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Where can I fly from Johannesburg?Cheapest return flight prices found by our users on KAYAK in the last 5 days
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from £61per person
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Zimbabwe
1h 15mNonstop
from £129per person
Namibia
Namibia
1h 55mNonstop
from £215per person
Tanzania
Tanzania
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from £323per person
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United Arab Emirates
7h 55mNonstop
from £428per person
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from £506per person
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KAYAK's insights & trends for flights from Johannesburg

Get data-powered insights and trends into flights from Johannesburg to help you find the cheapest flights, the best time to fly and much more.

Which are the most popular places to fly to from Johannesburg OR Tambo Airport?

Based on KAYAK flight searches, the most popular place to fly from OR Tambo is Durban King Shaka Intl (28% of total searches). The next most popular destinations are Cape Town Intl (17%) and Johannesburg (11%).

What are the most popular international flights out of Johannesburg OR Tambo Airport?

There are many international destinations you can fly to from Johannesburg OR Tambo Airport. The most popular international destinations among KAYAK users are London, Manchester and Belfast.

What are the most popular countries to fly to from Johannesburg OR Tambo Airport?

Based on KAYAK flight searches, the most popular country to fly to from Johannesburg OR Tambo Airport is Zimbabwe (26% of total searches). The next most popular destinations are United Arab Emirates (20%) and Qatar (11%).

Which cities can I fly to direct from Johannesburg OR Tambo Airport?

There are loads of places you can fly direct to from Johannesburg OR Tambo Airport. The most popular destinations for direct flights among KAYAK users are Durban, Hoedspruit, Cape Town, Bloemfontein and Nelspruit. On average, the cheapest of these destinations on KAYAK over the last 2 weeks for a return flight was Durban at £43, while the most expensive was Hoedspruit, at £106.

Which international cities can I fly to direct from Johannesburg OR Tambo Airport?

There are many international destinations you can fly to direct from Johannesburg OR Tambo Airport. The most popular international destinations from KAYAK users are Walvis Bay, Gaborone, Maputo, Victoria Falls and Blantyre. On average, the cheapest of these destinations on KAYAK over the last 2 weeks for a return flight was Gaborone at £87, while the most expensive was Blantyre, at £792.

What is the longest direct flight from Johannesburg OR Tambo Airport?

The longest direct flight you can take from Johannesburg OR Tambo Airport is to Atlanta, with a duration of 16h 12m. The next longest is New York at 15h 35m, followed by a flight to Hong Kong at 13h 20m.

What are the cheapest places to fly to from Johannesburg OR Tambo Airport?

The cheapest destination for a flight from Johannesburg found on KAYAK in the last two weeks was Durban, costing £30. The next cheapest destinations were Port Elizabeth at £33 and Bloemfontein at £34.

Good to know - Cheap tickets from Johannesburg to Worldwide

Low season

February

Cheapest flight

£30
Best time to beat the crowds (8% less expensive on average)
Most popular time to fly (11% more expensive on average)
Flight from OR Tambo Airport, Johannesburg to Durban

Flights from Johannesburg: the best tips from KAYAK users' own experiences

Insights shared by verified travellers who flew from Johannesburg to anywhere 
CarmenFlew with South African-Dec 2025
Charge your device before boarding the plane and there is free entertainment.
GregFlew with Lufthansa-Apr 2025
Get through security early at Johannesburg, they are rude, aggressive and obstructive. Pathetic.
MartinFlew with Qatar Airways-Jun 2024
If you are gold or platinum flying economy class insist on priority boarding
DaviesFlew with Ethiopian Air-Jun 2024
Airport security checking in is very slow and will delay boarding. So be there early.
SihleFlew with Turkish Airlines-May 2024
Friendly and helpful staff at Johannesburg Airport, clear signage to terminal and gates
KarenFlew with Qantas Airways-May 2024
try to get an aisle seat, the window seats are way too tight.

FAQs for booking flights out of Johannesburg

  • What is OR Tambo also known as?

    Johannesburg OR Tambo Airport’s airport code is JNB. It can also be referred to as O.R. Tambo Intl, OR Tambo, OR Tambo Airport, Johannesburg.

  • How does KAYAK find such low prices on flights from OR Tambo Airport, Johannesburg?

    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 OR Tambo Airport, Johannesburg.

  • How does KAYAK's flight Price Forecast tool help me choose the right time to buy my flight ticket from OR Tambo Airport, Johannesburg?

    KAYAK’s flight Price Forecast tool uses historical data to determine whether the price for a flight from OR Tambo Airport, Johannesburg 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 OR Tambo Airport, Johannesburg?

    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 your destination with an airline and back to OR Tambo Airport, Johannesburg with another airline.

  • What is KAYAK's "flexible dates" feature and why should I care when looking for a flight from OR Tambo Airport, Johannesburg?

    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 from OR Tambo Airport, Johannesburg up to 3 days before/after your preferred dates. You can then pick the flights that suit you best.

Top tips for finding a cheap flight out of Johannesburg

  • Looking for a cheap flight from Johannesburg to Anywhere? 25% of our users found tickets from Johannesburg to Anywhere for the following prices or less: Cape Town £61 one-way - £123 round-trip; Dubai £337 one-way - £518 round-trip; Harare £85 one-way - £168 round-trip

Reviews of the top 5 airlines flying from Johannesburg to Worldwide

 
Need help choosing which airline to fly with from Johannesburg to Worldwide? 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.
8.4
AirlinkOverall score based on 91 reviews
6.4Entertainment
8.9Crew
8.1Food
8.3Comfort
8.2Boarding
Airline reviews

Flight cancelled by Seuss air and all onward flights missed

2.0 MediocreAnonymous, Jul 2026
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Flight cancelled by Seuss air and all onward flights missed

This is a quick flight from JoBerg to Livingstone. The small meal was very good, surprisingly, not a sandwich but a nice little chicken salad. Easy breezy flight if you travel long distance a lot. There is no entertainment and none needed for this short flight

Loved the in flight meal! Surprisingly good.! Staff on board were all friendly and professional! Book as far ahead as possible! Get your seat selection locked in ASAP

Far better than last return flight we had when the flight was delayed due to technical error and we missed our connection flight with no initial support from Airlink. This time thankfully all went well and will use again.

This was an excellent flight with great crew and a full complement service including a sandwich, a drink from the bar, tea, coffee or water with the meal and then a further bar service.

I can't understand how the priority boarding queue has so many people standing in it. I was travelling business class and arrived 40 minutes before boarding time and there we about 25 people in the queue ahead of me?

Delayed boarding... we were kept standing in the bus for too long... the bus was packed and smelling people!!! As if it's not enough,when we finally came off the bus, we had to wait again standing in the sun waiting to board..

Just an short flight. So it was great. Airlink is pretty good😀

Easy short flight from Johannesburg to Harare. Boarding was slow, flight attendants were friendly. They did a meal service on this short flight, including wine, which was pretty cool.

Flight was moved forward by 2 hours with 3 days notice. This meant I could not connect from flight from Johannesburg. So did not take the flight and drove to Kasane. Will never use Air Botswana unless absolutely necessary. Mark

You get what you pay for. Uncomfortable seats, pay sky high prices for snacks, a passenger along side me was distressed and crying through most of the flight. I went to the tail of the plane to give to the distraught passenger. A stewardess approached me and I explained the situation. I was then charged R19 for a small bottle of water.!!!

A snack was advertised on my booking but when they came around I was told that is wrong. I wanted juice so I had to pay for it. I flew business class and was unable to book a business class seat on the website. Lucky there was still one available when I checked in at the airport.

I love FlySafair! PUNCTUALITY is what they do best, and thier schedule is so flexible, how they've structured Departure slots, one can decide to leave any time of the day. I am a coffee lover, I was astonished with their partnership with Boottleggers to allow us have specialty coffee on board, so wonderful.

Don’t waist money on priority. Changed the gates. Then let everyone through while priority row was twice as long. Got sooner to my seat jumping to the end of the line

Old planes and lack of attention to detail. Horrible experience.

Very good experience considering that is low cost company. Good value for money.

Great airline. Will use again. Keep up the great work though and maintain your customer retention. And please keep an eye on the bottom line and stay in business for decades to come and grow from strength to strength.

For the first time ever we had a grumpy check in agent. I got told off for not having a lock on my bag and she looked seriously put out that we were checking in as a group of 7. Very unusual as I fly regularly with Safair and all the staff have always been super friendly.

Seats are small. But I guess that will not change on my behalf. Otherwise their service is great.

Loved our Cabin Crew you could tell they enjoyed there job. The Chief Stuart was a delight. What a great way to start our day with such a positive company.

Child’s meal was great along with other nice touches for kids.

There is an issue with A380 when it arrives in Munich, because a business class passengers like me have to wait for the first class passengers to disembark, which takes some time while you are also offloading economy passengers this causes an issue at customs where your business class passengers end up behind a large bulk of economy passengers This is a frustration and the early dislocation should be and is supposed to be a benefit of business class

This was my first time flying with Emirates. Overall, the experience was very good. I thought the seats in economy would have been a bit more comfortable, but, they seem to be on par with other airlines. The food was excellent and very satisfying. If you can afford it, I would definitely suggest upgrading to at lest premium economy seats for long haul flights.

First time and very memorable, the finest flying experience ive ever had

No Vegetarian options onboard, made to wait for a long time for boarding

The internet connection did was not functioning as per normal.

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

The individual attention the crew gives to passengers is commendable and I find them positively helpful.

For such a long flight I feel the spacing of seats could’ve been better to make it more comfortable for passengers. Very little space to move & stretch legs.

The flight was delayed in Jhb and I could have had some help in Dubai trying to get to my connecting flight to London

This airline has now finally turned the corner and reminiscent of the old day service. Would definitely recommend flying with SAA.

Great experience all-round. From re-checking baggage directly before leaving the arrivals hall (coming from international), to fast and friendly boarding, to complimentary drinks and snacks on board. This was a very pleasant experience - even my luggage was delivered on the belt very quickly and it was a wonderful end to a 28 hour transit.

I had a very good experience from boarding to arrivals.

Boarded almost 48 hrs later after a scheduling change on my initial flight that was not communicated either by kayak of SAA.

I had booked a ticket for a 6:40 am departure in July 2025, but it appears there was a change to 8;00 am, which meant I missed my connecting flight which departed 10 m minutes before I landed. I had seen this problem only the previous day and try to resolve it with South African air, but they are very uncooperative on the phone. All they could say was all flights were fully booked and I ended up buying paying $2,000+ to secure a ticket for my family to ensure we got out of South Africa by Monday, which am currently pursuing with the airline.

The food options were beef or veg, No alternatives for Hindus, that don't eat beef...

On time flight; otherwise not impressed by the check- in- purchased business class and the aircraft was downgraded; no refund given for the difference. Told I could access the lounge due to the above and was questioned by the lounge check- in person who was not friendly

Very bad, Linda the hostess was very rude all the time

Everything the crew werr nice and helpful plus the food was good

At the last minute as I boarded the airplane they made me check my carry on bag. When I arrived my Apple Watch, sunglasses, and medications had been stolen. I find this absolutely unacceptable. I will never fly with SAA again.

They lost my luggage on my way to Namibia (I was unable to review that flight as I was in the bush/off line) It took 3 days to get my bag and I had to pay $375.00 to have it transported to my location as it was over 100 Kilometers from that Airport and the local Airlink carrier would not got that far.

Great flight, last one out the air-conditioning was far to hot and the return it was to cold and then issued blankets. On the outward bowned the headset connector didn't work properly. You had intermittent sound from the audio socket.

Terrible service especially for premium economy. Much more comfortable seats on other providers

Our original booking with Kayak -our first experience -was exactly what we wanted and worked well. Updates were friendly and reassuring as were the contacts with UnderPricer so a big win-win. We learned a lot on your reliability and will definitely put you on our organisational list for the future.

If they wouldn't have canceled the flight WITHOUT informing me until I looked at my ticket and saw I had 2 extra layovers in 2 different cities than the ones I paid for? That would have been nice.

Poor BA get a lot of stick and have some problems getting your bags to the same destination BUT the whole experience is very much 5 star and probably due to excellent, helpful and sooo British staff. We travelled in economy plus.

The 7 hour delay in Johannesburg was extremely tiresome, with poor communication at check-in and a sad R120 voucher as compensation. All in all sitting for 10 hours on an airport was pretty bad. At arrival the baggage arrival took 2 hours. All in all, a very, very long trip.

British Air ways was good - American Airlines not: waited at gate for “mechanical issues” and stood at gate.. plane delayed, … staff at desk rude, had to check my personal carry on item, toilet not working… “please use the working one sparingly- it will overflow in the cabin”

Annoying customer pushing my seat did not make this pleasant.

the headphone jack was damaged making it impossible to keep a clear sound. while it is beyond the airline's control how many children are on each flight, it becomes very difficult to enjoy the flight when there are 5 or 6 children all crying and screaming at the same time. I know there is no good solution at the industry level, but I think there are good reasons to try to develop some solutions rather than just say it is the luck of the draw. maybe you could show a seating map where children who are booked are a different color, that would allow us to know what to expect and possibly rebook to a different seat or take a different flight. maybe some of the covid-related ideas about redesigning the cabin for more privacy and hygiene could be further developed and tested. on my leg from London to Washington DC, the passenger next to us was coughing consistently for long periods of time. it was obvious she had been ill and knew it before boarding. this leads me to think we should consider additional screening measures because some of the public is no longer acting responsible or ethical in regards to covid and health protocols. just answering questions on a check-in survey does not seem sufficient to convince people to not fly when they are ill and symptomatic.

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