Air Fares From Bangkok To Cape Town

Sunday, November 22nd, 2009 at 1:45 pm

There are generally two departure points in Bangkok i.e. you can choose the Bangkok – Don Muang (DMK) to Cape Town route or the Bangkok (BKK) to Cape Town route. Since flights for the DMK route are not usually available we will look at the BKK route.

(BKK) Bangkok to Cape Town

You can make a choice from these cheap flights to Cape Town i.e. Kenya Airways, Ethiopian Airlines, Thai Airways International, Emirates, Cathay Pacific Airways, Malaysia Airways Singapore Airlines or the KLM Royal Dutch Airlines.

The cheapest flight amongst these is Kenya Airways and Ethiopian, which costs about half of what other flights are charging for the same trip.

Ethopian Airways will leave Bangkok for Addis Ababa at 01.40hrs. It gets there at 06:35 in the morning and leaves for Johannesburg at 08:50 and gets there at 13:15. From here it will head to Cape Town at 15.00 hrs and arrive 17.10hrs the following day.

All in all this cheap flight to Cape Town takes 16 hours and 40 minutes on air and the overall journey is 22 hours and 20 minutes.

Emirates is also another airline that is offering cheap flights from Bangkok to Cape Town. It leaves Bangkok at 20:30 for Dubai. You must be prepared to sleep overnight because it will arrive in Dubai at 23.35 hrs and only leave for Johannesburg at 04.40 hrs the next day.

It will reach Johannesburg at 10.50 hrs and depart for Cape Town. The final journey takes about two hours and by 15:10 you would be in Cape Town.

Other flights to consider include Cathay Pacific, Malaysia and Singapore Airlines. The one with the highest charges and longest journey is KLM.

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