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Cheap Flights to Gatwick

 
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Recent return flight deals to Gatwick

Tue, Nov 25 - Tue, Dec 2
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23:00 - 5:40JNB-LGW
32h 40m1 stop
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10:00 - 3:55LGW-JNB
15h 55m1 stop
R11 118Ethiopian Air
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Tue, Nov 4 - Tue, Nov 11
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23:00 - 5:40JNB-LGW
32h 40m1 stop
Ethiopian Air Logo
10:00 - 3:55LGW-JNB
15h 55m1 stop
R11 204Ethiopian Air
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Thu, Nov 6 - Thu, Nov 20
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19:10 - 9:20JNB-LGW
16h 10m1 stop
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10:20 - 10:50LGW-JNB
22h 30m1 stop
R11 634Turkish Airlines
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Fri, Nov 14 - Fri, Nov 28
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9:00 - 17:50CPT-LGW
34h 50m1 stop
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18:40 - 7:30LGW-CPT
34h 50m1 stop
R11 806SWISS
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Thu, Nov 6 - Fri, Nov 21
SWISS Logo
20:15 - 17:50JNB-LGW
23h 35m1 stop
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18:40 - 10:30LGW-JNB
13h 50m1 stop
R11 875SWISS
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Thu, Nov 6 - Tue, Nov 25
Turkish Airlines Logo
19:10 - 9:20JNB-LGW
16h 10m1 stop
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17:05 - 10:50LGW-JNB
15h 45m1 stop
R12 012Turkish Airlines
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Thu, Nov 6 - Fri, Nov 21
Qatar Airways Logo
20:20 - 12:35JNB-LGW
18h 15m1 stop
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9:00 - 8:40LGW-JNB
21h 40m1 stop
R12 201Qatar Airways
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Thu, Nov 6 - Thu, Nov 13
Qatar Airways Logo
13:45 - 5:55JNB-LGW
18h 10m1 stop
Qatar Airways Logo
8:40 - 3:55LGW-JNB
17h 15m1 stop
R12 287Qatar Airways
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Thu, Oct 23 - Wed, Oct 29
Emirates Logo
13:25 - 12:35JNB-LGW
24h 10m1 stop
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9:40 - 5:35LGW-JNB
17h 55m1 stop
R12 837Emirates
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Sat, Nov 22 - Sat, Nov 29
Emirates Logo
18:50 - 11:40JNB-LGW
18h 50m1 stop
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20:25 - 20:35LGW-JNB
22h 10m1 stop
R12 906Emirates
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Everything you should know

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March
Cheapest • 10% price drop
December
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Cheapest return fare
R11 118
Overall average: R12 785
Ethiopian Air
Tue 25/11Tue 2/12
JNB - LGW • 1 stop
Cheapest direct flights
R11 239
Typical prices: R9 177-14280
Multiple Airlines
Tue 18/11Tue 25/11
CPT - LGW • Direct
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KAYAK's insights & trends for flights to Gatwick

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

What is the cheapest month to fly to London Gatwick Airport?

To calculate monthly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each month over the last year for flights to London Gatwick Airport, 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 to London Gatwick Airport is February, where tickets cost R10 964 on average for one-way flights. On the other hand, the most expensive months are August and September, where the average cost of tickets from South Africa is R15 483 and R15 002 respectively. For return trips, the best month to travel is March with an average price of R11 909.

What is a good deal for flights to London Gatwick Airport?

If you’re looking for cheap airfare to London Gatwick Airport, 25% of our users found tickets to London Gatwick Airport for the following prices or less: From Cape Town R3 801 one-way - R10 989 return.

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

To calculate weekly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each week before departure over the last year for round-trip flights to London Gatwick Airport, 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, you should book around 0 weeks before departure. For the absolute cheapest price, our data suggests you should book 73 days before departure.

Good to know – Book Cheap London Gatwick Airport Plane Tickets

Low seasonJanuary
Cheapest flightR4 296
Best time to beat the crowds (5% less expensive on average)
Most popular time to fly (9% more expensive on average)
Flight from Cape Town to London Gatwick Airport

When to book flights to Gatwick

Are your dates flexible? Find out the best times to travel to Gatwick based on our flight data from the last year. Discover the cheapest month and even day to fly.
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KAYAK looks at all historical flight data for each date to provide a predicted price for one-way trips or returns with a duration up to 40 days. The information is for flights to London based on your location. While we try to provide actual minimum prices for each date, some prices are predictions and actual prices may differ.

FAQs - booking London Gatwick Airport flights

  • How far is London Gatwick Airport from central London?

    The distance between London Gatwick Airport and the city centre of London is 38 km.

  • How much is a flight to London?

    On average, a flight to London costs R8 631. The cheapest price found on KAYAK in the last 2 weeks cost R3 518 and departed from Cape Town Intl Airport.

  • What is the cheapest day to fly to London?

    Based on KAYAK data, the cheapest day to fly to London is Tuesday where tickets can be as cheap as R12 531. On the other hand, the most expensive day to fly is Saturday, where prices are R13 375 on average.

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

    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 London Gatwick Airport.

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

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

    Hacker Fares allow you to combine one-way tickets in order to save you money over a traditional return ticket. You could then fly to London Gatwick Airport 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 London Gatwick Airport?

    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 London Gatwick Airport 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 London Gatwick Airport?

    The cheapest time of day to fly to London Gatwick Airport is generally in the morning, when flights cost R11 783 on average. The most expensive time of day to fly to London Gatwick Airport is generally in the evening, which is peak travel time and where the average cost of a ticket is R12 857.

Top tips for finding cheap flights to London Gatwick Airport

  • Looking for cheap airfare to London Gatwick Airport? 25% of our users found return tickets to London Gatwick Airport for the following prices or less: From Cape Town R7 395
  • Enter your preferred departure airport and travel dates into the search form above to unlock the latest London Gatwick Airport flight deals.

Prefer to fly direct to London Gatwick?

 
Nonstop data is based off flight results for the next 60 days. Find direct flights from all airlines flying nonstop to London Gatwick.
Find which airlines fly direct to London Gatwick Airport, which days they fly and book direct flights.

Direct departures

South Africa to London Gatwick

Monday

AccesRail, Aer Lingus, Aerolineas Argentinas, +53 more

AccesRail, Aer Lingus, +54 more

Tuesday

AccesRail, Aegean Airlines, Aer Lingus, +52 more

AccesRail, Aegean Airlines, +53 more

Wednesday

AccesRail, Aegean Airlines, Aer Lingus, +54 more

AccesRail, Aegean Airlines, +55 more

Thursday

AccesRail, Aegean Airlines, Aer Lingus, +56 more

AccesRail, Aegean Airlines, +57 more

Friday

AccesRail, Aegean Airlines, Aer Lingus, +55 more

AccesRail, Aegean Airlines, +56 more

Saturday

AccesRail, Aer Lingus, Aerolineas Argentinas, +53 more

AccesRail, Aer Lingus, +54 more

Sunday

AccesRail, Aer Lingus, Aerolineas Argentinas, +60 more

AccesRail, Aer Lingus, +61 more

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Direct returns

London Gatwick to South Africa

Monday

AccesRail, Aer Lingus, Aerolineas Argentinas, +53 more

AccesRail, Aer Lingus, +54 more

Tuesday

AccesRail, Aegean Airlines, Aer Lingus, +52 more

AccesRail, Aegean Airlines, +53 more

Wednesday

AccesRail, Aegean Airlines, Aer Lingus, +54 more

AccesRail, Aegean Airlines, +55 more

Thursday

AccesRail, Aegean Airlines, Aer Lingus, +56 more

AccesRail, Aegean Airlines, +57 more

Friday

AccesRail, Aegean Airlines, Aer Lingus, +55 more

AccesRail, Aegean Airlines, +56 more

Saturday

AccesRail, Aer Lingus, Aerolineas Argentinas, +53 more

AccesRail, Aer Lingus, +54 more

Sunday

AccesRail, Aer Lingus, Aerolineas Argentinas, +60 more

AccesRail, Aer Lingus, +61 more

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Reviews of the top 5 airlines flying to Gatwick

 
See real verified KAYAK customer reviews for airlines flying to London. Airline scores are aggregated from all reviews left by passengers on KAYAK after flying with an airline from South Africa to London. KAYAK doesn’t show reviews that are older than 5 years. Learn how KAYAK collects reviews.
Need help choosing which airline to fly with to Gatwick? 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 3367 reviews
8,1Boarding
8,3Crew
8,2Entertainment
7,9Food
8,0Comfort
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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.

8,0 ExcellentAnonymous, Oct 2025DXB - MAN
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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.

Crew were very good. Food service was a little slow and disappointing not having on demand dining and only 3 options. Amenity kits and pyjamas were excellent.

This was my first time flying with Emirates. Overall, the experience was very good. I thought the seats in economy would have been a bit more comfortable, but, they seem to be on par with other airlines. The food was excellent and very satisfying. If you can afford it, I would definitely suggest upgrading to at lest premium economy seats for long haul flights.

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

I lost my lock from my luggage, I don’t know someone took something from my bag.

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

First time and very memorable, the finest flying experience ive ever had

Everything I was good except food quality is very poor

Ove the A380 planes. Comfortable seats. Served great Indian food and Masala Chai!

Very uncomfortable aircraft. No free entertainment or drinks. Food okay. Won't fly with them again.

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.

They lived up to the Swiss reputation of excellent operation in all aspects. Zurich is a great place to make connections to other parts of Europe.

My experience was wonderful. The professionalism of the crew was exemplary 🙂. The meals were wholesome and tasty. I have no complaints

Even though I paid extra for more room, we were very cramped and the seats were hard. Also, when we checked in they did not post the gate we were to arrive at even though we were half an hour away from boarding. The agent did not know either. Actually, the flight from Porto to Zurich did to have the gate posted, and there were very few agents in the boarding areas who could help us. I would never fly Swiss Air again.

Horrible flight. First delay in boarding of approximately 30 minutes. While in the plane, the flight attendants huddle and we get an announcement that the crew's legal time was exceeded, that they don't have replacement crew and that they will need to cancel the flight. One would think that they would know that their time was to be exceeded BEFORE boarding. Took for ever to deplane. Then we were told that flight would not be cancelled but gave us a departure time of 21.15, which of course was not fulfilled. Arrived in Valencia, luggage took 30 minutes to arrive. Absolutely unacceptable

Well it was a 2h delay flight so that said it all. With very little if any information. Boarding took for ever with long waits at the terminal and then in the finger. To top it off and increase the delay we had to take a bus in Zurich. A trip to forget

Delay more than hour created pressure to catch the connecting flight

The seats were so close together, when the man in front of me put his seat back, the screen in front of me was 9 inches from my face. There is no way to lean forward if I needed to pick something up. It was pretty uncomfortable for a ten hour flight. I was very surprised.

The food was good. Most the staff was pleasant. The flight would be drastically improved with WiFi on a long international flight.

Each flight we took was late with little or no updates or information.

Overall the experience was neat with crew being nice and caring especially to parent with kids. The free snacks option was okay. The kiosk at Philly airport didn’t work.

First keep the airline as you promise. Reason for travelling from Orlando to Tampa is to go with Qatar Airline. We end up with American Airline. As expected the service was horrible.

It was excellent in all respects. I don’t think it needs any improvement

Indigo airlines is terrible. Staff is awful and so disorganized. They are so rude and unhelpful. I will never travel on Indigo airlines again!!!!!

The flight was smooth Thank God but the delays and changing gates for 3-4 times made me so tired of walking back and forth with heavy bags I thought I was going to pass out with heavy headaches but Thank God finally found the final gate and home safe. These delays happen anytime for important reasons so just be patient when you come across these situations.

Liked some flight attendants. 1 was rude I'll not say her name I don't want to get her jn trouble on my flight back to Dallas from Doha. Very rude to some races of people clearly. She needs a better attitude and bedside manners. Asking her questions and she responds "WHAT" twice rudely like I was bothering her and "is it going to be cranberry or mango juice with an attitude".

Qatar Airways did a very good job. Flights were slightly delayed with boarding but pilots made up time by arrival. The food was OK, no better or worse than other airlines. Although it would be nice to have three meals during 16 hours flight instead of two.

I was denied lounge facility at airport. Explanation was not satisfactory.

The Qatar Airways staff pre-boarding and also on the flight from Dallas to Doha were incredibly mediocre and arrogant. Consider retraining these individuals Other flights were ok.

No difference between US airline and Qatar. Both cramp as many people. The airline seems to change planes without notice choice is seating when making reservations online doesn’t match the plane a passenger is on. Especially paying extra. Nothing special No different than US carriers.

Paying extra for premium seats was wasted. Turkish Airlines takes 2 seats for bassinet. The lady next to me had a baby with bassinet Bassinet was in front of my seat

It was ok. Not the experience I expected from Turkish airlines

The crew were very hospitable and pleasant. The food was pretty good. Unfortunately, there was a flight delay of more than 2 hours. We're not sure why but it appeared to be outside the control of Turkish Airlines.

I hate to have pay for my first luggage 165$ when I did my search on Kayak with 2 luggages .I don't plan to use kayak in the future and go with Turkish airlines directly

It was great except my luggage was C severely damaged over i picked it up off the carousel in London. . A suit case that had been used once does no longer have the use of the extendable arm as it’s broken

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

Aircraft you use on this route are always old and poor! This drives the entire experience down

The Etickets had been changed (Why?) without notice ; Hence, that caused troubles when checking in. Not until I contacted my ticket agent and was given correct Etickets could I then check in.

One of the best flights I have been on in a while.

A fairly standard 2/2 configuration. Boeing 787-9 is modern but the amenities chosen by Turkish for their seats are slightly limited - no in-seat charging, for example. Otherwise, a good flight.

The Boeing 737 MAX on this route, flown in the middle of the night, is an UTTER FAILURE for business travellers. The whole point of business travel is to arrive alert and recover from travel quickly, and this little aeroplane with its quarter recline uncomfortable business seats does nothing for that. It’s a small step up from economy in that you have decent legroom, but that’s it. Absolute margin at the cost of the traveller.

The food was terrible and the seating was uncomfortable, but the airline did a great thing letting us board in Abbis Ababa on our connecting flight after our original flight was very delayed.

Delays delays making us miss or next connection to IAD hence having to stay additional 24 hrs in Addis Ababa

It was an old aircraft, stiff seats almost wooden chairs with thin cushions. Food was ok.

The flight is packed and it feels like the space per individual has gotten smaller. Excruciating for a 14hr flight.

Were not told that carryon laggage has to be only 12 kgs but my bag was heavier asked to pay an additional $550.00. I could have upgraded to a bussiness class for that price and no one at the gate to upgrade but able to take money for the extra weight. I felt like this was a setup scam.

Forgotten Suite inside of the top compartment but went back to ask and they didn’t leave at the lost and found place. Also the checking in was so horrible. I had multi city and one of the passenger saint have visa go go go Dubai. The Ethiopian airlines never had information about requirement for US permanent resident so couldn’t go to Dubai. And when coming back to US we were told we can not use our Addis to Washington ticket and they forced us to get new ticket. Very horrible experience.

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.

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