R6 240 Find Cheap Flights from London Gatwick Airport to South Africa

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Best South Africa Flight Deals from Gatwick

Cheapest return prices found by our users on KAYAK in the last 72 hours
Cape Town
Cape TowndirectR9 306
Durban
Durban2 stopsR13 107
Port Elizabeth
Port Elizabeth2 stopsR19 204
George
George2 stopsR20 118
Polokwane
Polokwane2 stopsR17 984
Cape Town
Cape TowndirectR9 306
Durban
Durban2 stopsR13 107
Port Elizabeth
Port Elizabeth2 stopsR19 204
George
George2 stopsR20 118
Polokwane
Polokwane2 stopsR17 984

Cheap Flights from Gatwick to South Africa

 
Here are some of the best deals found on KAYAK recently from the most popular airlines for return flights from Gatwick to South Africa 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 Gatwick to South Africa

Mon, Oct 6 - Thu, Oct 16
Norse Atlantic UK Logo
9:10 - 21:45LGW-CPT
11h 35mdirect
Norse Atlantic UK Logo
0:30 - 11:15CPT-LGW
11h 45mdirect
R9 306Norse Atlantic UK
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Mon, Oct 6 - Thu, Oct 16
Norse Atlantic UK Logo
9:10 - 21:45LGW-CPT
11h 35mdirect
Norse Atlantic UK Logo
0:30 - 11:15CPT-LGW
11h 45mdirect
R9 324Norse Atlantic UK
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Thu, Oct 30 - Sun, Nov 9
Ethiopian Air Logo
10:00 - 3:55LGW-JNB
15h 55m1 stop
Ethiopian Air Logo
14:30 - 5:10JNB-LGW
16h 40m1 stop
R10 507Ethiopian Air
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Thu, Oct 30 - Sat, Nov 15
Ethiopian Air Logo
10:00 - 3:55LGW-JNB
15h 55m1 stop
Ethiopian Air Logo
14:30 - 5:10JNB-LGW
16h 40m1 stop
R10 687Ethiopian Air
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Tue, Sep 2 - Tue, Sep 30
Turkish Airlines Logo
5:30 - 10:35LGW-JNB
28h 05m1 stop
Turkish Airlines Logo
17:50 - 22:20JNB-LGW
29h 30m1 stop
R12 874Turkish Airlines
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Tue, Sep 2 - Tue, Sep 30
Turkish Airlines Logo
10:55 - 10:35LGW-JNB
22h 40m1 stop
Turkish Airlines Logo
17:50 - 9:55JNB-LGW
17h 05m1 stop
R12 892Turkish Airlines
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Mon, Dec 1 - Wed, Jan 14
Emirates Logo
20:25 - 17:10LGW-DUR
18h 45m1 stop
Emirates Logo
19:10 - 18:25DUR-LGW
25h 15m1 stop
R18 487Emirates
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Mon, Dec 1 - Mon, Dec 15
Emirates Logo
9:40 - 17:10LGW-DUR
29h 30m1 stop
Emirates Logo
19:10 - 11:40DUR-LGW
18h 30m1 stop
R18 522Emirates
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Fri, Oct 24 - Sat, Nov 22
Qatar Airways Logo
14:55 - 10:35LGW-DUR
18h 40m2 stops
Qatar Airways Logo
11:55 - 12:35DUR-LGW
26h 40m2 stops
R19 311Qatar Airways
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Mon, Sep 1 - Sun, Sep 21
Qatar Airways Logo
14:55 - 15:05LGW-PLZ
47h 10m2 stops
Qatar Airways Logo
15:45 - 13:25PLZ-LGW
22h 40m2 stops
R20 459Qatar Airways
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KAYAK's insights & trends for Gatwick to South Africa flights

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

What is the cheapest London Gatwick Airport to South Africa flight route?

The cheapest price for flight routes found by users searching on KAYAK in the last 2 weeks for round-trip flights from London Gatwick Airport to South Africa.

The cheapest ticket to South Africa from London Gatwick Airport found in the last 72 hours was to Cape Town, at R12 459 return. The most popular route is from London Gatwick Airport (LGW) to Cape Town (CPT), and the cheapest round-trip airline ticket found on this route in the last 72 hours was R12 459.

Can I save money by flying with a stopover from London Gatwick Airport to South Africa?

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.

Yes, flying with a stopover may cost you more time, but you can also save money on the route, with a 1 stop stopover the cheapest option at R16 872 on average.

What is the cheapest month to fly from London Gatwick Airport to South Africa?

To calculate monthly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each month over the last year for round-trip flights from London Gatwick Airport to South Africa, 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 London Gatwick Airport to South Africa is March, when tickets cost R11 673 (return) on average. On the other hand, the most expensive months are December and July, when the average cost of return tickets is R20 602 and R20 154 respectively.

What’s the cheapest day of the week to fly from London Gatwick Airport to South Africa?

The average price of all round-trip flights from London Gatwick Airport to South Africa clicked on KAYAK for each day over the last 12 months.

If your flying dates are flexible, you should consider flying to South Africa on a Sunday, as we generally find the cheapest rates on that day for this route. On the other hand, Saturday is the most expensive day to fly from London Gatwick Airport to South Africa. For your return ticket, we recommend flying on a Monday and avoiding Saturdays for the best deals.

How far in advance should I book a flight from London Gatwick Airport to South Africa?

To calculate weekly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each week before departure over the last year for round-trip flights from London Gatwick Airport to South Africa, 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 the flight from London Gatwick Airport to South Africa, you should book around 2 weeks before departure. For the absolute cheapest price, our data suggests you should book 17 weeks before departure.


Good to know

Low seasonJuly
High seasonMarch
Cheapest flightR6 240
Best time to beat the crowds but there is an average 40% increase in price.
Most popular time to fly and prices are also 20% lower on average.
Flight from London Gatwick Airport to Cape Town

FAQs - booking South Africa flights

  • How does KAYAK find such low prices on flights from London Gatwick Airport to South Africa?

    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 London Gatwick Airport to South Africa.

  • How does KAYAK's flight Price Forecast tool help me choose the right time to buy my flight ticket from London Gatwick Airport to South Africa?

    KAYAK’s flight Price Forecast tool uses historical data to determine whether the price for a flight from London Gatwick Airport to South Africa 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 London Gatwick Airport to South Africa?

    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 London Gatwick Airport to South Africa 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 London Gatwick Airport to South Africa?

    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 London Gatwick Airport to South Africa 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 South Africa?

    The cheapest time of day to fly to South Africa is generally in the morning, when retur flights cost R771 on average. Morning departures are around 15% cheaper than evening flights, on average. The most expensive time of day to fly to South Africa is generally at night, which is peak travel time and where the average cost of a ticket is R1 098.

Top tips for finding cheap flights to South Africa

  • Looking for a cheap flight? 25% of our users found tickets from London Gatwick Airport to the following destinations at these prices or less: Cape Town R8 709 one-way - R14 569 round-trip

Top 5 airlines serving from Gatwick to South Africa

 
Need help choosing which airline to fly with from Gatwick to South Africa? 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 3266 reviews
7,8Food
8,3Crew
8,0Comfort
8,2Entertainment
8,1Boarding
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Very pleasant.The crews are very helpful.Food are very good.

10,0 ExcellentPaul, Jun 2025BKK - DXB
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Very pleasant.The crews are very helpful.Food are very good.

The seating is spaced out nicely, The crew could have offer more drinks.

Emirates is superb service. The A380 was very comfortable. The cabin crew is really helpful

The best ever, friendly and attentive cabin crew, amazing captains who utilised their expertise for less turbulence, just overall amazing

Overall I was quite pleased with the experience; the cleanliness; the polite and attentiveness of the cabin crew; and the delicious food options.

It was great, a little more leg room would have been better particularly since we were in premium economy

Excellent comfort and entertainment. Service poor..Food average with little choice.

Comfort good. Service as usual poor. Cabin temperature as usual too cold, about 15 degrees

Boarding, seats, entertainment and service were all great. The food was great except for the fact that there were too many sweet items.

Poor flight aircraft very old Crew was friendly 1 person though

Bad experience; they are not good anymore. They charge too much for luggage seat are so uncomfortable, Flight delays which may miss your next flight, they don’t care if you miss the flight or not. Zero customer services for front desk representatives Istanbul's airport I’m not using this airline any more.

Working stuffs in flight are very welcoming,but boarding stuffs are the Ghana airport don't know their job.

The segment bkk ist was ok. The segment ist to yul the boarding was chaotic with 5 control before get in the plain, in addition to normal control by scanner and metal detector during transfert

One of the best flights I have been on in a while. Food was excellent. The chair-back screens in economy were A+. The crew was friendly and helpful.

Turkish Airlines overbooked the flight and they did not allow me to board the flight even though I had the proper boarding pass and was at the gate on time. Simply unacceptable.

Make sure to request a vegetarian meal in advance. They printed out menus for all passengers with the options but by the time they were halfway through (for breakfast and dinner), the vegetarian options were already all taken.

I liked the ability to walk and stand in the crew area. I hated the security check experience before boarding. The airport staff were so rude, yelling at us unnecessarily, delaying us on purpose, and even threatening to call the police on us!

Very old plane on the Istanbul to Bangkok flight, had an emergency exit isle row, no where to put anything, on a plus point loads of leg room. Food was the best I have had in 39 years of flying.

Old aircraft, very very low business class standards, no privacy between the seats, horrible old TVs, tiny bathrooms.

Very good except the boarding process too forever and wasn’t organized by group. I had a heavy pack or I wouldn’t have minded. I was in business. There were no audible announcements in the waiting area about boarding and everyone packed into the boarding area. Then boarding stopped for a long time but the staff made no announcements to update waiting passengers about the holdup. The flight was good after we got on.

Great experience. The flight was smooth with very little turbulence. We were in premium classic, so lots of leg room.

Didn’t know you had to pay for earbuds and food on flight. Sounds awesome and better way to not waste food or items. Comfort of flight is was amazing other than that

Unexpectedly was surprised with the space on flight in economy and the price.

I was not expecting having to pay for headphones, water and basic food in a 9 hours flight. Price for this flight was as high as any other, still I had to pay 4 lbs for a can of sprite. On top of that flight attendance gave a bothered look when I asked her for some ice for my soda. She reluctantly when to get it, brought me literally 3 cubes and walked away without looking at me to avoid another request. I couldn’t believe it. She was soooo rude. I will never book on Norse again and I will let everyone I know about this. Unforgivable, very bad customer service.

Great crew. Customer support is pretty much non existent. I had 2 tickets that were not used, the flight was overbooked. I think I should have been reimbursed for the unused tickets.

The movies were super old. The crew did not offer WATER???? 5 hours os flight and did not get WATER? Norse is the worst company I ever used and never will use again.

Why call us to board if we’re going to be made to stand in the tunnel for 20 minutes. Really hard for people with little children. Plus it took me ages to check in because my seat in Premium was overbooked so I didn’t actually have a seat. I did end up receiving my seat in Premium but there was a lot of stress and confusion beforehand. Hope is it possible to overbook seats? Especially in Premium!

We flew one way from Gatwick, London to JFK NY For 2 people $1200 and no food offered not even water. You had to buy food. Norse advertises as a low fare transatlantic airline, they may want rethink that. Crew, flight was fine. Ironically we flew American from JFK to Heathrow for $1000 (2people) and included food and drinks.

Longest check in line I have ever seen- brutal and airline personnel hustled me about the size of my bag even though I showed them that it measured exactly to the measurements posted on their site. Just super annoying- I get it - it’s a budget airline and you get what you pay for. Most of the flight were young people who seemed to have never experienced international travel. It’s worth paying for a seat otherwise you will be uncomfortable.

We flew premium on the way TO London but went back to economy for this flight. The differences I note here may be colored by changing service. The crew was professional and polite but cold on this flight and class of service. They seemed to want to have as little to do with us as possible, beyond providing the basic services in economy. The aircraft was still good though, and the pitch was about as tight as expected - manageable but no extra personal space to spare. Overall I would certainly fly Norse Atlantic again, given the opportunity.

Im if Ethiopian can allow customers to use their mileage for in flight connexion it will be great.

No Asian Vegetarian food was available on this sector but only fish and chicken and pasta were offered.

For Vegetarian Food was very poor. Though we had opted for Asian Vegetarian Food they didn’t serve but only what was available was served. We were offered Smoked Salmon!

My experience was great. The flight attendants were very helpful and nice, and the food was very good.

Very bad experience flight was over 5 hours delayed 😑 not a chance to be put on another flight we had to stay at the hotel we lost 2 days on our vacation. Never again I will fligh with Ethiopian airlines.

The ailine departed and arrived late foe every leg of the trip, causing myself and my travel companions to miss every connecting flight. It was very unorganized given theat there was a lot of miscommunication. The flights offered are unrealistic and when you call they assure you that the plane waits for you. I missed an. entire day of my vacation and any entire day of rest back home because of the airline. I do not plan to support the airline again. Thank you

Food was really not appealing. There was a blocked sink in the toilet. Toilet is cramped and the wall between the 2 toilets are not secured properly.

I felt all of the food tasted the same. And we had five meals over the 16 hrs in the air.

The use of a domestic carrier without entertainment was disappointing and a let down

Plane was late with no information or announcement … had to walk up n downstairs.., had not communicated this … and ppl had suitcase to carry .

All was very good however the breakfast was a bit tasteless on both flights. Many people seemed to say the same thing. Otherwise really good .

Is a terrible airline. The seats are tiny, staff are lazy and rude. Everything is a mission for them and they always take forever. Check in and passport control is enough to turn you off Mauritius all together. Let alone the airline. Mauritius is gorgeous and a must visit if you could avoid the airport and Air Mauritius.

Check in and passport and security time’s appalling Not enough staff for the volume of flights departing.

The crew were great as usual. The flight was rescheduled two hours later but delayed by more than an hours to load cargo. The was upsetting because I missed scheduled meetings in Johannesburg.

Though the food was very good ,I think the portions were too big. It was hard to manage everything on that small table. And you really don't feel like eating too much on a long flight. Just a suggestion and it would save you some money too.

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