R5 311 Find Cheap Flights to Brighton – Compare and Save

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Cheapest return fare
R11 194
Typical prices: R11 211-R14 514
Norse Atlantic UK
Sun 13/9Sat 3/10
CPT - LGW • Direct
Cheapest one-way flight
R5 311
Typical prices: R4 925-R6 807
Qatar Airways
Tue 13/10
JNB - LGW • 1 stop
Arrival airport
You can’t fly directly to Brighton. It is served by London (LON), located 76,2 km from Brighton.
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Cheap Flights to Brighton

 
Here are some of the best deals found on KAYAK recently from the most popular airlines for return flights to Brighton 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.
Discover the best prices for you by selecting your travel dates on KAYAK.

Recent return flight deals to Brighton

Sun, Sep 13 - Sat, Oct 3
Norse Atlantic UK Logo
0:10 - 10:55
CPT
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LGW
11h 45mdirect
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9:40 - 22:10
LGW
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CPT
11h 30mdirect
R11 194Norse Atlantic UK
Mon, Oct 19 - Tue, Oct 27
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0:10 - 10:55
CPT
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LGW
11h 45mdirect
Norse Atlantic UK Logo
7:30 - 21:00
LGW
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CPT
11h 30mdirect
R11 362Norse Atlantic UK
Thu, Sep 17 - Wed, Sep 23
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17:55 - 17:40
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LHR
24h 45m
1 stop
Lufthansa Logo
8:30 - 9:30
LHR
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CPT
24h 00m
1 stop
R11 598Lufthansa
Sun, Dec 13 - Thu, Jan 7
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17:45 - 6:20
JNB
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LHR
14h 35m
1 stop
RwandAir Logo
20:20 - 2:20
LHR
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JNB
28h 00m
1 stop
R12 119RwandAir
Tue, Oct 20 - Tue, Oct 27
Lufthansa Logo
15:20 - 7:40
CPT
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LHR
17h 20m
2 stops
Lufthansa Logo
18:30 - 13:25
LHR
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CPT
16h 55m
2 stops
R12 135Lufthansa
Sat, Jan 16 - Mon, Feb 8
RwandAir Logo
3:10 - 6:20
JNB
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LHR
29h 10m
1 stop
RwandAir Logo
20:30 - 13:25
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JNB
14h 55m
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R12 135RwandAir
Tue, Sep 8 - Tue, Sep 15
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13:15 - 18:45
CPT
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STN
30h 30m
1 stop
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14:55 - 11:30
STN
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CPT
19h 35m
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R12 841Emirates
Sun, Sep 13 - Sun, Sep 20
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13:15 - 12:55
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STN
24h 40m
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21:05 - 16:40
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18h 35m
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R12 875Emirates
Wed, Sep 16 - Sun, Sep 20
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12:05 - 6:30
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LHR
19h 25m
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R13 867Qatar Airways
Fri, Sep 11 - Mon, Sep 21
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12:05 - 6:25
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19h 20m
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19:25 - 17:40
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R13 900Qatar Airways
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Good to know – Book Cheap Brighton Plane Tickets

Low season

May

Cheapest flight

R5 311
Best time to beat the crowds but there is an average 10% increase in price.
Most popular time to fly and prices are also 17% lower on average.
Flight from Johannesburg to London Gatwick Airport

Flights to Brighton: the best tips from KAYAK users' own experiences

Insights shared by verified travellers who flew to Brighton 
Verified travelerFlew with British Airways
JNB
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LHR
Apr 2025
Allowing three hours for Heathrow transit is a good estimate.
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.

FAQs - booking Brighton flights

  • How long is the flight to Brighton?

    Flights from Johannesburg OR Tambo Airport15h 10m
  • How to fly to Brighton?

    You cannot fly directly to Brighton. KAYAK recommends you fly to London All airports (LON) (76,22 km from Brighton). From there you can hire a car or take a taxi.

  • What airports are near Brighton?

    The closest airport is London Gatwick (LGW) (37,29 km). Other nearby airports are London Heathrow (LHR) (75,53 km), London All airports (LON) (76,22 km), London City (LCY) (76,99 km) or Southampton Eastleigh (SOU) (86,63 km). KAYAK recommends you fly to London All airports.

  • How far is London City Airport from central London?

    Central London is 12 km away from London City Airport.

  • How does KAYAK find such low prices on flights to Brighton?

    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 to Brighton.

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

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

  • What is the Hacker Fare option on flights to Brighton?

    Hacker Fares allow you to combine one-way tickets in order to save you money over a traditional round-trip ticket. You could then fly to Brighton 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 to Brighton?

    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 to Brighton 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 Brighton

  • There is no major airport in Brighton,it is instead served by London's airports. We recommend you fly to London Heathrow Airport Airport, however you can also fly to London Gatwick Airport airport, London City Airport airport, London Luton Airport airport, London Stansted Airport airport or London Southend Airport airport.
  • Enter your preferred departure airport and travel dates into the search form above to unlock the latest Brighton flight deals.

Reviews of the top 5 airlines flying to Brighton

 
Need help choosing which airline to fly with from South Africa to Brighton? 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.
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EmiratesOverall score based on 3635 reviews
8,0Comfort
7,9Food
8,4Crew
8,1Boarding
8,2Entertainment
Airline reviews

Very bad service and food variety will never come back again

2,0 MediocreAmbrose, Apr 2026
DXB - LGW
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Very bad service and food variety will never come back again

My baby was with me it was really good experience with emirates

Fantastic as ever. Great staff super catering and excellent service.

Flight and entertainment great. Food needs to be improved, only one choice on the menu. Staff worked well throughout.

Crew were excellent and the bar service and chat fantastic. Cheese board delicious. Amenity kit good, very disappointing not getting pyjamas on this leg of the flight and needed to reuse from earlier flight.

Hospitality is good. Should improve on buggage handling because l lost a suitcase. Layover in Dubai was too long , 6 hours

They should resume the fast track for business / first class passengers

Everything was superb, only bad point was that the fast track on London Heathrow arrivals was not handed out to me and I had to go back to the gate to collect it.

All was good. Emirates should restart allowing fast track immigration for business class at Manchester airport. Saves a bit of time

Superb experience. I hope they bring back the fast track option at Heathrow immigration.

Check in at the desk was very slow pus Security, although not Virgin issue at JFK was a nightmare. 50 minuet wait no time to explore airport and get last minuet gifts. total wait 1.5hours

Food has been disappointing in both legs of flight to india

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

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

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.

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

The crew was excellent as ever on Virgin. The special meal was poor unfortunately. More significantly when we arrived at Manchester Airport there was no air bridge provided and we had to exit the plane down a rickety stair case. This is unacceptable for a transatlantic flight. Whilst I understand that this is the airport’s fault at the end of the day the airline is responsible for our transportation and needs to do something.

Super friendly and helpful staff, from check-in desk to cabin crew.

Following a paid seat upgrade for enhanced comfort, I encountered an unacceptable odor in my assigned area. It took three hours for the crew to relocate me, and the replacement seat was unacceptably close to the lavatory, offering no improvement.

From the start everything was perfectly fine. First meal was fantastic. Breakfast needs a lot of work and food was overcooked and not very nice for breakfast. Staff were fantastic friendly nice they came round and check we need anything else to eat or drink

The crew were fabulous. We travelled Doha to Miami and the crew in board we exceptional too.

Qatar was pretty OK for their services but Arangrant was awful at theirs and frankly lied to me. Qatar offers four business class fares and only three of them allow lounge access. This is a horrible policy when you pay so much for business class and shame on them for denying the simple use of their lounges for this confusion. When I requested my business class ticket with Arangrant I knew this and specifically told them I would only purchase the lowest class business seat that would still permit me lounge access on all legs of my trip. They lied to me and said I did and then I was refused this service on my return flights. I had no less than 4-8 schedule changes and got screwed by a late departure from DCA on my double connection to JNB. I lost nearly a full day on my outbound and then had little to no use of the lounges on my outbound flights. To then be denied access on my return flights made the 27 hour trip home pretty awful. Kayak should no longer work with Arangrant as they are dishonest and liars. Qatar should price all four of their business class fares to include lounge access and stop the insanity they have forced on people. My return trip home nearly ruined my entire trip to South Africa and I blame Arangrant for telling me lies and for Qatar for offering insane rules and regulations on such expensive business class fares. For the money I paid to Qatar, I did not receive the full services I was promised. I will probably never use Arangrant and their ignorant services ever again. I will question whether I ever fly on Qatar Airways again as well. When you pay so much and get such little in return, it leaves a bad taste in your mouth. Arangrant gives the whole industry a bad name and Qatar is not far behind them. I can honestly say that the wretched service and way I was treated by both have soured me on travel companies and airlines. It is bad enough that we have an idiot, felon, racist and bigoted president and administration to contend with while he has started an illegal war, I did not expect to get screwed over by Arangrant and Qatar as well. Shame on all of you.

The service was good but the food was a NO

The check-in and crew staff were wonderful. The food was reasonable. The online side Qatar was very poor. Seats were very tight and not very comfortable for a 14 hour flight!

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

Good staff, good intent, decent entertainment. More seat space would always be of benefit

After going through security and waiting for the flight at the gate, there was no access to bathrooms and no place to charge a phone while waiting for the flight. But once I was on the plane, everything was very good.

There was not enough staff during boarding which had created big problems . Another thing once you enter gate area there’s no way to use bathroom and you have to be in that area 2 hours before boarding which is too much.

At the Doha airport there were at least two security checks where all items have to be separately scanned ( this is after completing a full security screen from Cochin). The walk between terminals at Doha airport is tedious due to lack of in-airport transportation and staff to provide friendly directions. On flight, there was a good selection of entertainment movies. Interesting real time flight maps and camera feeds. Food, snacks and drinks could have been served more frequently. A few more items than the standard 3 meal items ( entree, fruit and yogurt) would have been good. A better staffing ratio and bathroom ratio would have made the trip more enjoyable.

The boarding was very unorganized, they had my dad “83 years old “ stand for long time to Wait in the line then stand behind the counter, we had two kids with us but the separated my dad from us for long time

Flights were delayed and due to a checked hand luggage bag by an overzealous gate agent in Berlin I missed my ground connection costing me another £80. Food was cold and bland, I honestly expect better from a national carrier operating out of one of their major hubs.

A bit more space? Not practical, I know. I felt squished in but part of that could have been the man sitting next to me.

It was my first experience in business class. It was everything I expected and more. Service was impeccable, food was delicious and I felt rested once I arrived to London

Missed our flight to London and we were put on coach seats to Munich.

Seats were terribly uncomfortable! Couldn’t sleep! I paid for good seats when scheduled with Lufthansa, got crappy mid-section seats on Air Canada!

No refreshments apart from a bottle of water. No pillows. No entertainment. Flight delayed by 52 minutes.

The seats are much too narrow and the arm rests are hard and awkwardly high, resulting in shoulder cramps. I am an average sized person ( definitely not overweight). The seats are a similar size to car seats with the added discomfort of incorporating hard plastic arm rests, that force average height individuals (I'm 5 ft 7 (f)) to hold their arms uncomfortably for several hours. The seats are much too close to the ones in front and behind making it extremely difficult to allow fellow passengers to get out, especially when the seat in front is declined. The leg room also necessitates knees banging into passengers backs for the entire flight. This used to be a quality airline who now offer mediocre service for premium cost, coupled with charging exorbitant prices for basic needs, like a seat, or luggage. Blatant and unabashed gouging of clients.

Another 35 min delay landing No apology no communication or acknowledgment about this

Try to humanize onboarding and take AI out. It's embarrassing and useless

Overall good experience. Polite crew. Good foodandentertainment. Seats are small and bit congested though.

They lost my luggage on my way to Namibia (I was unable to review that flight as I was in the bush/off line) It took 3 days to get my bag and I had to pay $375.00 to have it transported to my location as it was over 100 Kilometers from that Airport and the local Airlink carrier would not got that far.

Great flight, last one out the air-conditioning was far to hot and the return it was to cold and then issued blankets. On the outward bowned the headset connector didn't work properly. You had intermittent sound from the audio socket.

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

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

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.

It was just ok. Half the bathrooms were broke on the flight.

If they wouldn't have canceled the flight WITHOUT informing me until I looked at my ticket and saw I had 2 extra layovers in 2 different cities than the ones I paid for? That would have been nice.

Poor BA get a lot of stick and have some problems getting your bags to the same destination BUT the whole experience is very much 5 star and probably due to excellent, helpful and sooo British staff. We travelled in economy plus.

The flight was uncomfortably warm. We asked a member of the crew to adjust the temperature, and they said they would but it didn't make a noticeable difference. They really cram you into the plane, too, in economy. It was quite uncomfortable for an 11 hour flight.

The 7 hour delay in Johannesburg was extremely tiresome, with poor communication at check-in and a sad R120 voucher as compensation. All in all sitting for 10 hours on an airport was pretty bad. At arrival the baggage arrival took 2 hours. All in all, a very, very long trip.

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