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Find cheap flights from New Zealand to Chennai from ₹ 28,215

This is the cheapest one-way flight price found by a KAYAK user in the last 72 hours by searching for a flight to Chennai departing on 27/6. 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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Flights to Chennai - Travel Insights & Trends

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

What is the cheapest day to fly to Chennai?

The average price of all flights to Chennai clicked on KAYAK for each day over the last 12 months.
Based on KAYAK data, the cheapest day to fly to Chennai is Sunday where tickets can be as cheap as ₹ 92,528. On the other hand, the most expensive day to fly is Friday, where prices are ₹ 139,227 on average.

What is the cheapest month to fly to Chennai?

To calculate monthly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each month over the last year for flights to Chennai, 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 Chennai is October, where tickets cost ₹ 84,729 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 ₹ 138,238 and ₹ 104,096 respectively. For return trips, the best month to travel is October with an average price of ₹ 84,729.

What is the cheapest time of day to fly to Chennai?

The average price for all flights to Chennai depending on the time of departure, clicked by users on KAYAK in the last 2 weeks.
The cheapest time of day to fly to Chennai is generally at night, when flights cost ₹ 106,620 on average. The most expensive time of day to fly to Chennai is generally in the morning, which is peak travel time and where the average cost of a ticket is ₹ 139,299.

How far in advance should I book a flight to Chennai?

To calculate daily average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each day before departure over the last year for flights to Chennai, 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, you should book around 0 weeks before departure. For the absolute cheapest price, our data suggests you should book 53 days before departure.

How long is the flight to Chennai?

The duration of your flight to Chennai depends on your departure and arrival airports. Obviously any flights that include a layover will also be longer. The most popular routes to Chennai on KAYAK are from Auckland, which takes 17h 15m, and Wellington, which takes 23h 05m.

How many direct flights to Chennai are there each day?

There are around 156 direct flights from within New Zealand to Chennai every day. Most flights depart in the morning, with 07:00 the most common departure time and 37% of flights departing in the morning.

How many direct flights to Chennai are there each week?

Each week there are around 1,092 direct flights from within New Zealand to Chennai. The most common day for departures is Thursday, with 15% of flights taking off on this day.

Good to know

Low season

January

High season

December

Cheapest flight

₹ 28,215
Best time to beat the crowds but there is an average 2% increase in price.
Most popular time to fly (36% more expensive on average)
Flight from Auckland to Chennai

FAQs - booking Chennai flights

  • How far is Chennai from central Chennai?

    Chennai is 16 km from the centre of Chennai.

  • What is the name of Chennai’s airport?

    When flying to Chennai, you'll arrive at Chennai (MAA). The airport is also known as Chennai or Chennai Intl.

  • How does KAYAK find such low prices on flights to Chennai?

    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 Chennai.

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

    KAYAK’s flight Price Forecast tool uses historical data to determine whether the price for a flight to Chennai 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 Chennai?

    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 Chennai 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 Chennai?

    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 Chennai 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 Chennai?

    Of the 8 airlines that fly to Chennai, IndiGo offers the most flights, with around 813 per week, followed by Air India with 115 flights per week.

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Top tips for finding cheap flights to Chennai

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

Direct departures

New Zealand to Chennai

Monday

ANA, Air Arabia, Air Arabia Abu Dhabi, +45 more

ANA, Air Arabia, +46 more

Tuesday

ANA, Air Arabia, Air Arabia Abu Dhabi, +47 more

ANA, Air Arabia, +48 more

Wednesday

ANA, Air Arabia, Air Arabia Abu Dhabi, +44 more

ANA, Air Arabia, +45 more

Thursday

ANA, Air Arabia, Air Arabia Abu Dhabi, +47 more

ANA, Air Arabia, +48 more

Friday

ANA, Air Arabia, Air Arabia Abu Dhabi, +45 more

ANA, Air Arabia, +46 more

Saturday

ANA, Air Arabia, Air Arabia Abu Dhabi, +48 more

ANA, Air Arabia, +49 more

Sunday

ANA, Air Arabia, Air Arabia Abu Dhabi, +44 more

ANA, Air Arabia, +45 more

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Direct returns

Chennai to New Zealand

Monday

ANA, Air Arabia, Air Arabia Abu Dhabi, +45 more

ANA, Air Arabia, +46 more

Tuesday

ANA, Air Arabia, Air Arabia Abu Dhabi, +47 more

ANA, Air Arabia, +48 more

Wednesday

ANA, Air Arabia, Air Arabia Abu Dhabi, +44 more

ANA, Air Arabia, +45 more

Thursday

ANA, Air Arabia, Air Arabia Abu Dhabi, +47 more

ANA, Air Arabia, +48 more

Friday

ANA, Air Arabia, Air Arabia Abu Dhabi, +45 more

ANA, Air Arabia, +46 more

Saturday

ANA, Air Arabia, Air Arabia Abu Dhabi, +48 more

ANA, Air Arabia, +49 more

Sunday

ANA, Air Arabia, Air Arabia Abu Dhabi, +44 more

ANA, Air Arabia, +45 more

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Top airlines flying from New Zealand to Chennai

 
See real verified KAYAK customer reviews for airlines flying to Chennai. Airline scores are aggregated from all reviews left by passengers on KAYAK after flying with an airline from New Zealand to Chennai. 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 Chennai? 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 1458 reviews
7.8Food
8.2Entertainment
8.7Crew
8.4Boarding
8.1Comfort
Airline reviews

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

Awesome as always. I wish though the cabin for premium was upgraded.... Same old sane old :(

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

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

When boarding, after business class should be premium economy, but economy class already lined-up at the gate blocking premium economy to board. Singapore airline crew should done a better job to organize this chaos :( Thank you.

It seems paying premium economy does not make difference with economy. No priority boarding, not worthy paying extra$$$ for premium economy.

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.

Flying with Singapore airlines is always excelllent - the crew are lovely and the food too is great. It’s my number 1 airline

They were able to assist my elderly father and myself after not being able to check in to scoot. The counter service was phenomenal. They did what they could to get us on the next plane so we could catch our Connecting flight. Scoot closed early on us so we ended up missing our flight.

Service / food has to be much better. Staff were not very attentive to requests. Requested for a second serve of coke and got a weird look back from the host! Was also told they don’t have extra water bottles when I requested for one before sleep! Dinner time food was very minimum and average.

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.

Delayed, not enough information. Had to ask for refreshments, crew could have been more proactive

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.

Entertainment system was too old, crew were unorganised during boarding

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

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

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Recent return flight deals

 
These are the cheapest return flights to Chennai found on KAYAK in the last 72 hours.
20/6Thu
2 stops
30h 45mAKL-MAA
5/7Fri
2 stops
25h 55mMAA-AKL
₹ 57,850
6/6Thu
2 stops
23h 10mAKL-MAA
13/6Thu
2 stops
25h 00mMAA-AKL
₹ 67,700
20/6Thu
3 stops
25h 10mAKL-MAA
5/7Fri
2 stops
32h 40mMAA-AKL
₹ 70,204
10/6Mon
2 stopsQantas Airways
30h 25mAKL-MAA
11/6Tue
2 stopsQantas Airways
46h 45mMAA-AKL
₹ 76,882
12/8Mon
1 stopSingapore Airlines
16h 55mAKL-MAA
14/8Wed
2 stopsSingapore Airlines
23h 15mMAA-AKL
₹ 86,816
6/6Thu
2 stopsSriLankan Airlines
48h 05mAKL-MAA
12/6Wed
2 stopsSriLankan Airlines
38h 25mMAA-AKL
₹ 87,067
6/6Thu
1 stopMalaysia Airlines
16h 20mAKL-MAA
13/6Thu
1 stopMalaysia Airlines
29h 00mMAA-AKL
₹ 87,234
10/8Sat
2 stopsSingapore Airlines
44h 50mWLG-MAA
14/8Wed
2 stopsSingapore Airlines
32h 55mMAA-WLG
₹ 87,651
10/6Mon
1 stopMalaysia Airlines
16h 20mAKL-MAA
11/6Tue
1 stopMalaysia Airlines
17h 10mMAA-AKL
₹ 89,320
12/8Mon
2 stopsSriLankan Airlines
43h 20mAKL-MAA
14/8Wed
2 stopsSriLankan Airlines
25h 30mMAA-AKL
₹ 91,908

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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 Chennai found on KAYAK in the last 72 hours.
27/6Thu
2 stops
30h 45mAKL-MAA
₹ 28,215
28/6Fri
3 stops
38h 05mAKL-MAA
₹ 33,474
27/6Thu
3 stops
41h 35mAKL-MAA
₹ 35,979
27/6Thu
1 stopMalaysia Airlines
16h 50mAKL-MAA
₹ 72,208
28/6Fri
1 stopAir New Zealand
26h 40mAKL-MAA
₹ 79,554
28/6Fri
1 stop
20h 20mAKL-MAA
₹ 84,061
27/6Thu
2 stopsSriLankan Airlines
38h 55mAKL-MAA
₹ 85,314

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Last minute flights to Chennai

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 to Chennai that are departing in the next 10 days.
10/5Fri
multi-stop
23h 10mAKL-MAA
2/6Sun
multi-stop
25h 45mMAA-AKL
₹ 70,622
10/5Fri
multi-stop
35h 15mAKL-MAA
2/6Sun
multi-stop
23h 15mMAA-AKL
₹ 78,385
10/5Fri
multi-stop
35h 15mAKL-MAA
2/6Sun
multi-stop
35h 15mMAA-AKL
₹ 82,475
10/5Fri
multi-stop
48h 35mAKL-MAA
1/6Sat
multi-stop
39h 55mMAA-AKL
₹ 97,251
10/5Fri
multi-stop
36h 00mAKL-MAA
1/6Sat
multi-stop
27h 45mMAA-AKL
₹ 101,341
9/5Thu
multi-stopSriLankan Airlines
38h 55mAKL-MAA
2/6Sun
multi-stopSriLankan Airlines
25h 30mMAA-AKL
₹ 107,018
10/5Fri
multi-stopEmirates
42h 25mAKL-MAA
2/6Sun
multi-stopEmirates
41h 30mMAA-AKL
₹ 107,352
10/5Fri
multi-stopEmirates
42h 25mAKL-MAA
2/6Sun
multi-stopEmirates
33h 50mMAA-AKL
₹ 108,019
10/5Fri
multi-stopQatar Airways
26h 25mAKL-MAA
2/6Sun
multi-stopQatar Airways
22h 45mMAA-AKL
₹ 120,708
9/5Thu
multi-stopMalaysia Airlines
16h 50mAKL-MAA
2/6Sun
multi-stopMalaysia Airlines
16h 25mMAA-AKL
₹ 140,659

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