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London
London1 stopR6 875
Manchester
Manchester1 stopR10 168
Birmingham
Birmingham2 stopsR18 183
Edinburgh
Edinburgh1 stopR17 423
Bristol
Bristol1 stopR19 251
Leeds
Leeds1 stopR11 652

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Low season

February

High season

December

Cheapest flight

R3 546
Best time to beat the crowds (13% less expensive on average)
Most popular time to fly and prices are also 0% lower on average.
Flight from Cape Town to London Gatwick Airport

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Top tips for finding cheap flights to the United Kingdom

  • Looking for a cheap flight? 25% of our users found tickets from Cape Town to the following destinations at these prices or less: London R12 144 one-way - R15 644 round-trip
  • Morning departure is around 11% cheaper than an evening flight, on average*.
*Average of the lowest prices shown in KAYAK’s search results for departures within the next 30 days

Top 5 airlines serving from Cape Town to the United Kingdom

Need help choosing which airline to fly with from Cape Town to the United Kingdom? 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.
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EmiratesOverall score based on 3486 reviews
8,0Comfort
8,3Crew
8,2Entertainment
7,9Food
8,1Boarding
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Business class on this plane was adequate, service, amenities, swag, and crew was amazing!

10,0 ExcellentAnonymous, Oct 2024EWR - ATH
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Business class on this plane was adequate, service, amenities, swag, and crew was amazing!

The flight was nice and on time. The comfort can be slightly better in business class

Very good!! If at all, the business class chair/bed was bit small!! It’s because of older plane- as was told!

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

Very good ..nice comfort..crew service was good..and no delays in time ..they always on time..

More than two hours delay I could not do my tax refund because of the delay to check in They lost my luggage

I am vegan. The food was balanced, tasty and enough. I enjoyed the ride. The crew was very friendly and went out of their way to please the passengers.

Everything was superb, only bad point was that the fast track on London Heathrow arrivals was not handed out to me and I had to go back to the gate to collect it.

Boarding in the bus was slow and extremely hot. The flight attendant in the area of row 21 was extremely rude and had the attitude of not wanting to be at work for the day. Emirates you can do better than this

Superb check in, lounge, boarding and flight experience. On time departure and before time arrival. Couldn’t have asked for more

Nothing special.. they could have provided something to eat without a charge

Terrible plane small airbus good for a 1 hr trip I booked business as it is. A night flight and 4hrs trip it was an ordinary economy seat with no one next to me what a joke what a stupid decision to buy business

For the price of the ticket it's probably the best service in the world

Seats are too cramped, but that is a problem with every airline. I actually enjoyed the meal served.

I would recommend flying SWISS to anyone. Very impressed by the quality of food. The staff was extremely kind and accommodating. They arranged a shuttle to help a group of passengers make connecting flights when there was a delay.

I have no complaints. The crew was attentive, pleasant and heloful

It was unclear that additional passport control was needed before boarding. The seats were cramped and uncomfortable even for small persons. The arm rests were unable to be lifted completely out of the way and the media controls cut-out made them uncomfortable to lean on. One audio channel was not working on one of our seats.

Flight was very full and we had to checkin our carry on. Stuff however promised us that our luggage will be the first one to come out and it did

Stuff was very helpful at checkin. Flight attendants were nice. Food wasn’t very good, I expected a little more. Economy Seats are ok. Second flight was very full and they forced us to checkin our carry on.

Great food - movie selection was good. Plane was a few minutes late but got to destination on time.

I felt all of the food tasted the same. And we had five meals over the 16 hrs in the air.

Plane was late with no information or announcement … had to walk up n downstairs.., had not communicated this … and ppl had suitcase to carry .

Like: Plane made it to the destination. Dislike: Food is terrible, no entertainment, very dirty airplane.

Flight was delayed resulting in a series of unfortunate events. I ran the airport as people were yelling my flight anyone who can’t run wouldn’t have made it! Then the luggage is missing. Good company, execution needs fine tuning.

I had a full row so can't imagine how this could be better

Boarding was delayed and people were just sitting there like lost.

Good was great, but no vegetarian option: only beef or chicken. In business class please add a vegetarian option. Thanks

1. They messed up my baby food order. 2. They messed up my confirmed seats. 3. The screen on my seat was not working at all. So, it’s a horrible experience

The experience was amazing! Many thanks to the pilot who informed us that we were passing mt Kilimanjaro and we had the chance to see it !

I like the leg room. I did not like the plane from Chicago to Addis. It was dirty and smelly and toilet area filthy. My screen was not working and kept saying loading. The plane from Addis to Harare was clean , more modern and food looked much fresher and tasted better. Boarding at Addis was a nightmare, long queues and lots of confusion,International space has no seating are and one is standing all the time.

They gave us free up grade to a roomier seat.

Not the best overall, had challenges during boarding due to the weight of my carry-on (over 8 kilos). Interesting enough they don't check all carry-on bags. It was very stressful as Discover worker kept insisting, I had to check my bag. I finally was able to get an exception to keep my carry-on, however, I felt racially discriminated and embarrassed by this. The flight did not have WIFI access and the timing to connect between flights is not enough. As the flight leaving Philadelphia to Frankfurt was delayed, I had about an hour to make my connection. I had to run and ask people to let me go first during immigration and security so I could then barely make it to my next flight, and it was the same process on the way back. It was a disappointed experience overall.

The hot towels before the second meal was an unexpected surprise. The crew was attentive and personable, and that’s a lot on a nine hour flight. And the hot pretzels were a kind of “auf wiedersehn “ to Germany.

Staff are really not attentive. Seem rather disinterested in attending to the customers in general.

They failed to make sure all luggage made it onto the flight. I had to spend a week on vacation with no clothes.

The airplane did not offer standard outlets so I was unable to work on my laptop. This is totally unacceptable for an international flight.

Flight delayed by an hour from the get go which almost cost us our connection which we only made by the grace of God.

Food was tasteless, service pretty bad (no water offered after dinner throughout the night); seats were narrow and tight, with very little legroom.

Missed our flight to London and we were put on coach seats to Munich.

Seats were terribly uncomfortable! Couldn’t sleep! I paid for good seats when scheduled with Lufthansa, got crappy mid-section seats on Air Canada!

Great job notifying of 30 minute delay in departure. Fabulous job making up for the time and arriving as scheduled. Air travel is just no fun anymore with the extreme overcrowding, and someone needs to come up with an innovative plan for loading and unloading passengers (load all window seats first, middle seats second, aisle seats last?). Great job getting the luggage on the carousel in record time!

Flight was fine, food much better than anticipated, and flight attendants were helpful and friendly!

Our headphone plug in was broken, especially we are with 5 years old who like to watch a movie

Free food and drink! Got a late start due to mechanical problems w a luggage loader.

App totally screwed me up trying to check in. Would not let me select a reasonable seat and therefore I was stuck in a totally uncomfortable seat for 7 hours. Will not take the chance again and use other airlines in future where no issue choosing seats

Although it was an overnight flight, the crew could’ve have made more refreshment passes.

All and it was good . But no one woke me when meals came around . Please have a don’t not disturb sign if you opted for that . Left very hungry missing all meals .

Not being stuck in the middle seat between strangers but that’s not the airlines fault

On board was excellent—a remarkable positive change. Check in was horrifying. Forced to check in branded cabin baggage approved bags weighing 10 and 12 kgs each, because desk insisted these were not fit for overhead lockers. Got charged £160 for two bags. Behaviour of staff was hostile, motivated and rude. Wonder if BA pays commissions on collection, or borrows staff from Airport operator. Basle evidently is an airport used by budget airline— and customers are treated like consumers.

I was at the airport 10 hour early. I would have loved to drop luggage in advance but this was possible only 3h before the scheduled time, however BA was so kind to move me to the earlier flight as it had space available at no extra cost. Thank you!

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Recent return flight deals

22/1Wed
1 stopSWISS
15h 05mCPT-LHR
29/1Wed
1 stopSWISS
13h 55mLHR-CPT
R6 875
4/2Tue
1 stopSWISS
24h 00mCPT-LGW
17/2Mon
1 stopSWISS
14h 10mLGW-CPT
R7 038
4/2Tue
1 stopLufthansa
15h 25mCPT-LHR
27/2Thu
1 stopLufthansa
14h 25mLHR-CPT
R8 992
6/2Thu
2 stopsLufthansa
18h 15mCPT-LHR
20/2Thu
1 stopLufthansa
14h 25mLHR-CPT
R11 851
14/2Fri
directBritish Airways
12h 05mCPT-LHR
23/2Sun
directBritish Airways
11h 45mLHR-CPT
R13 606
5/2Wed
1 stopEmirates
30h 05mCPT-STN
25/2Tue
1 stopEmirates
18h 30mSTN-CPT
R13 805
22/1Wed
1 stopEmirates
19h 40mCPT-STN
29/1Wed
1 stopEmirates
18h 30mSTN-CPT
R13 859
22/1Wed
directBritish Airways
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directBritish Airways
11h 40mLHR-CPT
R13 986
4/3Tue
2 stopsEthiopian Air
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2 stopsEthiopian Air
20h 15mLGW-CPT
R15 831
4/2Tue
2 stopsEthiopian Air
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2 stopsEthiopian Air
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R18 002

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directNorse Atlantic UK
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1 stopEthiopian Air
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26/11Tue
multi-stopSWISS
14h 15mCPT-LHR
3/12Tue
multi-stopSWISS
23h 50mLHR-CPT
R8 359
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multi-stopLufthansa
36h 40mLHR-CPT
R10 747
25/11Mon
multi-stopLufthansa
19h 25mCPT-EDI
5/12Thu
multi-stopLufthansa
26h 50mEDI-CPT
R13 009
26/11Tue
directBritish Airways
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3/12Tue
directBritish Airways
11h 45mLHR-CPT
R15 867
24/11Sun
multi-stopEmirates
25h 20mCPT-STN
27/11Wed
multi-stopEmirates
24h 40mSTN-CPT
R17 007
24/11Sun
multi-stopEmirates
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27/11Wed
multi-stopEmirates
19h 35mSTN-CPT
R17 025
25/11Mon
multi-stopEthiopian Air
18h 00mCPT-LHR
26/12Thu
multi-stopEthiopian Air
15h 30mLHR-CPT
R78 089
25/11Mon
multi-stopEthiopian Air
18h 00mCPT-LHR
22/12Sun
multi-stopEthiopian Air
15h 30mLHR-CPT
R94 228
26/11Tue
multi-stopBritish Airways
16h 45mCPT-LHR
24/12Tue
directBritish Airways
11h 35mLHR-CPT
R111 579

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