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Cheap Flights from Manchester to the Maldives

Cheapest return prices found by our users on KAYAK in the last 72 hours
Malé
Malé2 stops£472
Addu City
Addu City2 stops£1,345
Malé
Malé2 stops£472
Addu City
Addu City2 stops£1,345

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Here are some of the best deals found on KAYAK recently from the most popular airlines for return flights from Manchester to the Maldives 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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Recent return flight deals from Manchester to the Maldives

Thu, 7 May - Mon, 11 May
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£472Multiple Airlines
Sun, 10 May - Mon, 18 May
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£484Multiple Airlines
Sat, 9 May - Thu, 14 May
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£508Multiple Airlines
Sun, 10 May - Mon, 18 May
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£508Multiple Airlines
Thu, 7 May - Mon, 11 May
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MAN
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£511Multiple Airlines
Sun, 26 Apr - Mon, 4 May
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£592SAUDIA
Tue, 21 Apr - Thu, 30 Apr
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£593Etihad Airways
Wed, 22 Apr - Wed, 29 Apr
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£595Etihad Airways
Sun, 9 Aug - Tue, 18 Aug
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£1,345Qatar Airways
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Booking Insights

KAYAK's insights & trends for Manchester to the Maldives flights

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

What is the cheapest month to fly from Manchester to the Maldives?

To calculate monthly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each month over the last year for round-trip flights from Manchester to the Maldives, 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 Manchester to the Maldives is November, when tickets cost £660 (return) on average. On the other hand, the most expensive months are December and July, when the average cost of return tickets is £969 and £905 respectively.

How far in advance should I book a flight from Manchester to the Maldives?

To calculate weekly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each week before departure over the last year for round-trip flights from Manchester to the Maldives, removes the top 0.1% to account for outliers, and then takes the average of all the values for each week.

To get a below-average price on a flight from Manchester to the Maldives, you should book around 3 weeks before departure, which saves you about 18% compared to booking last-minute. For the absolute cheapest price, our data suggests you should book 20 weeks before departure.

Good to know - Cheap tickets from Manchester to the Maldives

Low seasonDecember
Cheapest flight£446
Best time to beat the crowds but there is an average 26% increase in price.
Most popular time to fly and prices are also 12% lower on average.
Flight from Manchester to Malé

FAQs - booking Maldives flights

  • I'm travelling to the Maldives from Manchester to visit the capital city Malé. Where should I fly to?

    To access the capital city of Maldives from Manchester, you should fly into Malé International Airport, also known as Velana International Airport (MLE). Of the three international airports to serve the Maldives, MLE is the closest airport to the Malé city centre, accessible by car within 5 kilometres. The other international airports are located on different islands of the Maldives.

  • What cultural customs should I be aware of when travelling to the Maldives?

    It's important to respect different cultures and to be mindful of a country's religious beliefs when visiting. As the Maldives is an Islamic nation, there are things to be aware of when travelling as a tourist. For example, bringing alcohol into the Maldives is prohibited. Other things to be conscious of are the ban on pork, you may not bring with you religious books or idols of worship, and purchasing contraception is only available for married couples.

  • Which airlines provide sustainable travel to the Maldives from Manchester?

    Conscious of your carbon footprint? Flights to the Maldives from Manchester with Austrian Airlines have 44% less CO2 than other flights on this route. For a cheaper alternative, low-cost airlines Ryanair and Neos Air provide flights with 50% less CO2; however, they are less regular than Austrian Airlines.

  • Do I need a visa to travel to the Maldives from Manchester?

    Citizens from the United Kingdom do not require a visa before visiting the Maldives; a tourist visa of 30 days will be issued for you upon arrival. However, when you visit, you must fulfil the entry requirements. These consist of a valid passport valid for at least 1 month, sufficient funds for your trip, pre-booked accommodation, and a return flight home.

  • How does KAYAK find such low prices on flights from Manchester to the Maldives?

    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 Manchester to the Maldives.

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

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

    Hacker Fares allow you to combine one-way tickets in order to save you money over a traditional return ticket. You could then fly from Manchester to the Maldives 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 from Manchester to the Maldives?

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

Top tips for finding a cheap flight from Manchester to the Maldives

  • Flights to the Maldives from Manchester are long, with one or more stopovers. Rest beforehand at one of the lounges at Manchester Airport (MAN). You can choose between the Escape Lounge for about £24.60 per person or the exclusive 1903 for about £45 per person. Both provide dining options, such as food, hot and cold drinks, and alcoholic beverages, while you wait for your flight.
  • Manchester to the Maldives can take from one to two stopovers, with connecting flights in the Middle East. An alternative could be stopping to spend the night in Sri Lanka. From there, you can find direct flights to the Maldives for 1h 30mins.
  • Have you arrived in the Maldives with a dead phone? Look for the free charging points in the International Arrivals Terminal. Mobile charging stations are in gate areas 1, 2, and 3, the concourse area, the duty-free area, and the pier bridge at Male International Airport (MLE).
  • Airlines such as Emirates, Qatar, and British Airways have a vast network of air routes from Manchester to the Maldives, making these airlines the most reliable for good service and regular flights.
  • The Maldives are set to MTV time zone, which is 30 minutes behind Indian Standard Time. However, there may be a time difference when you arrive at your resort. This is because resorts add 1h to 1h 30 mins to their clocks to extend daylight hours. Keep this in mind so you can organise your schedule for your return flight.

Reviews of the top 5 airlines flying from Manchester to the Maldives

 
Need help choosing which airline to fly with from Manchester to the Maldives? 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.
7.4
Qatar AirwaysOverall score based on 3727 reviews
7.9Crew
7.4Comfort
7.3Entertainment
7.5Boarding
7.3Food
Airline reviews

My journey with Qatar Airways from Ahmedabad to Jacksonville on 3rd February 2026 was truly exceptional. The entire experience reflected comfort, care, and world-class service. Complimentary high-quality Wi-Fi throughout the journey was a welcome luxury, especially on a long-haul flight. The vegetarian meals were thoughtfully prepared, delicious, and served with attention to detail, along with a fine selection of snacks and beverages. What truly elevated the experience was the cabin crew — graceful, courteous, and genuinely attentive, delivering outstanding hospitality at every step. This journey perfectly showcased the premium standard Qatar Airways is known for, and it left a lasting impression. I would gladly fly with them again.

10.0 ExcellentAnonymous, Feb 2026
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My journey with Qatar Airways from Ahmedabad to Jacksonville on 3rd February 2026 was truly exceptional. The entire experience reflected comfort, care, and world-class service. Complimentary high-quality Wi-Fi throughout the journey was a welcome luxury, especially on a long-haul flight. The vegetarian meals were thoughtfully prepared, delicious, and served with attention to detail, along with a fine selection of snacks and beverages. What truly elevated the experience was the cabin crew — graceful, courteous, and genuinely attentive, delivering outstanding hospitality at every step. This journey perfectly showcased the premium standard Qatar Airways is known for, and it left a lasting impression. I would gladly fly with them again.

First off, it wasn't clear that my first flight was to be operated by IndiGO. While the flight itself was fine, this meant that my whole initial check in where I would've properly verified my seating on my Qatar flight/requested an upgrade was impeded by the fact that I had to check in with IndiGO. They said I would separately have to go to Qatar counter to deal with second flight leg issues, which was impossible given how long the check in took/no time available to do so.

Same as already mentioned. This was more comforting as I got my aisle seat for my knee.

excellent! movie selection just ok, but everything else was wonderful.

This flight was a very good trip for us. The crew were very friendly and helpful. They made arrangements for my husband to have assistance in boarding. We were not expecting a meal, so it was a pleasant surprise on this short flight to have a meal and beverage from a very courteous crew.

Nice airline. I was in a really weird seat which had extra leg room, but no basket or stowage. And the people next to me were pretty noisy during the flight, so it was hard to rest. I wish staff came around to pick up trash more often as I had no where to put it except my lap or the floor.

It was very good. It was a long flight and being a tight with little leg room.

Friendly and discreet staff. Could have done with a few more offers of water/snacks overnight. Movie and tv selection notably poor. Seats not especially comfortable

Lobster starter in business class was not good, tough, served cold, and without butter. Movie selection was missing latest releases, did not offer older classic, high quality movies

Awesome hospitality, awesome staff, awesome food & awesome travel time. Thanks

Business class ticket should include lounge access and seat selection. The food quality and varieties should be more. It was surpirise that no dessert was offered.

I liked the crew, the food and the foot space. I did not like the comfort of the seats.

It was mediocre. Honestly, the flight was late but that didn’t bother me as I had plenty of time. The only thing that bothered me is that the crew never asked to make the beds for us in business class. Maybe the crew was exhausted and that just didn’t occur to them.

Kayak and Aran grant issuing business class tickets without lounge access and sometimes 1 or 2 connections in economy class. It’s very disappointing to find out that after buying the ticket. Never buy tickets on kayak and Aran grant again

We have paid premium price for a business class Cabinet and we have received the old 777 with the following apart business class that is not to standard. It was very disappointing and it’s a very bad reputation for a premium airline company. This aeroplane should be the commission from being as a business class. We will pass this knowledge to our colleagues because the quality of business class in Etihad is not consistent and it is a lucky dip that sometimes you’re getting a good aeroplane and sometimes you’re getting their 30 years old aeroplane. The crew of the aeroplane have apologise and said that they hate this aeroplane and they have complained about it multiple times as well. Obviously Etihad is putting the economy in front of the Customer Experience. For the future we will not take this risk anymore and will fly with established company like emirates.

It was fantastic. The flight from Chicago to Abu Dahbi was fantastic. The crew, food and service were amazing. Everything was handled by the crew member assigned to us , Nicholas, was usually done before we asked for it. Highly recommend Etihad!

Etihad Check In counter/Station manager in Heathrow was bothering and not helpful at all. They are rude and not customer oriented

More leg space than other flights, but felt like *maybe* narrower seats?

Poor boarding with incorrect gate numbers. Poor service they told me to throw away brand new water bottles. Poor immigration officers most likely American who hates Muslims. Poor service in the plane with no Urdu language sign posted anywhere. Horrible seats with no comfort at all they think people traveling in economy are animals. Slow food and water services. Slow baggage arrival.

My baggage was not boarded and is still missing. I was only carring one piece of luggage and that is misplaced now I am stuck at mumbai without luggage. I had an onward journey from here

More entertainment channels and better food, whatever food requirement you select.

As I mentioned flight from NY to Bangalore was excellent but the return flight from Bahrain to NYC was mediocre, Looks like a old aircraft also not much choice in entertainment.

The flight from NY to Bangalore was very good but the return flight from Bahrain to NY was mediocre

Pretty much what you'd expect for an economy flight. The crew were excellent as usual. The food was ok, but nothing special.

Staff is rude and condescending. Airline is badly managed. They take away their flimsy earphones and blankets one hour before the lading. I’ve never experienced this with any other airline. It’s a very portly managed and run airline that should be avoided.

The Senior Flight attendant was just amazing on our Flight GF 284 on 30/11/25. She was so attentive, helpful and caring not just to us but to all in our cabin.

Loading was on time and quick Not very many people

Amazing business class in a single aisle plane. Fully flat seats, pyjamas, amenity kits, all in all a really complete product. Service was good - not amazing - but they did a good job. Got a few hours sleep. Will fly with them again if I can.

They flight was without ait conetion weather was very hot

Did not have to leave plane. However found the wait tiring with nearly a full plane boarding at Male and being unable to get out of seat due to cleaners security and a full plane boarding with hand luggage. Staff were excellent despite a long and tiring flight due to stopover.

Screens should work, Seating need to be comfortable, Luggage management was worse. Took 2 hours to get my luggage

Flight was delayed 110 mins.. Crew on Ground or in Air had no regrets.. No apologies... Very poor boarding process... Awful food and beverage choice.

Flight was delayed and due to this we almost miss the connection flight

The flight was delayed by 3 hours, causing me to miss my connecting international flight. I then had to wait in the airport 18 hours for the next flight. The reason for the delay was a computer issue, not something outside of their control like weather. To add insult to injury, instead of trying to expedite the flight to make up for lost time, they ran a carry-on baggage check to verify every bag onboard belonged to someone on the plane, which took another 20 minutes.

झूठा है इंडिगो फ्लाइट में मील दिया नहीं जब शिकायत किया तो बोला आपको मिल चुका है

It took a lot of time to declare that the flight gonna be cancelled ☹️ very disappointed.

Electronic check in is must these days. Food could be better.

They denied my meal which was included in ticket and also damaged my bag completely and broke the wheel and still not accepting their fault

As budget airline everything was good. Except that - boarding process can be more organised. Then if entertainment systems are not operational. Its better to keep them switch off.

Flight cancelled after 4+ hour delay. Indigo created a nightmare scenario and showed the most callus attitude towards the passengers I will refer to them was IndiNoGo!

It was not British Air, we were put onto Air Portugal for our London to Lisbon leg.

Everything was spectacular except the boarding. It was just a mob of people while all groups were called over the public address system.

BA code for a Vueling flight. All god but the temperature in the plane (too hot when engine not running but otherwise ok)

The Britts are wonderful to fly with and the crew were very hospitable. Again, I really wish they had been able to retrieve my carryon bag from baggage claim before the flight so I could be in a less worrisome state of mind, but that's not on them. I completely understand. The window seats with the dimmable windows were very cool!

There was a delay for the San Francisco-London flight, but we were all informed via text and email. The staff was very friendly and nice and the food was good. I do recommend that the airline offer something without eggs or something vegan for the vegetarian meal option. A lot of Indians are lacto-vegetarian, while some could be allergic to eggs/dairy.

food options were terrible. for a 10-hour flight, there should be 2 decent meals. Also, flight attendants should come around with drinks more than just at the meals.

Smooth flight. The seats were comfortable but the reclining mechanism didn't work very well. My wife's seat required the flight attendant to push the seat forward while she pushed the button. The leg support didn't want to return to its home under the seat. I ordered the diabetic meal which was full of carbs. It was low in sugar but carbs turn into sugar so was it really diabetic? Overall the flight was pleasant, long but pleasant.

Crew were nice, food was good. Boarding was horrendous. We were driven around the airport in a bus forced to climb a long flight of very steep stairs with no adequate handrails to board the plane . In many many years of flying to the US I have never been required to do this . There was no assistance for those needing help getting up the stairs to the plane. A fellow passenger helped me. No idea how other elderly, physically limited passengers or those with young children managed . It was a full flight with crowds trying to get up the stairs. It was an accident waiting to happen.

Food options limited and quality wasn’t very good. I was I was in premium economy and the people in front of me pushed their seats back to fully reclined position which made it difficult for me. My seat wouldn’t recline at all. I suggest that BA restrict the recliner more. Also, the audio in my headset didn’t work unless I held it in all the time. Entertainment choices were good. Customer services is excellent. Thank you to BA team.

Horrible, the plane is just old and junky...Filthy restroom, seat was as hard as rock. The food, mystery side dish, inedible..geez..just Horrible. Never flying BA again

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