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R3 916 Find cheap flights to Asia

This is the cheapest one-way flight price found by a KAYAK user in the last 72 hours by searching for a flight from South Africa to Asia departing on 10/10. 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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Mumbai
Mumbai1 stopR7 434
Bangkok
Bangkok1 stopR9 583
Phuket City
Phuket City2 stopsR9 964
Denpasar
Denpasar1 stopR13 534
New Delhi
New Delhi1 stopR10 328
Kuala Lumpur
Kuala Lumpur2 stopsR11 160
Tokyo
Tokyo1 stopR15 284
Hong Kong
Hong Kong1 stopR11 801
Guangzhou
Guangzhou1 stopR11 368
Singapore
Singapore1 stopR10 917
Ho Chi Minh City
Ho Chi Minh City1 stopR11 576
Hanoi
Hanoi1 stopR11 766
Manila
Manila2 stopsR11 246
Seoul
Incheon1 stopR13 499
Lahore
Lahore1 stopR11 905
Malé
Malé2 stopsR10 882
Kochi
Kochi1 stopR19 426
Shanghai
Shanghai1 stopR11 836

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August

High season

December

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R3 916
Best time to beat the crowds but there is an average 2% increase in price.
Most popular time to fly (18% more expensive on average)
Flight from Johannesburg to Mumbai

FAQs - booking Asia flights

  • How long is the flight to Asia?

    An average direct flight from South Africa to Asia takes 18h 52m, covering a distance of 15470 km. The most popular route is Johannesburg - Bangkok with an average flight time of 16h 50m.

  • What is the cheapest flight to Asia?

    The cheapest ticket to Asia from South Africa found in the last 72 hours was R6 496 one-way, and R7 139 round-trip. The most popular route is Johannesburg OR Tambo to Bangkok Suvarnabhumi and the cheapest round-trip airline ticket found on this route in the last 72 hours was R9 635.

  • Which airlines fly to Asia?

    ANA, Malaysia Airlines & Virgin Australia fly the most frequently from South Africa to Asia.

  • What are the most popular destinations in Asia?

    Based on KAYAK flight searches, the most popular destination is Bangkok (21% of total searches to Asia). The next most popular destinations are Phuket City (14%) and Mumbai (12%). Searches for flights to Denpasar (6%), to Shanghai (6%) and to Kuala Lumpur (5%) are also popular.

  • How does KAYAK’s flight Price Forecast tool help me choose the right time to buy?

    KAYAK’s flight Price Forecast tool uses historical data to determine whether the price for a given destination and date is likely to change within 7 days, so travellers know whether to wait or book now.

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Top 5 airlines flying to Asia

Need help choosing which airline to fly with from South Africa to Asia? 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 3578 reviews
8,1Comfort
8,3Entertainment
8,3Crew
7,9Food
8,2Boarding
Airline reviews

My favorite airline when traveling to the UAE. Great food and great service.

10,0 Excellentgrim, Sept 2024IAD - DXB
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My favorite airline when traveling to the UAE. Great food and great service.

Fresh energetic and friendly crew, great food, brand new plane and non stop entertainment

Seats are not as easy to move as you would hope in premium econo Y

Emirates is good airlines. But there plane seats were very small and congested. Need to little good and big seats in economy class.

On the DXB to IAD flight, missed the snack between the meals again...

Better entertainment; the lack of it made the very long flight even longer

No Vegetarian options onboard, made to wait for a long time for boarding

Very good ..nice comfort..crew service was good..and no delays in time ..they always on time..

We did not fly and our agent has been uncilling and uncooperative to help us rebook flight. We will never use Kayak ever again to book our flights, and we will let our network of friends know that using Kayak is equal to losing $$$$$.

Food was good, great communication by Pilot and Co Pilot, Crew very friendly. Slow beginning drink and meal service - over 2hrs into flight which disrupted overnight flight sleep. Entertainment systems was 3 Stars, my wife's was nonfunctional and had to call attendant 3 times to get it reset, mine the headphones and jack we're twitchy and keep going to muted volume.

The booking experience was bad. Our six character booking ID number disappeared the day before the flight, We could not find out what happened or what was the status of our flight, scheduled for the next day. We finally found the right number to contact Singapore Airlines on the matter (not easy). The Singapore agent worked through the issue in a little over thirty minutes on the phone, the day before the flight. That was great. I'm very happy with Singapore Airlines and their performance. Contact with a competent person on the matter was near impossible. It seems no one in business these days wants to deal with customers once they've pocketed the money. There were resellers, including Kayak, involved in the chain. When we finally got through to Underpricer, we did get a return call that could have proved helpful. But by that time the matter had been resolved by the Singapore agent. Majestic Vacations, the reseller who received the payment was less than worthless. That's just a fast buck operation. Ugh.

Could not really fault anything. We had a really short time between flights (about 45 mins), and had to get across the other side of the terminal. But we made it and crew were helpful. Food was good and service for the kids was great.

Didn't like much at all Nowhere near enough legroom, narrow seats. Aisles not wide enough for safe food trolley access and husband had his knee hit cos not enough leg room. Would take a lot to convince us to fly Singapore Airlines again which is a pity cos it was always our go-to airline

Once again the meal served was delicious - we got chicken rice

The experience was poor in comparison to the flight to Manado from Singapore via Scoot. Gate against could only check in stroller to Singapore (by clearing immigration) or to Brisbane. Who is able to carry their baby for 7 hour transit without having to enter Singapore?

Singapore Airlines from Mumbai was late, we were rerouted to Copenhagen and then to Los Angeles. As senior citizens, we should have been given a hotel voucher for a night and fly out the next day. I hope Singapore Airlines should give us a credit in good faith if they want us to fly with them. I doubt it, but you never know.

The flight was very late, sitting on the plane for over an hour and missed our connecting flight from Singapore to LA. As senior citizens, we were rerouted to Copenhagen and then to LA. They should not do this to senior citizens. They should have given us a hotel voucher for a night, then catch a flight to LA the next day. Singapore Airlines should grant us some kind of credit for the next trip, if they want us to fly with them. I doubt if we will ever hear from them.

I loved the comfort of the flight and the hospitality of the flight attendants!

They bumped us up. They overbooked the flight and we hurried to the next flight. We are a family of 5 with 13, 10 , and 6 year olds kids. Everybody was running to the next flight. We never been exhausted in our flights hust like we have experienced this week. Mismanagement in scoot and kayak.

I was traveling with my 3 minor children, one leg I was seated two aisles behind them. On the longest leg I would have preferred sitting across the aisle from them, not behind. My youngest is 4yos. I understand airplane seating configurations are not the airlines problem but seating the one adult with a reservation apart from the minors was very difficult.

Do I need to repeat my complaints about my lost carry on bag?

Being a platinum member, no attention given. No towel or tissue provided.

Between Air India and Qatar my luggage was lost for three days. I eventually found my own luggage location using the Apple Air Tag. Air India used a paper form to report my lost luggage. I could never get past getting past luggage personnel with my report number before they would hang up on me. Only after them specifically telling Air India at Chandigarh airport where my luggage was located which was right under their noses did they react. After three days I finally received my luggage. The Air India luggage folks didn’t seem proactive in finding the luggage’s rightful owner.

As gold member there is no priority checkin. Meaning you either have to board with your zone or last with business class pax. As economy pax all the baggage bays are filled by the time you arrive

Food was good, attendants were friendly. Seats were not comfortable. Did not receive any amenities such as eyemask or earplugs that would have helped sleep. Additionally a large group of passengers boarded very late into boarding and were a disruption for almost the whole flight. Flight attendants did their best but the kids were making so much noise, kicking seats, and half the time no adult was sat with them so they weren’t being managed.

I had first class service from them. A little late taking off, but no major problem

Operated by American Airlines. Very chaotic and the crew was bit rough responding any enquiries. Restricted leg space.. Qatar would have been better

I staff or crew they were very friendly and humbly, they done theirs service very well, I appreciate them and thank you to the company or Qatar 🇶🇦 Government for providing as good service in their flight ,once again, thank you 😊 🙏 😀 😉 👍

There’s lots of problem I faced from Bom to Doha that experience was worst I never faced before like this

The flight was good but my neighbor had the vent open full power for the whole flight and because the air was blowing from the side instead of from the top and I got very cold and ended up with a sore throat.

The seat was like there is no leg space....there were no proper option for food in the airline. It seemed like the airline was at brink of bankruptcy. The crew was helpful except for a few.

Needs better seat for business class. My seat was falling apart. Also no WiFi on that flight

Boarding catastrophic let alone have to claimb the plain rather than using jetway. 5.5 hr delay leaving had to do stop in Lgw for a new crew which further compounded the delay. Connecting flight would not wait and had to pend a night in a hotel. Curiously my seat would not go full flat.

Good. The food was very bad. Except for the chicken rice, rest of the dish went to trash.

I did not have a good experience in both flights of Etihad. First of all, when I was booking the flight, there were two options. The first option was a cheaper flight with longer layover (9 hrs), or a more expensive flight with shorter layover (2 hrs). I booked the expensive flight with shorter layover because I wanted a more comfortable trip. A few days before the trip, Etihad informed me that the departure time of my first flight will change 7 hours earlier, leading to an 9 hour layover, without giving me another option nor reimbursing me for the extra cost. They didn’t even send me an apologetic email for this change. Regarding the flight experience, I would rate it as mediocre. This is mostly because the pilots of both flights did their best to give us the worst approach to airports that I have ever experienced. In the case of the first flight they had to aboard the landing and took off again right before touching the landing strip. The captain said that it was due to wind conditions but the second time the pilot followed the same direction as the first time to land the plane.

Seat selection screen while online check-in could include free seats to choose from and show the options before we proceed. Currently, it is auto-allocated and there are no options for free seat selections.

Long way to improve. Toilets not working. Bad handling when flight was canceled

Online was good boarding also but a child was crying all the way with no intervention from crew member.

1st of all on February 27th Abu Dhabi to Delhi flight the seat wasn't comfortable at all, coming back the Lounge at Abu Dhabi didn't have anything. Than the Food in the flight

1st time with. Etihad Airways and it was amazing from check in to crew. Great flight.

I had a full row so can't imagine how this could be better

Boarding was delayed and people were just sitting there like lost.

Good was great, but no vegetarian option: only beef or chicken. In business class please add a vegetarian option. Thanks

The boarding area was too small with only one agent checking passengers into their standing bus

1. They messed up my baby food order. 2. They messed up my confirmed seats. 3. The screen on my seat was not working at all. So, it’s a horrible experience

The experience was amazing! Many thanks to the pilot who informed us that we were passing mt Kilimanjaro and we had the chance to see it !

Am Wowed I did not ever thought African has such an amazing airline before.

My suitcase 🧳 got missing we still looking for it This not good for them 👎🏾👎🏾👎🏾🤦🏽‍♀️

I took 4 Ethiopian Airlines flights on my trip. Each flight was one of the worst experiences I have had flying. The interior was filthy on each flight, the seats, the floors, the bathrooms. All were filthy. At 5-10, my knees touched the seat in front of me. The person in front of me declined their seat, basically making eye contact with me should they look up. My seat did not recline, so I was trapped in my seat, unable to use the bathroom or get up from my seat unless I woke up the person laying in my lap. My tv and seat were broken, as well as my friends seat and tv for our 14 hr flight. The bathroom closest to us was already clogged before we took off, so the backed up bathroom smells wafted out and into our row the entire 14 hr flight. Out of 4 flights, they were out of vegetarian food options for each meal. Flight staff was fairly rude and unapologetic, finally agreeing to give me a second roll and butter instead of no substitute offered for most of the meals. Flight crew had zero control over the passengers, allowing adults to congregate by exit doors and talk loudly during sleeping hours. Children were allowed to be completely ignored as they played outside of their seats and screeched for the ENTIRE 16 hr return flight. Forcing passengers to try and shush the children. Passengers then got up and got their bags the second the flight touched down, ignoring all safety and exit protocols. I will NEVER fly another Ethiopian Airlines flight as long as I live.

Lost our bags. They didn’t make it to Lilongwe

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Recent return flight deals

17/10Thu
1 stopEtihad Airways
13h 15mJNB-BOM
24/10Thu
1 stopEtihad Airways
13h 15mBOM-JNB
R7 434
11/10Fri
1 stopEtihad Airways
18h 20mJNB-BOM
22/10Tue
1 stopEtihad Airways
13h 00mBOM-JNB
R7 746
21/10Mon
1 stopQatar Airways
20h 35mJNB-BOM
27/10Sun
1 stopQatar Airways
15h 05mBOM-JNB
R9 427
24/11Sun
1 stopQatar Airways
21h 00mJNB-BOM
30/11Sat
1 stopQatar Airways
14h 55mBOM-JNB
R9 513
26/2Wed
2 stopsSingapore Airlines
16h 50mCPT-BKK
18/3Tue
2 stopsSingapore Airlines
17h 15mBKK-CPT
R10 778
4/2Tue
1 stopSingapore Airlines
19h 50mJNB-BKK
1/3Sat
1 stopSingapore Airlines
19h 30mBKK-JNB
R10 900
14/10Mon
1 stopEthiopian Air
17h 40mCPT-BKK
27/10Sun
1 stopEthiopian Air
17h 10mBKK-CPT
R11 004
7/11Thu
2 stopsEthiopian Air
20h 35mJNB-KUL
14/11Thu
2 stopsEthiopian Air
20h 05mKUL-JNB
R11 160
13/10Sun
1 stopEmirates
19h 50mJNB-HKT
22/10Tue
1 stopEmirates
25h 20mHKT-JNB
R12 355
19/11Tue
1 stopEmirates
18h 30mDUR-BKK
12/12Thu
1 stopEmirates
36h 40mBKK-DUR
R12 442

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10/10Thu
1 stopEtihad Airways
30h 00mJNB-BOM
R3 916
11/10Fri
1 stopEtihad Airways
18h 20mJNB-BOM
R4 107
19/2Wed
1 stopQatar Airways
29h 35mJNB-BKK
R5 615
1/3Sat
2 stopsSingapore Airlines
25h 20mCPT-BKK
R7 261
19/3Wed
2 stopsSingapore Airlines
25h 50mCPT-BKK
R7 486
19/2Wed
3 stopsQatar Airways
28h 50mJNB-BKK
R7 850
19/10Sat
1 stopEthiopian Air
18h 25mCPT-BKK
R9 444
30/11Sat
2 stopsEmirates
46h 15mJNB-HKG
R9 479
16/10Wed
1 stopEthiopian Air
24h 45mJNB-ICN
R9 756
20/10Sun
2 stopsEmirates
29h 25mJNB-BKK
R11 281

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6/10Sun
multi-stopEtihad Airways
30h 00mJNB-BOM
19/10Sat
multi-stopEtihad Airways
13h 35mBOM-JNB
R7 451
7/10Mon
multi-stopEtihad Airways
13h 15mJNB-BOM
19/10Sat
multi-stopEtihad Airways
13h 35mBOM-JNB
R7 746
6/10Sun
multi-stopQatar Airways
33h 35mJNB-BOM
5/11Tue
multi-stopQatar Airways
14h 05mBOM-JNB
R9 513
4/10Fri
multi-stopEmirates
16h 40mJNB-HKT
11/10Fri
multi-stopEmirates
25h 55mHKT-JNB
R13 568
6/10Sun
multi-stopQatar Airways
28h 50mJNB-BKK
15/10Tue
multi-stopQatar Airways
19h 30mBKK-JNB
R14 522
4/10Fri
multi-stopEmirates
33h 20mJNB-HKT
11/10Fri
multi-stopEmirates
25h 55mHKT-JNB
R14 677
6/10Sun
multi-stopEthiopian Air
42h 35mJNB-BOM
17/10Thu
multi-stopEthiopian Air
24h 15mBOM-JNB
R17 450
6/10Sun
multi-stopEthiopian Air
26h 30mJNB-HKG
13/10Sun
multi-stopEthiopian Air
18h 40mHKG-JNB
R18 992
6/10Sun
multi-stopSingapore Airlines
22h 40mCPT-BKK
16/10Wed
multi-stopSingapore Airlines
22h 45mBKK-CPT
R21 332
4/10Fri
multi-stopSingapore Airlines
18h 10mJNB-HKG
14/10Mon
multi-stopSingapore Airlines
17h 20mHKG-JNB
R73 924

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