There are many airlines that offer flights from UK to South Africa. This makes it easy for you to even choose a convenient airport to fly from. For example you can either depart from London (LON), London Heathrow (LHR), Glasgow (GLA), Manchester (MAN), Newcastle (NCL) or Birmingham (BHX) airport.

You can also get to pick a particular airport that you want to arrive at in South Africa. There are about 10 airports there but there are only 3 international airports i.e. the OR Tambo International airport in Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban international airports. Unless you definitely have an interest in the other cities then OR Tambo airport is good arrival point.

Actually most of the flights destined for Cape town or Durban from the UK go via Johannesburg.

London (LON), UK to Johannesburg, South Africa

There are six flights you can consider booking for this route. That is, Swiss air, Lufthansa, Emirates, Air France, Etihad Airways and the South Africa airways. If you are looking for non-stop flights UK to South Africa then consider the latter.

The flight takes 11 hours and 35 minutes, which is the shortest time on this route. The South African airways depart from London at 18:00 and gets to Johannesburg at 07:25 the following day.

If you are looking into leaving early in the morning then consider Air France. It will leave for South Africa at 06.40 hrs and go via Paris De Gaulle. It will arrive there at 09.00hrs and takes off for Johannesburg at 10.30 hrs where it will arrive at 22.00 hrs.For more information and detals about airfares and travel arrangements check out any of these:

• Klm Flights Into South Africa
• Flight From Cape Town To Port Elizabeth
• Flights Johannesburg To Bloemfontein

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