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Find cheap flights from London Gatwick Airport to South Island from £580

This is the cheapest one-way flight price found by a KAYAK user in the last 72 hours by searching for a flight from Gatwick to South Island departing on 7/9. Fares are subject to change and may not be available on all flights or dates of travel. Click the price to replicate the search for this deal.
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Good to know - Cheap tickets from London Gatwick Airport to South Island

Low season

May

High season

December

Cheapest flight

£580
Best time to beat the crowds (27% less expensive on average)
Most popular time to fly (7% more expensive on average)
Flight from London Gatwick Airport to Christchurch

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  • How does KAYAK find such low prices on flights from London Gatwick Airport to South Island?

    KAYAK is a travel search engine. That means we look across the web to find the best prices we can find for our users. With over 2 billion flight queries processed yearly, we are able to display a variety of prices and options on flights from London Gatwick Airport to South Island.

  • How does KAYAK's flight Price Forecast tool help me choose the right time to buy my flight ticket from London Gatwick Airport to South Island?

    KAYAK’s flight Price Forecast tool uses historical data to determine whether the price for a flight to South Island from London Gatwick Airport is likely to change within 7 days, so travellers know whether to wait or book now.

  • What is the Hacker Fare option on flights from London Gatwick Airport to South Island?

    Hacker Fares allow you to combine one-way tickets in order to save you money over a traditional return ticket. You could then fly to South Island with an airline and back to London Gatwick Airport with another airline.

  • What is KAYAK's "flexible dates" feature and why should I care when looking for a flight from London Gatwick Airport to South Island?

    Sometimes travel dates aren't set in stone. If your preferred travel dates have some wiggle room, flexible dates will show you all the options when flying to South Island from London Gatwick Airport up to 3 days before/after your preferred dates. You can then pick the flights that suit you best.

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Top tips for finding a cheap flight from London Gatwick Airport to South Island

  • Morning departure is around 39% more expensive than an evening flight, on average*.
*Average of the lowest prices shown in KAYAK’s search results for departures within the next 30 days

Top 3 airlines serving from Gatwick to South Island

 
Need help choosing which airline to fly with from Gatwick to South Island? KAYAK airline reviews give an overall score for each airline based on loads of factors, including comfort, boarding, in-flight entertainment and more, to make your decision easier. See airline scores according to verified KAYAK customer reviews.
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Air New ZealandOverall score based on 623 reviews
7.6Food
8.4Boarding
7.9Entertainment
8.8Crew
8.1Comfort
Airline reviews

Short flight so no entertainment, turbulence so no food service - overall flight as expected

8.0 ExcellentMichelle, Apr 2024NPL - AKL
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Short flight so no entertainment, turbulence so no food service - overall flight as expected

Great meal. Best seats ever! They need to teach other airlines how to do that.

Overall excellent but the Captain kept the seat belt sign on for far too long, especially at the beginning and end of the flight. It was 2 hours after take-off before the crew were able to start the service (on an 11 hour night flight, reducing our sleeping time) and the seat belt sign on went on during breakfast (90 mins before landing) and was not turned off again until we landed. This made for an uncomfortable journey of trying to limit fluid intake because it was unclear when the toilets would be available for use.

Food was not good. We asked for Muslim food and it was weird tasteless type of boiled veges.

Crew were pleasant, happy to be there and were a joy to be around. Entire operation was professional, well thought out and ran like a Swiss clock.

United flight from SFO to PDX was cancelled. I will ask for a refund. Had to book on Alaska

They announced food service but then never came around. We also couldn’t land so kept trying to get to runway and then had to come up and go around happened like 3 times and cause the child next to me to start throwing up

There was a snafu with confirming seats at check which left us in limbo for the second leg of our trip. I believe the ANZ app is not well integrated with the systems at the terminal resulting in this disconcerting error.

Flight attendants are always pleasant and helpful. Pilot kept us updated.

Just a hiccup being added to the NZ Traveller Declaration a bit late.

Good flight. Fiod was ready a bit late hence a hurry to finish before landing. Excellent crew and service

Good flight. The food was served a bit late, hence a hurry to finish before landing. Excellent crew and service

I commend the flight attendants on our SFO-SIN flight who went above and beyond to provide us with extra snacks and food. This type of service makes the flight experience personal and awesome.

Cabin Crew always friendly and helpful. Seating cramped - foul smelling from toilets, high risk of disease. Guard personal property such as expensive sunglasses Coffee always awful and cold Meal trays toddler sized Not worth the extra cost to fly SQ - use a budget airline, same if not better experience

Wonderful service, planes and interior in great condition, very pleasant experience

The premium economy seats were not that great. It could have been more premium than economy seats.

People were so nice! Economy seats were small and cramped feeling for me. I’m slender and 6 feet tall

The singapore airline now compared before covid, I like the service before covid. SQ was the best of all airlines but now I am going to look for different airline if I am travelling in asia.

Perfect experience from boarding through to leaving the flight, comfortable and personalised service from all staff, highly recommended

They were able to assist my elderly father and myself after not being able to check in to scoot. The counter service was phenomenal. They did what they could to get us on the next plane so we could catch our Connecting flight. Scoot closed early on us so we ended up missing our flight.

The IFE was unstable the entire flight seats are very dated for business class and meals were not good.

Same problem with very poor food. Gluten free options can taste great, there is not reason to be give suboptimal meals in this situation.

The food on this flight was just terrible. I have a wheat allergy so when booking I ask for gluten free options. The food given was inedible. The bread rolls were rock hard. Once board I was given one and the only thing I could do was eat the chicken slice and piece of tomato on it. Also given was 4 small cubes of fruit, 2 watermelon and 2 pineapple and a bottle of water. My husband had a regular meal and found his very average. Then the evening meal was also disappointing! Some dried out fish with spinach and 3 sticks of dry white sweet potato. No sauce …. 😳 again, the same fruit and water. The passengers had to wait a long time for the dinner food to be served. My husband just wanted to eat and go to sleep so he was a bit annoyed about that. We got off the plane and I was feeling quite hangry. Not enough food or a good eating experience. Emirates used to be a flight we looked forward to… now we are considering looking at other companies for the future.

Flights were both delayed. No luggage on arrival for the whole plane and no contact since submitting a PIR.

Flight got canceled without any prior information and it caused lot of trouble

My Experience was ok. But the gentleman next to me vaped the whole flight and the attendants did nothing, whether they were aware, I’m not sure.

Not that good The crew in the plane were rim professional & almost lost in their work distribution

Absolutely terrible delays for 3 hours changed seats after we paid an upgrade on both legs. It appears it’s up to us to request a refund after they down graded our seat. Never again !!

WORST AIRLINE EVER—FOOD WAS MEDIOCRE AND WIDEBODY 777 BOEING WAS VERY UNCOMFORTABLE! IT WAS NOT WORTH THE MONEY THAT I PAID.

They had superb boarding (started an hour before flight time). Timely pushback from them gate and an early arrival. Flight and service was very comfortable. I wanted to move my flight to an earlier one, only thing was there was no one at emirates in Heathrow to help. Had to call the call the center and pay to change. There were ample seats on the flight though

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Cheapest flights to South Island from London found in 2024

Recent return flight deals

10/6Mon
2 stops
57h 15mLGW-CHC
27/11Wed
2 stops
53h 40mCHC-LGW
£786
18/6Tue
2 stops
50h 40mLGW-CHC
20/8Tue
2 stops
40h 20mCHC-LGW
£808
7/11Thu
2 stops
56h 55mLGW-ZQN
23/11Sat
2 stops
57h 50mZQN-LGW
£815
14/10Mon
2 stops
49h 50mLGW-CHC
17/10Thu
2 stops
37h 20mCHC-LGW
£932
2/6Sun
2 stops
59h 35mLGW-ZQN
16/8Fri
2 stops
37h 00mZQN-LGW
£969
18/9Wed
2 stopsEmirates
26h 50mLGW-CHC
1/10Tue
2 stopsEmirates
37h 00mCHC-LGW
£1,167
9/6Sun
2 stopsEmirates
30h 05mLGW-CHC
25/11Mon
2 stopsEmirates
30h 20mCHC-LGW
£1,207
11/11Mon
1 stopSingapore Airlines
36h 20mLGW-CHC
25/11Mon
1 stopSingapore Airlines
31h 25mCHC-LGW
£1,237
8/9Sun
1 stopSingapore Airlines
36h 15mLGW-CHC
26/9Thu
1 stopSingapore Airlines
30h 35mCHC-LGW
£1,340
14/10Mon
2 stopsAir New Zealand
33h 55mLGW-CHC
17/10Thu
1 stopAir New Zealand
30h 35mCHC-LGW
£1,496

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Recent one-way flight deals

7/9Sat
3 stops
48h 50mLGW-CHC
£580
9/9Mon
3 stops
41h 40mLGW-CHC
£592
9/9Mon
1 stopSingapore Airlines
36h 15mLGW-CHC
£775
7/9Sat
1 stopSingapore Airlines
60h 15mLGW-CHC
£879
6/9Fri
1 stopAir New Zealand
36h 15mLGW-CHC
£1,019
2/9Mon
2 stopsEmirates
39h 50mLGW-CHC
£1,132
19/6Wed
2 stopsQatar Airways
41h 30mLGW-ZQN
£1,138
7/9Sat
2 stopsEmirates
39h 50mLGW-CHC
£1,152
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£1,185
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33h 10mLGW-CHC
£1,494

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Last minute flights from Gatwick to South Island

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22/5Wed
multi-stopEmirates
37h 20mLGW-CHC
20/6Thu
multi-stopEmirates
38h 55mCHC-LGW
£1,360
22/5Wed
multi-stopEmirates
42h 10mLGW-ZQN
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multi-stopEmirates
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£1,372
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multi-stopEmirates
50h 55mZQN-LGW
£1,377
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multi-stopEmirates
45h 40mZQN-LGW
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22/5Wed
multi-stopEmirates
35h 25mLGW-CHC
20/6Thu
multi-stopEmirates
29h 50mCHC-LGW
£1,788
22/5Wed
multi-stopEmirates
42h 10mLGW-ZQN
26/5Sun
multi-stopEmirates
40h 40mZQN-LGW
£1,879
22/5Wed
multi-stopEmirates
37h 00mLGW-ZQN
26/5Sun
multi-stopEmirates
45h 40mZQN-LGW
£1,885
22/5Wed
multi-stopEmirates
35h 25mLGW-CHC
20/6Thu
multi-stopEmirates
29h 50mCHC-LGW
£1,888
24/5Fri
multi-stop
32h 55mLGW-CHC
22/6Sat
multi-stop
30h 35mCHC-LGW
£8,275
24/5Fri
multi-stop
32h 50mLGW-CHC
22/6Sat
multi-stop
37h 00mCHC-LGW
£8,705

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London Gatwick Airport - South Island Flights

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London Gatwick Airport (LGW)United Kingdom

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