Travelling By Air – UK To South Africa
There are quite a number of options for flight 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.
Then you also have a variety of options on which airport you will be landing 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.
In fact most of the flights that eventually get to Durban or Cape Town from UK make a stop at Johannesburg first.
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. South African Airways is the only one that offers a non stop flight.
This gives it the shortest flight time of bout 11 hours and 35 minutes. This flight will leave London for Johannesburg at 18.00 hrs and arrive at 07.25 hrs the next day.
If you want an early departing flight then you can book with Air France. It lives London at 06:40 and flies to South Africa 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:
- Flights Into South Africa
- Distance From Cape Town To Port Elizabeth
- Distance Johannesburg To Bloemfontein
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