R9 018 Find Cheap Flights from OR Tambo Airport, Johannesburg to North America

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Cheap Flights from OR Tambo to North America

Cheapest return prices found by our users on KAYAK in the last 72 hours
New York
Newark2 stopsR13 248
Atlanta
Atlanta1 stopR16 209
Los Angeles
Los Angeles1 stopR16 006
Toronto
Toronto2 stopsR13 604
Miami
Miami1 stopR16 328
Chicago
Chicago1 stopR14 636
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.1 stopR14 450
Dallas
Dallas1 stopR16 683
Denver
Denver2 stopsR16 531
Boston
Boston2 stopsR12 961
Seattle
Seattle1 stopR14 923
San Francisco
San Francisco1 stopR16 395
Houston
Houston1 stopR16 429
Tampa
Tampa1 stopR16 192
Las Vegas
Las Vegas1 stopR16 429
Fort Lauderdale
Fort Lauderdale2 stopsR17 309
New York
Newark2 stopsR13 248
Atlanta
Atlanta1 stopR16 209
Los Angeles
Los Angeles1 stopR16 006
Toronto
Toronto2 stopsR13 604
Miami
Miami1 stopR16 328
Chicago
Chicago1 stopR14 636
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.1 stopR14 450
Dallas
Dallas1 stopR16 683
Denver
Denver2 stopsR16 531
Boston
Boston2 stopsR12 961
Seattle
Seattle1 stopR14 923
San Francisco
San Francisco1 stopR16 395
Houston
Houston1 stopR16 429
Tampa
Tampa1 stopR16 192
Las Vegas
Las Vegas1 stopR16 429
Fort Lauderdale
Fort Lauderdale2 stopsR17 309

Book Cheap OR Tambo to North America 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 North America 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 North America

Tue, Feb 3 - Tue, Mar 17
Multiple Airlines Logo
19:35 - 16:15
JNB
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EWR
27h 40m2 stops
Multiple Airlines Logo
18:45 - 10:25
EWR
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JNB
33h 40m2 stops
R13 248Multiple Airlines
Tue, Feb 3 - Mon, Mar 16
Ethiopian Air Logo
14:30 - 8:00
JNB
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EWR
24h 30m2 stops
Ethiopian Air Logo
11:00 - 13:05
EWR
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JNB
20h 05m1 stop
R13 350Ethiopian Air
Fri, Mar 27 - Sat, Apr 11
Delta Logo
22:00 - 20:15
JNB
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YYZ
28h 15m2 stops
Delta Logo
16:45 - 21:20
YYZ
-
JNB
22h 35m1 stop
R13 604Delta
Thu, Jan 29 - Wed, Feb 11
British Airways Logo
22:00 - 16:00
JNB
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JFK
25h 00m1 stop
British Airways Logo
8:05 - 10:25
JFK
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JNB
19h 20m1 stop
R13 705British Airways
Thu, Jan 29 - Wed, Feb 11
British Airways Logo
22:00 - 12:35
JNB
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JFK
21h 35m1 stop
British Airways Logo
8:05 - 10:25
JFK
-
JNB
19h 20m1 stop
R13 807British Airways
Wed, Jan 21 - Thu, Jan 29
Virgin Atlantic Logo
22:00 - 16:30
JNB
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LGA
25h 30m2 stops
Virgin Atlantic Logo
13:00 - 19:00
LGA
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JNB
23h 00m1 stop
R14 128Virgin Atlantic
Mon, Jan 19 - Mon, Jan 26
Virgin Atlantic Logo
22:00 - 16:29
JNB
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DCA
25h 29m2 stops
Virgin Atlantic Logo
18:00 - 19:00
DCA
-
JNB
18h 00m1 stop
R14 805Virgin Atlantic
Tue, Feb 17 - Mon, Mar 30
United Airlines Logo
22:00 - 10:29
JNB
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DCA
19h 29m1 stop
United Airlines Logo
19:00 - 18:30
DCA
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JNB
17h 30m1 stop
R14 957United Airlines
Tue, Feb 17 - Sun, Mar 29
United Airlines Logo
22:00 - 10:29
JNB
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DCA
19h 29m1 stop
United Airlines Logo
17:00 - 18:30
DCA
-
JNB
19h 30m1 stop
R15 025United Airlines
Thu, Feb 26 - Thu, Mar 19
KLM Logo
23:59 - 15:40
JNB
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YYZ
22h 41m1 stop
KLM Logo
22:15 - 22:05
YYZ
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JNB
41h 50m1 stop
R17 021KLM
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KAYAK's insights & trends for OR Tambo to North America flights

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

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

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

The cheapest ticket to North America from Johannesburg OR Tambo Airport found in the last 72 hours was to Atlanta, at R13 167 return. The most popular route is from Johannesburg OR Tambo Airport (JNB) to Newark Airport (EWR), and the cheapest round-trip airline ticket found on this route in the last 72 hours was R14 229.

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

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 R16 821, prices are generally cheapest when you fly direct.

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

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 North America, 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 North America is February, when tickets cost R14 365 (return) on average. On the other hand, the most expensive months are January and August, when the average cost of return tickets is R17 005 and R16 852 respectively.

What’s the cheapest day of the week to fly from OR Tambo Airport, Johannesburg to North America?

The average price of all round-trip flights from Johannesburg OR Tambo Airport to North America clicked on KAYAK for each day over the last 12 months.

If you are looking for a flight deal from OR Tambo Airport, Johannesburg to North America, look for departures on Wednesdays and avoid leaving on a Sunday, as it's usually the priciest day. When flying back from North America, Monday is the cheapest day to fly and Thursday is the most expensive.

How far in advance should I book a flight from Johannesburg OR Tambo Airport to North America?

To calculate weekly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each week before departure over the last year for round-trip flights from Johannesburg OR Tambo Airport to North America, 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 Johannesburg OR Tambo Airport to North America, you should book around 2 weeks before departure, which saves you about 7% compared to booking last-minute. For the absolute cheapest price, our data suggests you should book 8 weeks before departure.

Good to know

Low seasonJanuary
Cheapest flightR8 748
Best time to beat the crowds but there is an average 1% increase in price.
Most popular time to fly (7% more expensive on average)
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FAQs - booking North America flights

  • How does KAYAK find such low prices on flights from OR Tambo Airport, Johannesburg to North America?

    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 OR Tambo Airport, Johannesburg to North America.

  • How does KAYAK's flight Price Forecast tool help me choose the right time to buy my flight ticket from OR Tambo Airport, Johannesburg to North America?

    KAYAK’s flight Price Forecast tool uses historical data to determine whether the price for a flight from OR Tambo Airport, Johannesburg to North America 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 OR Tambo Airport, Johannesburg to North America?

    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 North America 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 North America?

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

  • What is the cheapest time of day to fly to North America?

    The cheapest time of day to fly to North America is generally in the evening, when retur flights cost R13 666 on average. Morning departures are around 100% cheaper than evening flights, on average. The most expensive time of day to fly to North America is generally at night, which is peak travel time and where the average cost of a ticket is R20 358.

Reviews of the top 5 airlines flying from OR Tambo to North America

 
Need help choosing which airline to fly with from OR Tambo to North America? 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.
7,7
KLMOverall score based on 1430 reviews
7,2Food
7,6Comfort
8,3Crew
7,8Boarding
7,1Entertainment
Airline reviews

Delay on my previous leg, had to run to catch my flight. But that happens. Overall ok.

8,0 ExcellentKevin, Nov 2025
AMS - BOD
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Delay on my previous leg, had to run to catch my flight. But that happens. Overall ok.

Delay and had to run between flight to get my connection due to this delay but besides that the overall experience was ok. I arrived with just an hour of delay.

Flight was ok but lack of communication cost me to literally beg to be put on another flight as connecting flight had departed

They forgot to serve food and the crew was very unfriendly. Never experienced such a bad KLM flight. Usually fly from Toronto. New York was different.

Couldn’t get boarding pass in SLC even with help from a redcoat, so had to find a desk in AMS to get boarding pass. Technical problems so not sure why. Very inconvenient. The KLM app is not as user friendly as most apps. Also had to wait almost an hour on the tarmac for a fuel truck, which caused us to miss a connecting bus in LUX.

The immigration hall in Amsterdam was understaffed, so passport checking was slower than it should be for a major airport. They need to get the automatic readers up and running for non EU passport holders. Waiting in line after a long flight feels a bit abusive.

Over 1 Hr delay. No APU so no AC on ground. Plane was hot during boarding and then they closed the doors over 20 minutes before engine start so interior of plane was steamy hot and stuffy. Could have been helped by opening doors until ready to depart.

Ad experience - been flying many years with them but they are losing out to other carriers with their service and bagage / seating policy. My 2 12-yo kids were not placed with the parent. Absurdity.

KLM remains a quality flag carrier airline which maintains its standards whilst all their competitors are lowering theirs.

The baggage drop-off in Stuttgart is bad: after online check-in you cannot use the automated baggage drop off as indicated on the website. You can use the terminals but have to cue to 1 of three open and slowly working counters to drop the bags. took about 45 minutes wait time.

Food has been disappointing in both legs of flight to india

Great staff great experience, made a 2 hour delay very bearable

Great staff, great experience, made a 2 hour delay very bearable

Food was the worst I’ve had on a VA flight. Normally it’s a lot better

I was my pleasure to fly virgin on my birthday for my first solo trip ever 🫶🏼

These are one of the older seat arrangements facing away from the windows! Not particularly convenient sets. No storage spaces. NO COAT HANGING HOOKS. Inconvenient business class seat compared to any other airlines of similar class. Staff are excellent! Extremely professional, friendly. Food is good too.

Overall, flight was excellent but check in was very slow for Premium Economy. Economy queue was shorter but we weren't allowed to use it.

The staff was not very polite but the flight was very very nice and comfortable and the entertainment was great

Great crew - old style upper class seats on the older fleet now feels dated

Premium economy more comfortable than economy, but not by much. Did was awful, do not try the omelette. Flight crew were helpful. Flight was delayed by over an hour. Overall but bad, arrived safely and thank God.

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.

Flight and crew were great. United didn't inform crew of immigration process which was disappointing!

The flight attendants were very rude, beyond comprehension. I took a business class from London to SFO for the first time on United. When I asked for a second piece of bread during dinner, the serving attendant threw a 3rd bread on my plate and said, “here. You can have this one too”! I couldn’t believe the rudeness of the attendant. Most all attendants were very rude, unhelpful, sing the food was absolutely disgusting. Never fly United internationally in business class. My flight back to SFO was a nightmare!!

Not enough veg food available for passengers. I actually did not get the veg food and was told it was over, and I starved the entire flight duration.

Flight from Rome to SFO was excellent compared To our flight to Europe from SFO. The food was much tastier. You can see how UNITED is skimping, though. Instead of getting something mid flight you had to ask for it. It was not automatically served. There was a cookie at the end of the arrival meal, for example that tasted like it just came out of a box. They used to serve a little container of nuts, now … a tiny container of nuts, mixed with pretzels. This was business class that you really have to pay for! But this is minor complaints compared to the overall. My major complaint is the position of the even numbered seats by the windows. You have to turn around to see your window & the positioning as some other controls are harder to get at. This is compared to the odd number seat that are perfectly aligned.

The person I bought the ticket for didn’t make the flight.

Crew was dismissive. Snacks and refills not offered. Poor business class experience. Bed not comfortable compared to Emirates or BA.

Inoperable monitor left no entertainment for 9 hours. The crew was not helpful. Food was awful.

Awful. There was a minor problem with a fridge and they had us 2 hours in the runway before take off. The paper work alone took them half hour. There was no attemp to make up time up while in teansit and when we arrived, they had us another half hour in the plane because of traffic. I, and a bunch of people, lost their onnection flights for 5 to 10 minutes. Not even the attemp to wait given thar all delays, but the taxing, were United's fault. Then another 45 mins to get an agent and no flight alternatives for 2 days. Im am very disapointed with this "premium carrier".

Evidently, my seat had the only broken TV. I couldn’t plug it in, get it to come on, or watch anything, and of course, no one could fix it while we were on the plane. The service was good and the boarding was quick

Excellent service despite turbulence during the flight. Flight attendants were remarkable!

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

charging port did not work, no entertainment system. Other than that the flight was good and safe.

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.

Our original booking with Kayak -our first experience -was exactly what we wanted and worked well. Updates were friendly and reassuring as were the contacts with UnderPricer so a big win-win. We learned a lot on your reliability and will definitely put you on our organisational list for the future.

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