R4 545 Find Cheap Flights from OR Tambo Airport, Johannesburg to Europe

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Cheap Flights from OR Tambo to Europe

Cheapest return prices found by our users on KAYAK in the last 72 hours
Cologne
Cologne2 stopsR10 922
London
London1 stopR9 663
Amsterdam
Amsterdam1 stopR10 546
Istanbul
Istanbul1 stopR8 846
Paris
Paris1 stopR9 794
Lisbon
Lisbon3 stopsR10 448
Rome
Rome1 stopR9 009
Athens
Athens1 stopR9 320
Manchester
Manchester1 stopR10 775
Dublin
Dublin1 stopR10 399
Frankfurt am Main
Frankfurt am Main1 stopR10 513
Milan
Milan1 stopR9 565
Munich
Munich1 stopR9 957
Zurich
Zurich2 stopsR10 072
Madrid
Madrid1 stopR8 747
Copenhagen
Copenhagen1 stopR10 448
Brussels
Brussels1 stopR9 761
Nice
Nice1 stopR12 034
Cologne
Cologne2 stopsR10 922
London
London1 stopR9 663
Amsterdam
Amsterdam1 stopR10 546
Istanbul
Istanbul1 stopR8 846
Paris
Paris1 stopR9 794
Lisbon
Lisbon3 stopsR10 448
Rome
Rome1 stopR9 009
Athens
Athens1 stopR9 320
Manchester
Manchester1 stopR10 775
Dublin
Dublin1 stopR10 399
Frankfurt am Main
Frankfurt am Main1 stopR10 513
Milan
Milan1 stopR9 565
Munich
Munich1 stopR9 957
Zurich
Zurich2 stopsR10 072
Madrid
Madrid1 stopR8 747
Copenhagen
Copenhagen1 stopR10 448
Brussels
Brussels1 stopR9 761
Nice
Nice1 stopR12 034

Book Cheap OR Tambo to Europe Plane Tickets

 
Here are some of the best deals found on KAYAK recently from the most popular airlines for return flights from OR Tambo to Europe 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 OR Tambo to Europe

Fri, Apr 3 - Fri, Apr 10
Qatar Airways Logo
14:45 - 12:10
JNB
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SAW
20h 25m1 stop
Qatar Airways Logo
13:35 - 9:00
SAW
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JNB
20h 25m1 stop
R8 846Qatar Airways
Thu, Jan 22 - Wed, Feb 4
Qatar Airways Logo
20:30 - 18:40
JNB
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IST
21h 10m1 stop
Qatar Airways Logo
20:10 - 3:55
IST
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JNB
32h 45m1 stop
R8 846Qatar Airways
Thu, Mar 26 - Tue, Mar 31
Lufthansa Logo
19:45 - 7:45
JNB
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LHR
14h 00m1 stop
Lufthansa Logo
13:40 - 6:40
LHR
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JNB
16h 00m1 stop
R9 663Lufthansa
Sun, Jan 18 - Sun, Jan 25
KLM Logo
23:59 - 17:25
JNB
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SAW
16h 26m1 stop
KLM Logo
9:00 - 22:05
SAW
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JNB
38h 05m1 stop
R9 745KLM
Sun, Jan 18 - Sun, Jan 25
KLM Logo
23:59 - 17:25
JNB
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SAW
16h 26m1 stop
KLM Logo
9:00 - 22:05
SAW
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JNB
38h 05m1 stop
R9 761KLM
Thu, Jan 22 - Tue, Jan 27
SWISS Logo
20:15 - 8:05
JNB
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LHR
13h 50m1 stop
SWISS Logo
14:25 - 10:30
LHR
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JNB
18h 05m2 stops
R9 761SWISS
Sun, Jan 18 - Sun, Jan 25
Lufthansa Logo
10:10 - 8:25
JNB
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CDG
23h 15m1 stop
Lufthansa Logo
10:20 - 9:30
CDG
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JNB
22h 10m1 stop
R9 794Lufthansa
Wed, Jan 21 - Tue, Feb 3
SWISS Logo
20:15 - 18:50
JNB
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CDG
23h 35m1 stop
SWISS Logo
15:00 - 10:30
CDG
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JNB
18h 30m1 stop
R9 827SWISS
Thu, Feb 19 - Thu, Feb 26
Turkish Airlines Logo
19:10 - 9:20
JNB
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LGW
16h 10m1 stop
Turkish Airlines Logo
10:20 - 10:50
LGW
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JNB
22h 30m1 stop
R10 791Turkish Airlines
Wed, Apr 1 - Tue, Apr 7
Turkish Airlines Logo
18:00 - 16:50
JNB
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STN
23h 50m1 stop
Turkish Airlines Logo
17:45 - 10:30
STN
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JNB
15h 45m1 stop
R10 971Turkish Airlines
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KAYAK's insights & trends for OR Tambo to Europe flights

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

What is the cheapest Johannesburg OR Tambo Airport to Europe flight route?

Data is based on round-trip flight searches on KAYAK over the past month.

The cheapest ticket to Europe from Johannesburg OR Tambo Airport found in the last 72 hours was to Frankfurt am Main, at R9 227 return. The most popular route is from Johannesburg OR Tambo Airport (JNB) to London Heathrow Airport (LHR), and the cheapest round-trip airline ticket found on this route in the last 72 hours was R11 792.

Can I save money by flying with a stopover from Johannesburg OR Tambo Airport to Europe?

The average return price for all direct flights, flights with one stopover, and flights with two stopovers for the route found by users searching on KAYAK in the last 2 weeks.

No, with an average price for the route of R12 790, prices are generally cheapest when you fly direct.

What is the cheapest month to fly from Johannesburg OR Tambo Airport to Europe?

To calculate monthly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each month over the last year for round-trip flights from Johannesburg OR Tambo Airport to Europe, 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 Johannesburg OR Tambo Airport to Europe is February, when tickets cost R11 903 (return) on average. On the other hand, the most expensive months are August and July, when the average cost of return tickets is R17 184 and R14 634 respectively.

Good to know

Low seasonJanuary
Cheapest flightR4 545
Best time to beat the crowds (4% less expensive on average)
Most popular time to fly (4% more expensive on average)
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Flights from OR Tambo to Europe: the best tips from KAYAK users

Insights shared by verified travellers who flew the route from OR Tambo to Europe 
Verified travelerFlew with British Airways
JNB
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LHR
Apr 2025
Allowing three hours for Heathrow transit is a good estimate.
GregFlew with Lufthansa
JNB
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FRA
Apr 2025
Get through security early at Johannesburg, they are rude, aggressive and obstructive. Pathetic.
SihleFlew with Turkish Airlines
JNB
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IST
May 2024
Friendly and helpful staff at Johannesburg Airport, clear signage to terminal and gates
Verified travelerFlew with British Airways
JNB
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LHR
Jan 2024
None really. It’s a long, but straight forward flight. If you can afford premium economy or better, do it for the comfort.

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  • What is the Hacker Fare option on flights from OR Tambo Airport, Johannesburg to Europe?

    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 OR Tambo Airport, Johannesburg to Europe 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 OR Tambo Airport, Johannesburg to Europe?

    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 OR Tambo Airport, Johannesburg to Europe up to 3 days before/after your preferred dates. You can then pick the flights that suit you best.

Top tips for finding cheap flights to Europe

  • Looking for a cheap flight? 25% of our users found tickets from OR Tambo Airport, Johannesburg to the following destinations at these prices or less: Frankfurt am Main R8 024 one-way - R11 697 round-trip; Istanbul R6 961 one-way - R10 721 round-trip; London R8 301 one-way - R13 359 round-trip

Reviews of the top 5 airlines flying from OR Tambo to Europe

 
Need help choosing which airline to fly with from OR Tambo to Europe? 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.
8,1
EmiratesOverall score based on 3461 reviews
8,1Boarding
7,9Food
8,0Comfort
8,3Crew
8,2Entertainment
Airline reviews

Mostly good and consistent of Emirates service. Christmas menu was great initiative and tasted good. Taking the bus from terminal to the plane spoilt the experience a little.

8,0 ExcellentWoei, Dec 2025
DXB - LYS
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Mostly good and consistent of Emirates service. Christmas menu was great initiative and tasted good. Taking the bus from terminal to the plane spoilt the experience a little.

There is an issue with A380 when it arrives in Munich, because a business class passengers like me have to wait for the first class passengers to disembark, which takes some time while you are also offloading economy passengers this causes an issue at customs where your business class passengers end up behind a large bulk of economy passengers This is a frustration and the early dislocation should be and is supposed to be a benefit of business class

Warm staff, very responsive service. Well furnished cabin and comfortable seat and amenities. Excellent onboard wifi connection and very large comfortable restrooms.

in today's time, an airline like emirates didnt serve drinks as requested, Excuse was full flight.

the seat is quite narrow compared to others. entertainment and food were very good

This was my first time flying with Emirates. Overall, the experience was very good. I thought the seats in economy would have been a bit more comfortable, but, they seem to be on par with other airlines. The food was excellent and very satisfying. If you can afford it, I would definitely suggest upgrading to at lest premium economy seats for long haul flights.

The flight from Beijing to Dubai was good. The flight from Dubai to Barcelona was excellent because of the staff on board.

Premium Economy was not up to my expectation relaxation wise. The chair doesn’t extend enough. It is not economy but not spacious enough to relax and sleep. Food and services were excellent but I am not very keen about food in general.

Over - amazing. The aircraft is somewhat old on this route.

Food no so good. Extra charge to much for front seats cost me £163 then other people sat near me for nothing 🤬

It was little disheartening and disappointing. Although flight staff did a good job. But customer service didn’t do anything to resolve my issue.

As good as you can expect an economy flight from Europe to Australia to be. Nothing agains Qatar, just feels like every new generation of plane gets tighter.

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

Good. It would be great if comfort seats were available

My flight was delayed. I was rebooked twice and even the second flight that was additional connection in London was delayed too, so I ended up spending more than 24 hours flying between four different countries and to be honest I’m not sure whether I ever want to use this airline again. My luggage is still delete. It’s been more than 48 hours now so to be honest, I’m not even sure how to describe the level of frustration I have.

I wish the leg room was better for Economy especially for the outbound flights to India . The outbound flight to US and Qatar was good

The flight was operated by IndiGo and not Qatar, which is a budget airline from India. Nevertheless, the flight was uneventful.

I prebooked a comfort plus seat on this flight and therefore the flight was comfy. I got the correct seat in the correct section of the plane that I have booked, that's this. Flight was comfortable. Staff were average on the flight, appearing to be rushed and short in engagement with travellers, perhaps this to maximise there rest time on the flight.

The staff was great and probably that's the single most thing that distinguished this particular Qatar flight from my average typical experience. They genuinely wanted to please you and do their best.

The Achilles heel of the experience with Qatar Airways is the Doha Airport, especially for travellers arriving into Doha and not transiting. This airport suffers from being ambitiously big and the immigration into Qatar being overly time taking. At the end of my particular flight in which my travel was ending in Doha, the plane parked at a very remote terminal, from where it took me 30 minutes to arrive just at the immigration counter, with fast paced walking and the time on a train inside the airport. Then, at the immigration counter it takes up to a minute or more to process each tourist visitor,due to time taking face and finger scanning processes and langugage barriers if there are questions or information to be exchanged verbally with the officers. If several planes have landed at the same time, it is not unusual that one has to wait 45 to 60 minutes in the immigration queue. In short, the frustration of arriving at Doha takes away all positive vibe of the airline, as the airline and the airport are heavily intertwined and are marketed together.

Turkish Airline canceled our tickets in the very last minute, with our luggage and everything else, all prepared and good to go. It’s clear that they sold the tickets for better money to someone else. Bad, Bad, Bad business!!!

Luggage never made it it’s been 2 days and no proper update

This is not business class. This is premium economy. Total scam to sell this as business class

Horrible, hated every part of it. They do not have business class- just tried to make one row. Boarding was a mess- felt like hungry people fighting for food. Will never ever travel in Indigo

So boarding is a little slow when you fly 787 but on the 777 the business class had its own entrance. The entertainment can be a little bit more up to date Other than that it was a great experience food and service was great

As a big guy the seats are way too small for me. Would prefer more comfortable seats on these long haul flights.

Bad confort, bad seat take advantage of the political conflict to double the price

Worst experience with boarding once we left the wheel chair even traveling business we had to wait with all the crowd for the bus to take us to the plane then climb the stairs with our bags When you pay extra for comfort and convenience and you don’t get any is disappointing

Boarded via bus instead of the air bridge Had to wait 10mins in the bus at the tarmac before we were allow to go up

The food and drinks were below the normal standard we expect from Turkish Airlines. On a 4 hour flight we received 1 drinks service and 1 food service, the latter was a cheese omlete, which is well below what we have received in the past, such a shame we always recommend this airline..

Welp - they boarded us appropriately...then had us sit on the plane for over two hours before cancelling the flight...which meant another night in Munich. I probably had it a little better than most as over 500 people had to be accommodated/re-booked etc. The next day I boarded the same flight (for which I had now been ticketed 3 straight days) and - with "only" an hour delay, managed to finally get home over 2 days later than scheduled. I haven't flown Lufthansa to Europe in years...and I won't be looking to do so again in the future. To be clear, though, the people I interacted with - flight crew, Service Center, check-in were all professional and courteous - management is clearly to blame for their lack of communication and unpreparedness for when things go wrong.

It was a short flight. Plenty of room on the plane. It was also extremely clean.

The crew was very nice. The equipment on the 747 felt old.

Great experience. Flight was on time and reached destination on time

The United Airlines crew that operated this flight was subpar. They didn’t

This is one of the best flights i had. Good boarding, good seats , good food, and nuce stuff and clean toilets I took the Tourist upgrade and indianischer food , the best.

Excellent once on board. Security staff at Johannesburg rude and aggressive.

It was good, but I felt a little cramp on the plane whether I was in Economy or not.

They offered water and chocolate I would have preferred a sandwich.

Plane was crowded, seats narrow, legroom nearly nonexistent. The entertainment feature didn't work for my row and nobody was able to/interested in trying to repair it. This flight was in direct contrast to a very comfortable Lufthansa flight from RDU to Frankfurt about a week earlier.

The transit at Heathrow was an absolute and total nightmare. Absolutely gut wrenchingly horrible and scary. Embarrassing that their National air carrier cannot figure a half decent experience for passengers to transit via London. Shameful.

Check-in and boarding were great. On flight staff were rude and disrespectful. Paid for extra room and found it incredibly cramped. Bathrooms kept in poor condition. Overall negative experience.

Great on board entertainment Tasty food Cattle class obviously crammed but not as bad as shorter hall flights

I don't know about the others but the flight attendant that took care of us had the absolute wrong approach "how do we dare asking for water or anything else for that matter"

Terrible service especially for premium economy. Much more comfortable seats on other providers

Friendly hosts/hostesses; dinner was of acceptable, but mediocre standard

They removed our booking without telling us. Cost us thousands to book last minute

A little better than outward journey but mild chaos at the boarding gate because some people with boarding cards from connecting flights had cards which weren't recognised

Hand bag was taken to be checked in at boarding gate

The flight from Seattle was delayed, which made me miss my connection to Florence. I was re-booked NINE HOURS LATER!!! That’s basically a vacation day lost. British Airways needs to partner with other airlines when possible to get a more realistic travel time, if delays occur. I realize there aren’t many flights to Florence from London, so I would book differently were I to return. The actual flight from Seattle was very comfortable and the crew was great, no faults there. I enjoy British Airways, this was an anomaly.

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