s conditions of carriage plus Montreal Convention 1999 liability limits, and Indonesia’s own civil aviation authority is worth checking for departures from its airports. Separately, a departure from a Philippine airport is covered by the Civil Aeronautics Board’s Air Passenger Bill of Rights, which mandates rebooking, refunds and amenities but sets no fixed cash scale.

Magkano ang ticket Manila to Bali? Roughly PHP 16,000-24,000 (IDR 4,560,000-6,840,000 / USD 285-430) roundtrip economy off-peak; peak hits PHP 32,000-46,000.

Visa-free ba ang Pinoy sa Bali? Oo po — 30 days visa-free. Bali tourism levy IDR 150,000 (~PHP 530) collected on arrival.

Anong airline ang pinaka-mura? Cebu Pacific cheapest base fare; PAL balanced with 23 kg baggage at free meal.

Kailan ang pinaka-magandang panahon? Dry season May-September; shoulder April at October sulit pa rin.

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Updated 9 May 2026. FlyPilipinas is a 14-person Filipino editorial team; content is researched and edited by Filipino travel and OFW specialists. About the author →.