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Travelling By Air – UK To South Africa

February 6th, 2010

There are quite a number of options for flight from UK to South Africa. This makes it easy for you to even choose a convenient airport to fly from. For example you can either depart from London (LON), London Heathrow (LHR), Glasgow (GLA), Manchester (MAN), Newcastle (NCL) or Birmingham (BHX) airport.

You can also get to pick a particular airport that you want to arrive at in South Africa. Of the 10 major airports 3 of them are international airports i.e. the OR Tambo International airport in Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban international airports. The most popular one is the OR Tambo, which you should also consider unless you are interested in the other cities.

Actually most of the flights destined for Cape town or Durban from the UK go via Johannesburg.

London (LON), UK to Johannesburg, South Africa

There are six flights you can consider booking for this route. That is, Swiss air, Lufthansa, Emirates, Air France, Etihad Airways and the South Africa airways. South African Airways is the only one that offers a non stop flight.

This gives it the shortest flight time of bout 11 hours and 35 minutes. This flight will leave London for Johannesburg at 18.00 hrs and arrive at 07.25 hrs the next day.

If you want an early departing flight then you can book with Air France. It will leave for South Africa at 06.40 hrs and go via Paris De Gaulle. It gets there at 09:00 and lives for South Africa at 10:30 and gets to Johannesburg at 22:00.for further details about how you make your travel arrangements and how to book your ticket visit:

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