Cheap Airfare to South Africa

Due to the few operational budget airlines in Africa, there are also few resources for cheap airfare to South Africa. South Africa is one of the countries in African continent with emerging budget airlines, such as 1Time Airlines and kulula.com. The existing budget airlines offer mainly flights for domestic routes. For example, 1Time serves Johannesburg, Cape Town, and Durban. Meanwhile, rival kulula.com serves Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban, Port Elizabeth, and George.

Therefore, those requiring to fly to South Africa need to find either the best fares from full service airlines or from budget airlines in other countries that fly to South Africa. Interest for all types of airlines to fly to South Africa is on the rise, due to the rising business and investment activity in the region.

There's also Nationwide Airlines, which some classify as a budget airline. Nationwide services Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban, George, and Port Elizabeth in South Africa, plus Livingstone and Lusaka in Zambia. The company also flies to London, UK, Gatwick airport, making it available for connecting international flight travelers.

Finding Cheap Airfare to South Africa

If you don't plan on using any of the budget airlines with your personal flight route, the best methods for getting to the lowest fares with full service airlines is to use online low fare finder tools.

These tools allow you to specify your route, travel dates, and additional information, then list the lowest fares for your requirements.

These tools use ticket information from several reseller agencies, allowing you to save money and get to the low price in minutes. The search is restricted to their specific database of agencies, so you may find even lower fares from a agency that does not provide prices to that particular database.

These tools include:

cheapseats.com
lowestfare.com (operates in association with Priceline)
ebookers.com
travelocity.com

As the budget airline market is developing all the time, budget airlines may start routes serving South Africa. The problem with using lowest fare finder tools is that the budget airlines don't normally use agencies (rather, they sell their tickets directly), thus the budget airline prices are not in those particular databases.