Cheap Flights from Cape Town to Durban

You want to get on the cheapest flight from Cape Town to Durban. The way to make sure that you get on cheap flights from Cape Town to Durban is by:

typing your flight details into the airline quotation engine on the left and seeing what airfare it spits out
earning SouthAfrica.TO travel vouchers and using them to discount your flight prices (to earn vouchers, simply email us a review of your flight)

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Airlines operating flights from Cape Town to Durban

Airlines	Airports	Stops
British Airways	Cape Town to Durban International Airport (DUR)	non-stop
Kulula Airlines	Cape Town to Durban International Airport (DUR)	non-stop
Mango Airlines	Cape Town to Durban International Airport (DUR)	non-stop
SA Express	Cape Town to Durban International Airport (DUR)	non-stop
Note that flights booked on the SAA website involve a codeshare with Mango & SA Express - SAA itself does not fly from Cape Town to Durban.

A direct flight from Cape Town to Durban takes some 2 hours. The driving distance from Cape Town to Durban is some 1606km, and the shortest flight path is some 1278km.

Latest Cape Town to Durban airlines price survey

travel date	1time airline	British Airways	Kulula	Mango	SAA
Mango continues to offer the cheapest flights from Cape Town to Durban.
24 May 2013	-	1542	-	1063	1361

Airlines update their flight prices constantly, so the information listed above is out of date. To find the cheapest airline or bus with which to travel from Cape Town to Durban, you'll need to check the current flight prices.

Latest Cape Town to Durban bus & train survey

								Shosholoza Meyl train
travel date	Baz Bus	Citiliner	City 2 City	Greyhound	SA Roadlink	Intercape	Translux	Economy class	Tourist Class
Shosholoza Meyl is the cheapest option for land travel on this route. With the current bus driver strikes in South Africa, opting for train travel would be the safer option from Cape Town to Durban.
24 May 2013	1480	500	480	605	599	500	600	470	850

Note that the Baz Bus is targeted specifically to the backpacker market and is a hop-on hop-off door-to-door transport network and is not therefore directly comparable with other mainland bus services.

Flight specials from Cape Town to Durban

Unless it's actually the day of the flight special you're unlikely to obtain these prices (and then only usually only available for a few hours), but these were the latest specials each of the airlines offered from Cape Town to Durban.

	BA special -	Kulula special -	Mango special -
Flight price special	-	-	-

Don't want to fly from Cape Town to Durban?

As an alternative to flying from Cape Town to Durban; you could travel by road, rail or even sea.

Cape Town to Durban by road

An alternative is to drive from Cape Town to Durban. It's relatively easy as there's only one road you need to follow, you would take the N2 national Road (the longest national road in South Africa), which stretches all the way from Cape Town to Durban (you'll drive through 3 of South Africa's provinces - the Western Cape Province, Eastern Cape Province and KwaZulul-Natal Province). Along the way you'll pass the towns of Swellendam, Mossel Bay, George, Knysna, Port Elizabeth and East London, Mthatha, Kokstad and Port Shepstone. Attractions along the route are:

bungi jumping on the Gouritz River bridge (just before Mossel Bay)
the pristine beaches of Plett (enberg Bay)
World's highest commercial bungi jump off the Bloukrans river, just after Knysna
The beautifully formed waves of Jeffrey's Bay, which attracts surfers from all over the world
Nelson Mandela's birthplace

Cape Town to Durban by bus

If you don't want to drive yourself, you can catch a bus trip from Durban to Johannesburg:

Baz bus	Baz Bus operates a hop-on hop-off bus tour across South Africa, and is especially popular amongst backpackers, stopping off at 180 youth hostels along its route
Greyhound bus	The Greyhound bus operates a traditional bus service through the main centres of South Africa, Mozambique and Zimbabwe (Bloemfontein, Bulawayo, Butterworth, Cape Town, Durban, East London, Empangeni, Harare, Johannesburg, Kimberley, Nelspruit, Newcastle, Maputo, Mossel Bay, Port Elizabeth, Pretoria, Queenstown, Swinburne and Umtata)
Intercape bus	The Intercape bus operates a traditional bus service across a vast network of South Africa and some of its neighbouring countries.

Cape Town to Durban by train

Spoornet's Shosholoza Meyl operates train trips from Cape Town to Durban, and their central reservations may be contacted at 086 000 8888.

Cape Town to Durban cruise

MSC Cruises offers the occassional cruise from Cape Town to Durban, on the MSC Sinfonia and MSC Opera cruise ships.

News

2 Nov 2011	1time airline files for liquidation and flies its last CPT-DUR flight.
7 Nov 2011	Velvet Sky airline commences Cape Town to Durban flights on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays. The initial price is R439. The airline would go into liquidation in early 2012.
10 Jan 2011	SA Express starts flying from Cape Town to Durban: "The domestic and regional airline will operate the Durban-CapeTown-Durban route a minimum of 3 times daily during weekdays and 2 times a day during weekends. In order to adequately accommodate customers who frequent this business and leisure route, SA Express has factored in frequency, availability and timing of flights in this addition to its schedule. The flights will initially be operated by a CRJ-200 aircraft".
15 Dec 2010	Comair Limited, begins operating an additional British Airways return flight on the Cape Town to Durban route. The additional BA flight is scheduled once a day from Monday to Friday, adding to the existing schedule of 3 return flights per day, Monday to Friday, and one return flight on Saturday and Sunday. The flight leaves Cape Town for Durban at 13h30, arriving in Durban at 15h25.
1 Nov 2010	SAA Cape Town to Durban flights are stopped. From this point flights booked with SAA from Cape Town to Durban will be flown by Mango Airlines.