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Best Europe Flight Deals

Cheapest return prices found by our users on KAYAK in the last 72 hours
London
London1 stopR10 016
Amsterdam
Amsterdam1 stopR11 513
Istanbul
Istanbul1 stopR9 178
Paris
Paris1 stopR11 299
Lisbon
Lisbon1 stopR11 067
Athens
Athens1 stopR9 570
Rome
Rome1 stopR9 089
Dublin
Dublin1 stopR10 194
Manchester
Manchester1 stopR11 157
Frankfurt am Main
Frankfurt am MaindirectR11 121
Zurich
Zurich1 stopR10 337
Milan
Milan1 stopR9 962
Madrid
Madrid1 stopR10 800
Munich
Munich1 stopR10 961
Brussels
Brussels2 stopsR10 230
Edinburgh
Edinburgh1 stopR12 368
Copenhagen
Copenhagen1 stopR11 602
Funchal
Funchal1 stopR12 368
London
London1 stopR10 016
Amsterdam
Amsterdam1 stopR11 513
Istanbul
Istanbul1 stopR9 178
Paris
Paris1 stopR11 299
Lisbon
Lisbon1 stopR11 067
Athens
Athens1 stopR9 570
Rome
Rome1 stopR9 089
Dublin
Dublin1 stopR10 194
Manchester
Manchester1 stopR11 157
Frankfurt am Main
Frankfurt am MaindirectR11 121
Zurich
Zurich1 stopR10 337
Milan
Milan1 stopR9 962
Madrid
Madrid1 stopR10 800
Munich
Munich1 stopR10 961
Brussels
Brussels2 stopsR10 230
Edinburgh
Edinburgh1 stopR12 368
Copenhagen
Copenhagen1 stopR11 602
Funchal
Funchal1 stopR12 368

Book Cheap Europe Plane Tickets

 
Here are some of the best deals found on KAYAK recently from the most popular airlines for return flights to Europe that are departing in the next months. While these flights were available on KAYAK in the last 72 hours, prices and availability are subject to change and deals may expire.
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Recent return flight deals to Europe

Wed, Sep 17 - Mon, Sep 22
Qatar Airways Logo
13:00 - 12:10CPT-SAW
22h 10m1 stop
Qatar Airways Logo
20:05 - 10:50SAW-CPT
15h 45m1 stop
R9 446Qatar Airways
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Sat, Sep 20 - Sun, Sep 28
Qatar Airways Logo
13:00 - 12:10CPT-SAW
22h 10m1 stop
Qatar Airways Logo
13:35 - 10:50SAW-CPT
22h 15m1 stop
R9 481Qatar Airways
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Tue, Nov 4 - Sun, Nov 16
Lufthansa Logo
10:10 - 22:55JNB-LHR
14h 45m1 stop
Lufthansa Logo
20:15 - 7:05LHR-JNB
32h 50m1 stop
R10 782Lufthansa
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Wed, Oct 1 - Sat, Nov 29
Lufthansa Logo
19:00 - 16:40JNB-LHR
22h 40m1 stop
Lufthansa Logo
6:35 - 7:05LHR-JNB
22h 30m1 stop
R10 871Lufthansa
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Tue, Sep 23 - Mon, Dec 1
SWISS Logo
19:35 - 17:50JNB-LGW
23h 15m1 stop
SWISS Logo
18:40 - 10:10LGW-JNB
13h 30m1 stop
R10 996SWISS
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Tue, Sep 23 - Mon, Dec 1
SWISS Logo
19:35 - 17:50JNB-LHR
23h 15m1 stop
SWISS Logo
6:00 - 10:10LHR-JNB
26h 10m1 stop
R11 067SWISS
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Sun, Jun 15 - Sun, Jun 22
Emirates Logo
18:25 - 17:55CPT-IST
22h 30m1 stop
Emirates Logo
23:20 - 11:35IST-CPT
37h 15m1 stop
R12 030Emirates
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Mon, Jun 23 - Fri, Jun 27
Emirates Logo
22:20 - 14:25JNB-IST
15h 05m1 stop
Emirates Logo
16:25 - 16:15IST-JNB
24h 50m1 stop
R12 083Emirates
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Tue, Oct 14 - Wed, Oct 29
British Airways Logo
19:25 - 5:35JNB-LHR
11h 10mdirect
British Airways Logo
18:25 - 7:30LHR-JNB
11h 05mdirect
R12 190British Airways
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Fri, Oct 10 - Fri, Oct 31
British Airways Logo
19:25 - 5:35JNB-LHR
11h 10mdirect
British Airways Logo
18:25 - 7:30LHR-JNB
11h 05mdirect
R12 297British Airways
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KAYAK's insights & trends for flights to Europe

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

What is the cheapest flight to Europe?

These are the best return prices found by users searching on KAYAK in the last 72 hours.

The cheapest ticket to Europe from South Africa found in the last 72 hours was to Frankfurt am Main Airport, at R399 return. The most popular route is Cape Town (CPT) to London Heathrow Airport (LHR) and the cheapest return airline ticket found on this route in the last 72 hours was R701.

What is the cheapest month to fly from South Africa to Europe?

To calculate monthly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each month over the last year for flights from South Africa to Europe, removes the top 0.1% to account for outliers, and then takes the median of all values for each month.

The cheapest month for flights from South Africa to Europe is February, when tickets cost R10 943 (return) on average. On the other hand, the most expensive months are July and December, when the average cost of round-trip tickets is R14 489 and R14 418 respectively.

How far in advance should I book a flight from South Africa to Europe?

To calculate weekly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each week before departure over the last year for round-trip flights to Europe, removes the top 0.1% to account for outliers, and then takes the average of all the values for each week.

To get a below-average price on the flight from South Africa to Europe, you should book around 14 weeks before departure. For the absolute cheapest price, our data suggests you should book 18 weeks before departure.

Which is the cheapest airport to fly into in Europe?

Prices will differ depending on the departure airport, but generally, the cheapest airport to fly to in Europe is London Gatwick Airport (LGW), with an average flight price of R6 332.


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Low seasonFebruary
High seasonJune
Cheapest flightR4 901
Best time to beat the crowds (17% less expensive on average)
Most popular time to fly (10% more expensive on average)
Flight from OR Tambo Airport, Johannesburg to London Heathrow Airport

FAQs - booking Europe flights

  • How does KAYAK find such low prices on flights from South Africa to Europe?

    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 South Africa to Europe.

  • How does KAYAK's flight Price Forecast tool help me choose the right time to buy my flight ticket from South Africa to Europe?

    KAYAK’s flight Price Forecast tool uses historical data to determine whether the price for a flight from South Africa to Europe 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 South Africa to Europe?

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

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

    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 South Africa to Europe up to 3 days before/after your preferred dates. You can then pick the flights that suit you best.

  • What is the cheapest day to fly to Europe?

    Based on KAYAK data, the cheapest day to fly to Europe is Tuesday when return tickets can be as cheap as R14 410. On the other hand, the most expensive day to fly is Saturday, when return prices are R16 004 on average.

  • What is the cheapest time of day to fly to Europe?

    The cheapest time of day to fly to Europe is generally in the morning, when round-trip flights cost R643 on average. Morning departures are around 35% cheaper than evening flights, on average. The most expensive time of day to fly to Europe is generally in the evening, which is peak travel time and where the average cost of a ticket is R990.

Top tips for finding cheap flights to Europe

  • Looking for cheap airfare to Europe? 25% of our users found return tickets to Europe for the following prices or less: From Johannesburg OR Tambo R27 257, from Cape Town R34 070
  • Enter your preferred departure airport and travel dates into the search form above to unlock the latest Europe flight deals.

Top 5 airlines flying to Europe

Need help choosing which airline to fly with from South Africa to Europe? 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.
8,1
EmiratesOverall score based on 3263 reviews
8,2Entertainment
8,0Comfort
8,1Boarding
8,3Crew
7,8Food
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Emirates is superb service. The A380 was very comfortable. The cabin crew is really helpful

10,0 ExcellentAli, May 2025HKG - DXB
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Emirates is superb service. The A380 was very comfortable. The cabin crew is really helpful

The best ever, friendly and attentive cabin crew, amazing captains who utilised their expertise for less turbulence, just overall amazing

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

I would never have been able to make the transfer in time without asking for a wheelchair

It was great, a little more leg room would have been better particularly since we were in premium economy

Comfort poor, little leg room, cabin temperature too hot. No free entertainment. No complementary drinks. Overal experience poor and would not travel with them again.

Comfort good. Service as usual poor. Cabin temperature as usual too cold, about 15 degrees

Flight left on time. Bags came quickly. Crew was nice. But internet never worked and the food was awful.

Flight was delayed by and hour but were informed beforehand

Emeritus is ***** Fly dubai is 0 we need better service for Fly Dubai

Swiss airline do not allow online check-in before 24 hrs, this is very inconvenient to us. I tried many ways such as booking code(6 numbers) or 13 booking numbers , neither of them work, Lufthansa is better which allow us to check in even before 30 hrs, so we can assign our seats( not many people want spend extra money to assign seats on top of airfare which is already spent.)

...as stated previously, red tape should be shorted by Swiss in terms of generating refunds...

Clean, efficient and quick response time when we missed our connecting flight.

Delayed 30 mins Forced to check in my carry on luggage

The cushion of the seats are old and very thin. The food can be more tasty or come with salt packages

PLEASE DONT TAKE FORCEFULLY(SIZE APPROPRIATE) CARRY ONS FROM PASSENGERS WHO FOR SOME REASON NEED TO KEEP IT

I slept the whole flight so I can't tell you about the food and there was no entertainment offered. Crew was very nice, seats were comfortable in business, and boarding was easy.

The service was flawless. The trip went great. I flew from Venice, Italy to Tampa, Florida. The issue is my bag (that I checked for free when checking into the flight) was ripped along the side when I collected it from baggage claim in Tampa, last night. I thought of talking with the Tampa baggage claim employees about it and see what could be done, but my bag isn’t a very expensive bag and I didn’t want to make a big deal of it. I’m not sure if I’ll be checking a bag anymore in the future.

We are glinting with united , but over all very disappointed

We are flying with Swiss for a long time but this time was terrible do to are flight cancellations we are in some bad hotel with out normal food

Liked some flight attendants. 1 was rude I'll not say her name I don't want to get her jn trouble on my flight back to Dallas from Doha. Very rude to some races of people clearly. She needs a better attitude and bedside manners. Asking her questions and she responds "WHAT" twice rudely like I was bothering her and "is it going to be cranberry or mango juice with an attitude".

The Qatar Airways staff pre-boarding and also on the flight from Dallas to Doha were incredibly mediocre and arrogant. Consider retraining these individuals Other flights were ok.

Wasn’t allowed to continue with the purchased tickets because I hadn’t been able to go on the first scheduled leg.

Being a QR Platinum member traveling in business class, I expected the staff to be more courteous. Unfortunately, the lady staff was rude attending business class 1K side.

Overall experience was OK. Seats were truly uncomfortable for such a long flight. Food quality was mediocre at best. The staff was great though!

As gold member there is no priority checkin. Meaning you either have to board with your zone or last with business class pax. As economy pax all the baggage bays are filled by the time you arrive

Qatar airways from Doha to guangzhau was excellent big bird Boeing 777 more room and smoothly flight, I Love it

The made us waiting and held our passports and boarding pass making us miss our flights

It was a long flight but overall a good one. The one thing that I would comment on is that there is a real problem with disposable plastic products when it comes to the meal service. It would be great for Qatar Airways to find ways to make its meal service more circular and reduce the immense amount of waste.

From Montreal to Doha , we habe two complaints : 1) They want to charge for Seat Selection, claiming that the Class of ticket bought on Kayak did not cover seat selection. It such a penny pinching rule, I told them, since we paid almost $20,000 our 3 tickets , that rule should never exist. Also I reserved my tickets so many months ahead, I expected they will naturally put the family together or move somebody else to keep our family seating together. I filed a complaint, and NOBODY ANSWERED. 2) In Montreal, Qatar has an arrangement with the National Bank Lounge. It was so overcrowded and the Lounge is so bad in terms of service and food, amenities etc... The WORST lounge . Why Qatar not have another arrangement their Business Class clients in Montreal. The Air France KLM Lounger is better, the Air Canada Lounge is better. Qatar should send somebody to take a look ! Joseph Chung

The plane delay due to a poor judgement of the pilot. It was the only flight that got delay due to fog.

Excellent once on board. Security staff at Johannesburg rude and aggressive.

Complete mess. Our reservation was mistakenly cancelled. After almost missing the connection and walking all over the Munich airport, the Service desk got involved and we were run to our flight. Not all 4 of us in Business and not seated together as originally booked. This was the worst treatment I have ever had. And I travel a lot. 1K million miler.

I wasn’t allowed to board with my children. I was charged outrageous costs for basic carry on size luggage. The entertainment screens were outdated and not user friendly.

Lufthansa charged me $280 to take skiiis when in the US the boot bag and skiis are one check-in bag. This was not advertised and a real shock at the airport. They only took the boot bag as a check-in item. The seats have been squeezed together like any economy airline and legroom is not as good as it used to be. Otherwise, the flight was fine and staff was helpful for making my connection.

Food was good! Crew very polite however when asked to adjust temperature did not help! It was freezing! Seats uncomfortable 😣

Very good. I thought the choice of Mediterranean food such as falafel for lunch was very thoughtful considering we were flying to Cairo.

Service was courteous and attentive. Sat in the exit row. In exchange for leg room I had people tripping over my feet to use it at a hallway from one aisle to the other, had no access to films viaa viewscreen and no underseat storage for medicines or other personal travel needs. Next time I am seated there, I will refuse the exit row.

Using the media screen in economy class is a disaster

My flight from Krakow was delayed over 2hrs. Since i had connecting flight i was worrying that I will not be able to catch flight from Frankfurt to New York. NO information NO help, no one was able to help and let us know if passengers will be able to catch the next flight. Had to run through entire airport and (2) passports control hoping that maybe still be able to board the plane. When i got to the gate i was informed that plane was waiting for passengers that came from delayed planes. Flight departure an hr late. So i run throu airport almost having a heart attach just to fin out that they knew and they were waiting for us. I was just 5 minutes later after "official" boarding ended and they were still letting passengers in, and flight departure an hr. later.

Full flight, but crew was great. No wifi and no seatback entertainment, so had to read...argh!

Maybe a cultural thing but our "business class" seats were basic economy seats with the center seat blocked. I had to put 1 leg in the aisle and 1 under the middle seat footwell. I did not want the lunch and instead asked for some snack items. 10 minutes before landing and after asking again I was presented with 2 of the 3 items and a card reader. Apparently biz class does not entitle you to snacks instead of a meal. I declined. Boarding was a mess. Much standing in line because the various stages of the process were not coordinated. Checkin was chaotic and took a long time. Overall a fail, but we did get to Edinburgh. After doing a go around because we were too fast on final approach. Not impressed. Well, not favorably...

Not the quality I was expecting from a company that has been around for ages and charges high prices

Very bad experience they cancelled my ticket and no body bothered to even inform me, i was on the airport and it’s come to my knowledge that it was cancelled a week back,

Too much long line at the TSA and Security. Prepare for long walk for baggage claim.

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.

LCY airport is an amazing airport and I love the flight from LCY to FRA with BA. Efficient, easy, comfortable and great luggage allownace with BA. I iused to fly predominantley LH, but the service and price - benefit ratio of Lufthansa has deteriorated a lot over the last 5 years. Whereas BA keeps an excellent service level with friendly staff.

Service was very good. Because I use a cane, I was allowed to use Priority Boarding. Biggest problem was extremely limited leg room in Economy class seats. For airplane food, it was alright.

It was just ok. Half the bathrooms were broke on the flight.

1. Missed to deliver bags at Destination 2. no coordination at Layover for flight connection for wheel chair , could have missed flights 3. Customer service agents are not honest , talk with attitude and do not provide correct information about baggage policy

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