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Recent return flight deals to Leicester

Wed, Oct 21 - Tue, Jan 12
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0:10 - 0:55CPT  Cape Town Intl-MAN Manchester
25h 45m2 stops London Gatwick Barcelona-El Prat
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6:00 - 17:25MAN  Manchester-CPT Cape Town Intl
33h 25m2 stops Dublin Doha Hamad Intl
R12 895Multiple Airlines
Wed, Oct 21 - Tue, Jan 12
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0:10 - 8:05CPT  Cape Town Intl-MAN Manchester
32h 55m2 stops London Gatwick Milan Malpensa
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6:00 - 14:35MAN  Manchester-CPT Cape Town Intl
30h 35m3 stops Dublin Frankfurt am Main Johannesburg OR Tambo
R13 106Multiple Airlines
Mon, Oct 26 - Thu, Oct 29
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9:50 - 12:15JNB  Johannesburg OR Tambo-MAN Manchester
28h 25m1 stop Abu Dhabi Zayed Intl
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8:15 - 8:20MAN  Manchester-JNB Johannesburg OR Tambo
22h 05m1 stop Abu Dhabi Zayed Intl
R13 236Etihad Airways
Wed, Sep 16 - Wed, Sep 23
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9:45 - 6:55JNB  Johannesburg OR Tambo-MAN Manchester
22h 10m1 stop Abu Dhabi Zayed Intl
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9:20 - 8:20MAN  Manchester-JNB Johannesburg OR Tambo
22h 00m1 stop Abu Dhabi Zayed Intl
R13 252Etihad Airways
Mon, Sep 14 - Mon, Oct 19
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13:30 - 21:50JNB  Johannesburg OR Tambo-MAN Manchester
33h 20m2 stops Nairobi Jomo Kenyatta Intl Istanbul
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22:55 - 9:40MAN  Manchester-JNB Johannesburg OR Tambo
33h 45m2 stops Istanbul Nairobi Jomo Kenyatta Intl
R13 285Turkish Airlines
Sun, Sep 27 - Sun, Oct 11
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13:30 - 21:50JNB  Johannesburg OR Tambo-MAN Manchester
33h 20m2 stops Nairobi Jomo Kenyatta Intl Istanbul
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22:55 - 9:40MAN  Manchester-JNB Johannesburg OR Tambo
33h 45m2 stops Istanbul Nairobi Jomo Kenyatta Intl
R13 285Turkish Airlines
Thu, Oct 1 - Thu, Oct 8
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19:25 - 13:20CPT  Cape Town Intl-MAN Manchester
18h 55m1 stop Zurich
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18:40 - 20:55MAN  Manchester-CPT Cape Town Intl
25h 15m1 stop Zurich
R13 350SWISS
Fri, Sep 11 - Sat, Sep 26
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19:30 - 6:20CPT  Cape Town Intl-MAN Manchester
35h 50m1 stop Doha Hamad Intl
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21:45 - 17:30MAN  Manchester-CPT Cape Town Intl
18h 45m1 stop Doha Hamad Intl
R13 480Qatar Airways
Sun, Sep 27 - Sun, Oct 11
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14:05 - 6:20JNB  Johannesburg OR Tambo-MAN Manchester
17h 15m1 stop Doha Hamad Intl
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21:45 - 9:10MAN  Manchester-JNB Johannesburg OR Tambo
34h 25m1 stop Doha Hamad Intl
R14 113Qatar Airways
Thu, Oct 1 - Thu, Oct 8
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12:20 - 8:15CPT  Cape Town Intl-MAN Manchester
20h 55m2 stops Johannesburg OR Tambo Zurich
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18:40 - 20:55MAN  Manchester-CPT Cape Town Intl
25h 15m1 stop Zurich
R14 893SWISS
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FAQs - booking Leicester flights

  • How long is the flight to Leicester?

    Flights from Johannesburg OR Tambo Airport22h 10m
    Flights from Port Elizabeth18h 30m
    Flights from Cape Town18h 55m
  • What is the cheapest flight to Manchester?

    In the last 5 days, the cheapest flight deal to Manchester was found on the route from Johannesburg, at R12 895 return. The most popular connection is from Cape Town to Manchester, while KAYAK users have found return deals for as low as R12 895 in the last 5 days.

  • How to fly to Leicester?

    You cannot fly directly to Leicester. KAYAK recommends you fly to Manchester (MAN) (109,81 km from Leicester). From there you can hire a car or take a taxi.

  • What airports are near Leicester?

    The closest airport is Birmingham (BHX) (45,65 km). Another nearby airport is London Luton (LTN) (99,87 km) KAYAK recommends you fly to Manchester.

  • How far is Manchester Airport from central Manchester?

    Central Manchester is 14 km away from Manchester Airport.

  • What is the name of Manchester’s airport?

    All flights to Manchester land at Manchester Airport. The airport code is MAN,and it can also be referred to as Manchester or Manchester Intl.

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

    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 Leicester.

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

    KAYAK’s flight Price Forecast tool uses historical data to determine whether the price for a flight to Leicester 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 Leicester?

    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 Leicester 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 Leicester?

    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 Leicester 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 Leicester

  • There is no major airport in Leicester. It is instead served by Manchester Airport.
  • Enter your preferred departure airport and travel dates into the search form above to unlock the latest Leicester flight deals.

Reviews of the top 5 airlines flying to Leicester

 
Need help choosing which airline to fly with from South Africa to Leicester? 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 3657 reviews
7,9Food
8,2Boarding
8,2Entertainment
8,4Crew
8,0Comfort
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Very bad service and food variety will never come back again

2,0 MediocreAmbrose, Apr 2026
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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.

Swiss messed up a Geneva-Zurich flight on a day with perfect weather. Then they didn’t even let people with almost no time to catch connections disembark first. Finally, luggage missed the connection of course and it took almost 24 hours for it to be delivered. We lost a whole day of vacation stuck in the hotel waiting for it.

The premium economy seat was the wurst one I have ever experienced

Business class seating in Swiss really is just Economy seating minus the middle passenger

At boarding, the locations where we had to have our passports checked prior to boarding were very unclear. Occasional staff wandered around telling people, but in busy area of the terminal this was not obvious. It was also located well after the check in desk in terms of walking to the gate. The Premium Economy service was attentive and warm. The only big draw back was lack of restrooms, and no division or even curtain between PE and Economy.

Very nice crew and great food. Easy to board just wish the flight could be shorter or seats more comfortable or more room to walk around when you get cramps in your legs from sitting so long. Crew was great and attentive and really was good food.

Everything was fairly easy just hard when you get to Heathrow not know your Gate number until an hour before but otherwise really everything great. Did not get my texts in time though to do me any good but that is why I still like everything the old fashioned way and print everything out.

For the price of the ticket it's probably the best service in the world

I have no complaints. The crew was attentive, pleasant and heloful

I thought the flight crew was very attentive and the food was excellent. The only issues I had were the flight delays. A small one out of Sarajevo and a longer one out of Zurich.

Missed connecting train since flight was late into Zurich and I had to stay at airport hotel because of it as well as I had to repurchase train ticket

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

Good could be better. Crew is good but not great. Not much snack options for kids. Bathrooms were not cleaned on time

Maybe some more information as to why the flight got delayed I understand may be tell your customers that missiles were fired at a specific airport wouldn't be reassuring to the customers and would cause mayhem but something like recent events have cause a delay on your flight or smth

The seats seemed smaller than other business class offerings. The entertainment menu was limited. Flight crew was good.

No entertainment except on app. No outlets working to charge. Good service

Very disappointing #1 - You have to pay extra to use the business lounge, or else you sit in the cold airport for 7 hours and fall sick #2 - Did an awful job with boarding, they turned on the "last call" notice on the monitor made the passengers come running to the gate, once the passengers came close the crew would tell them - hey we are not boarding yet, this included passengers with children also, this was happening all the time, it was pitiful to see #3 - Did not have the courtesy for the passengers in the business class, there is a reasons why people choose business class, because they need to get to work, that means sleep is very important for them, in the business class, the crew members would themselves cause so much noise by closing the door in a loud way, once the crew member does it then the other passengers are also doing it, #4 - the food did not smell good, #5 - The Abu Dhabi airport is small, so not a whole lot to do, especially when the layover is 7+ hours. #6 - Did not provide the slippers with pajamas, #7 - also the pajamas also I had to ask, only after asking it was provided. #8- Asked for an extra pillow because the pillow they provided was not tall enough, the crew member said there was no additional pillow and gave me something like a blanket, I tried my best to use that as a pillow, but my head kept on sliding and that messed up my sleep and did not get deep thorough sleep Overall the airlines did not have an understanding of how to care for the passengers, especially the business class ones. Overall it was a bad experience, I would much rather spend the money with Qatar airways, the experience with Qatar is so much better.

I missed my flight ,staff unhelpful, they sat and watched me wait ,gangway door closed, English was a problem no announcement I was on time now I missed my month vacation ,lost 1400 bucks no refund I'm sick to my stomach

More leg space than other flights, but felt like *maybe* narrower seats?

Old plane, old entertainment system. It wasn't working throughout the entire flight. I was offered to connect to their system via Wifi to watch on my phone. Crew wasn't very helpful except one lady who turned the experience around.

Very very bad service very tight seats never ever flying with Etihad again

The food is good, but i am nit used to those foods so I can’t really be more detailed.

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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