Cheap Flights to Europe

Use the flight price comparison tool on the left to contrast the airfares of various airliners and book a cheap flight. Use SouthAfrica.TO travel vouchers to further reduce the cost of your flight to Europe (you can earn travel vouchers by emailing us a writeup of a trip to Europe).

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Direct flights

Cheap flights

Airports in Europe

Time zones

Flight Specials

2013-06-20 KLM Royal airfares. Flights to Europe from R5958* (Johannesburg to Geneva). Johannesburg to Amsterdam from R6903* (1st September - 10th September), Johannesburg to Barcelona from R6377* (15th September - 25th September), Johannesburg to Frankfurt from R6940* (1st October - 10th October), Johannesburg to Geneva from R5958* (22nd July - 9th August), Johannesburg to London from R6940* (16th July - 10th August), Johannesburg to Prague from R6360* (1st August - 9th August), Johannesburg to Venice from R6354* (29th September - 8th October), Cape Town to Amsterdam from R7373* (2nd September - 10th September), Cape Town to Dublin from R7368* (1st October - 8th October), Cape Town to Geneva from R7022* (29th July - 13th August).

*The longer the time which has elapsed since these flight specials were published, the greater the chance that they may have changed.

Direct flights

From Johannesburg you can fly directly to Europe with Air France (Paris), British Airways (London), KLM (Amsterdam), Lufthansa (Frankfurt), SAA (Munich, London) and Virgin Atlantic (London).

From Cape Town you can fly direct to Europe with Air France (Paris), BA (London), KLM Royal Dutch Airways (Amsterdam), South African Airways (London) and Virgin Atlantic Airways (London).

There are no direct flights from Durban to Europe. Either fly via Johannesburg or with Emirates via Dubai.

Cheap flights to Europe

From a fuel consumption point of view it doesn't make sense, but the cheapest flights to Europe are often with Emirates, Etihad and Qatar Airways.

Time zones

The time difference between South Africa and the UK varies from being 1 hour ahead in the South African winter (when the UK has daylight saving) to 2 hours and in the South African summer.

Amsterdam
Cape Town, Johannesburg
Frankfurt, Munich
London
Paris

Map of Europe with direct airports pinpointed

Attractions

Here's video footage from shore excursions to Izmir (Turkey), Istanbul (Turkey) and Dubrovnik (Croatia).