Cheap Flights from Cape Town to Washington DC

You want to book the cheapest flight from Cape Town to Washington DC. To make a cheap flight reservation:

• type your date of departure and date of return into the flight price comparison and reservation tool on the left

• go to the flight reservation website of each airline operating flights from Cape Town to Washington DC (links to airlines' online flight reservation systems are listed below)

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Airlines flying from Cape Town to Washington DC

Airline	Airports	Stops
British Airways	Cape Town International Airport (CPT) to Washington Dulles International Airport (IAD)	1-stop (25h28m) London (Heathrow)
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines	Cape Town International Airport (CPT) to Washington Dulles International Airport (IAD)	1-stop (21h35) Amsterdam (Schipol)
Air France<	Cape Town International Airport (CPT) to Washington Dulles International Airport (IAD)	1-stop Paris
Austrian Airlines	Cape Town International Airport (CPT) to Washington Dulles International Airport (IAD)	2-stops Vienna Frankfurt or London
Iberia - suspended from 1 May 2012
South African Airways	Cape Town International Airport (CPT) to Washington Dulles International Airport (IAD)	1-stop (20h20) Johannesburg (OR Tambo)
Virgin Atlantic Airways	Cape Town International Airport (CPT) to Washington Dulles International Airport (IAD)	1-stop (20h50m) London (Heathrow)

Flight prices

The flight prices illustrated below were valid on the day that they were obtained, but have probably changed since:

survey date outbound date return date	KLM	Air France	BA	NWA	SAA	United	Virgin	Emirates	Lufthansa	Qatar	American Airlines
20120314 20120601 20120731	-	9800	14768	15289	9539	13328	8250	12719	14137	11030	13093
20080706 20081225 20090112	14536	17086	17196	10724	13886	10656	16954

In our only survey of the route, United Airlines was offering the cheapest price (R10,656).

Flight path from Cape Town to Washington DC

The picture below shows the shortest flight path from Cape Town to Washington DC (ignoring winds, restricted flight zones and air traffic). The shortest distance is 12753 km.