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Malé1 stopR10 745

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Flight from Johannesburg to Malé

FAQs - booking Maldives flights

  • How long is the flight to the Maldives?

    An average direct flight from South Africa to the Maldives takes 24h 22m, covering a distance of 10510 km. The most popular route is Johannesburg - Malé with an average flight time of 20h 00m.

  • What is the cheapest flight to the Maldives?

    The cheapest ticket to the Maldives from South Africa found in the last 72 hours was R10 745. The most popular route is Johannesburg OR Tambo to Male and the cheapest round-trip airline ticket found on this route in the last 72 hours was R10 745.

  • What is the most popular destination in the Maldives?

    Based on KAYAK flight searches, the most popular destination is Malé (100% of total searches to the Maldives).

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Top 4 airlines flying to the Maldives

Need help choosing which airline to fly with from South Africa to the Maldives? 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 3548 reviews
8,0Comfort
8,3Crew
7,9Food
8,1Boarding
8,2Entertainment
Airline reviews

Airline did not have enough vegetarian meals for all guests, and crew were not adequately trained to handle this.

4,0 OkayAnonymous, Oct 2024LAX - DXB
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Airline did not have enough vegetarian meals for all guests, and crew were not adequately trained to handle this.

Nothing, all that I know is that I will never travel with Emirates again Qatar is were I belong. You guys should send someone over to experience what true acomadation is, Emirates has the worst food that I ever eat on any airline ,even jetblue has better food and snacks that curry Indian garbage you guys serve just make people sick.

We boarded via a mobile gate in Dubai. I don't care for the bus ride from the gate to the plane

The lounge staff at reception were inefficient and robotic. Boarding process was chaotic at the gate with no priority for business and first. At arrival into Dubai, no upper deck door . Food option and quality for this flight was awful . Thankfully the bar is always good.

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

When you buy Emirates you don’t expect low cost. Choice of coffee/tea vs water. Entertainment on demand. Seat distance won’t allow food tray to extend without hitting belly (and I didn’t grow lately)

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

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 $$$$$.

The food was pretty good and the crew were excellent. It would have been excellent all round but for screaming children. Six hours at least of a 10 hr flight. Mostly 1 child clearly on the spectrum and probably ADHD but I really felt for the parents and grandparents who were obviously struggling and doing the best they could under the circumstances. No reflection on the airline of course and we all need to be more tolerant with these challenges . Slept for 15 hrs when I got home.

Boarding in the bus was slow and extremely hot. The flight attendant in the area of row 21 was extremely rude and had the attitude of not wanting to be at work for the day. Emirates you can do better than this

The crew and their service was top notch, but the plane itself seemed to be on the older side and worn out. Also, the food could’ve been better. 9 out of 10.

The staff were amazing and very kind. The seats recline a little too far back and are up close when sitting behind.

We flew business class. It was excellent. For a 6’4” individual, the seats were slightly uncomfortable for sleeping. But this is only comparison to other business class seats. Otherwise, the crew was incredibly attentive, And the service was impeccable.

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.

My daughter and I had a pleasant trip to Singapore. Reliable and on time.

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

A 16 hour flight from Singapore to Los Angeles had only 2 meals. Please make it 3 meals.

Good airlines, travelled 🧳 n Singapore multiple times and experience is consistent

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

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

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

Don't be afraid if you board an Oman Air Airbus A330 - it will take you to Colombo and not Muskat. The Aircraft is leased by Qatar Airways ;-)

It was good no problems made it on time for the next flight overseas!

They made us deliberate waste time by holding our passports and boarding passes making us miss the flight

It was a long flight but overall a good one. The one thing that I would comment on is that there is a real problem with disposable plastic products when it comes to the meal service. It would be great for Qatar Airways to find ways to make its meal service more circular and reduce the immense amount of waste.

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

My seat that I booked over a year ago and some other passenger was sitting in it. They said they could not walk and they would not move. I was with my young kid and the crew did nothing to accommodate that. Just disappointed that the airline accepts that excuse from a passenger.

The staff at the check in lied. I requested aisle seats he said he gave me aisle seats. In actuality he only gave me aisle seat for 2 hour Karachi to Doha flight. From Doha to Dallas flight he gave me middle seat .

They have misplaced my one checked bag which I have not received in Philadelphia and have lodged complaint with American Airlines, the staff of Indigo was rude with us, at the checking counter, I think she purposely withheld my one of the checked bag, because the American Airlines staff told me that bag was not received at Doha airport. Kindly help me with one of my checked bag to get it. My flight was from Mumbai to Doha and then Doha to Philadelphia.

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.

Only 1 time food and drinks together was offered, for total 5 hours duration drinks and snacks was never offered. For some people food choice was not available, only veg was available. No entertainment option was there. Crew members were mostly back of the flight asking each other for KitKat and chips to share between them.

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

Lovely crew - comfortable journey despite it being an older plane.

The business class experience is fantastic. The crew were polite but often unavailable even when I tried to call them! I even found myself bringing my used dishes and cutlery up to the crew because no one had come to collect it after over an hour.

Overall mediocre experience. Check in was good. They're were discriminatory. They were not attentive, food choices were not vegetarian friendly. The food served was frozen.

Good range of movies but lacking decent tv shows. Wifi was really expensive on this flight, considering flights under 7 hours have a $9.99 USD charge for streaming, to jump up to $24.99 for a 7 hour 40 flight seemed a little bit of a rip off. Staff are inattentive, and really need to improve on the customer experience. The new airport is fantastic, as is the new lounge, a huge upgrade from the old airport and lounge!

It has been a couple of years since I flew with Etihad last, after having a unpleasant experience with them coming out of the pandemic. I can say that the experience has uplifted, but I can’t really rate the service. At Barcelona airport the service was great, with their dedicated Etihad staff very helpful. The onboard experience wasn’t great, not very personalised and it really makes sense why Etihad doesn’t feature in the top 10 2023 Skytrax awards. The crew just seemed to be inattentive and almost absent from the cabin. I felt that I had to keep getting their attention. Even after I’d finished my meal, an hour went by before I had to call them to clear the tray/plate etc.

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4/11Mon
1 stopQatar Airways
22h 50mJNB-MLE
12/11Tue
1 stopQatar Airways
21h 15mMLE-JNB
R10 745
26/1Sun
1 stopQatar Airways
23h 05mJNB-MLE
2/2Sun
1 stopQatar Airways
27h 05mMLE-JNB
R10 920
20/11Wed
2 stopsEmirates
28h 45mCPT-MLE
25/11Mon
2 stopsEmirates
27h 20mMLE-CPT
R11 658
20/11Wed
2 stopsEmirates
28h 45mCPT-MLE
25/11Mon
2 stopsEmirates
27h 20mMLE-CPT
R11 675
4/11Mon
2 stopsEtihad Airways
25h 30mJNB-MLE
12/11Tue
2 stopsEtihad Airways
20h 00mMLE-JNB
R11 675
4/11Mon
2 stopsEtihad Airways
25h 30mJNB-MLE
12/11Tue
1 stopEtihad Airways
26h 35mMLE-JNB
R11 851
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21h 00mJNB-MLE
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2 stops
30h 30mMLE-JNB
R15 275
20/1Mon
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25h 20mJNB-MLE
25/1Sat
3 stops
35h 25mMLE-JNB
R15 872
25/12Wed
2 stopsSingapore Airlines
22h 05mCPT-MLE
31/12Tue
2 stopsSingapore Airlines
23h 30mMLE-CPT
R18 347
7/1Tue
2 stopsSingapore Airlines
32h 35mCPT-MLE
15/1Wed
2 stopsSingapore Airlines
36h 45mMLE-CPT
R23 386

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18/11Mon
1 stopQatar Airways
22h 50mJNB-MLE
R5 829
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2 stopsEtihad Airways
25h 30mJNB-MLE
R7 251
18/11Mon
3 stops
20h 35mJNB-MLE
R7 690
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R9 200
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28/10Mon
multi-stopQatar Airways
22h 50mJNB-MLE
5/11Tue
multi-stopQatar Airways
21h 15mMLE-JNB
R11 061
27/10Sun
multi-stopEmirates
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multi-stopEtihad Airways
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26h 35mMLE-JNB
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27/10Sun
multi-stopEmirates
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multi-stopEmirates
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27/10Sun
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27/10Sun
multi-stopQatar Airways
16h 40mCPT-MLE
1/11Fri
multi-stopQatar Airways
25h 15mMLE-CPT
R24 633
26/10Sat
multi-stopSingapore Airlines
56h 35mCPT-MLE
31/10Thu
multi-stopSingapore Airlines
60h 45mMLE-CPT
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