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Cape Town
Cape Town1 stopR10 255
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Port Elizabeth2 stopsR13 607

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Low season

May

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July

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R6 197
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Top tips for finding cheap flights to South Africa

  • Book at least 1 week before departure in order to get a below-average price.
  • High season is considered to be January, November and December. The cheapest month to fly from Riyadh is May.
  • Morning departure is around 5% more expensive 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 4 airlines serving from Riyadh to South Africa

Need help choosing which airline to fly with from Riyadh to South Africa? 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 3410 reviews
8,3Crew
8,0Comfort
8,1Boarding
8,2Entertainment
7,9Food
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Emirates is always a pleasure to travel on. From the spectacular First and Business Class configurations of your big A380 and 777, to the Bar Lounge to, of course, your impecable on board flight attendance and their iconic uniform, now also even available for young girls. All the destinations that Emirates offers makes it an airline of choice many a time.

10,0 ExcellentAlvaro, Nov 2024DXB - VIE
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Emirates is always a pleasure to travel on. From the spectacular First and Business Class configurations of your big A380 and 777, to the Bar Lounge to, of course, your impecable on board flight attendance and their iconic uniform, now also even available for young girls. All the destinations that Emirates offers makes it an airline of choice many a time.

We was missed the flight They doesn’t lest us fly next flight without payment They charge me 606 hundred dollars What is very unacceptable,our first fight ticket was almost 2000 dollars, again paid 700 it’s hurt … airlines need to do something please

Boarding was a mess, no one managing the queues. I got my meal as the pilot announced starting commencing descent and basic drink not available. No air bridge so takes forever to deplane the A380 onto buses.

The food options for children is limited The business class bed is not fully lie flat, and this is an uncomfortable sleep

The lounge staff at reception were inefficient and robotic. Boarding process was chaotic at the gate with no priority for business and first. At arrival into Dubai, no upper deck door . Food option and quality for this flight was awful . Thankfully the bar is always good.

I have a very good experience flighting with emirates. All my expectations were fit well.

‏One of the worst flights I took in My life, delays after delays, then the AC is not working and we were living in a sauna,& we were sweating like pigs. and this even before take off. Next we arrived late one hour late, baggage claims worse than the delay itself add to that one more hour to get our luggage. I am extremely disappointed and my experience is I’m never going to fly on Emirates airline. Immigration was the only good thing about this trip. It took us seven minutes to go through to the luggage claims.

When you buy Emirates you don’t expect low cost. Choice of coffee/tea vs water. Entertainment on demand. Seat distance won’t allow food tray to extend without hitting belly (and I didn’t grow lately)

The experience of the flight. The food options have definitely gone down

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

The only thing that could have been better, is that the food trays get left way to long after a meal. We had a snack 8 hrs into the trip, and they left us with the boxes and cups for way too long. It is not fun being trapped in your seat unnecessarily

Seating is terrible, having seats so crammed is unacceptable for a 15-hour journey. I cannot stress enough how uncomfortable it is to sit in such an aircraft. Leg space is roomier in a domestic aircraft. I have not experienced this kind of crammy seating in domestic flights either in the US or other international airlines overseas.

No difference between US airline and Qatar. Both cramp as many people. The airline seems to change planes without notice choice is seating when making reservations online doesn’t match the plane a passenger is on. Especially paying extra. Nothing special No different than US carriers.

Did not like anything. Seats were crammed, leg space was minimal and food was terrible. This was the first time traveling overseas in American Airlines and was the worst experience ever. Have learned a lesson to never travel in American Airlines.

The rows of seats in economy class are seriously close to one another making eating and resting just about impossible - there is hardly any legroom. Anyone larger than average size would have an incredibly uncomfortable flight. I had to basically share my seat with the lady passenger next to me as she was too big to fit into her allotted seat.

More facilities to transport to the gates......felt too much walking distance

For a short flight, Qatar Airways offers very good onboard service.

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

they give hard time at checking, they not allow computer bag or purse

Bad experience with the delay n long wait time for connecting flight after missing the connection flight from Doha.

Should have had business class line in immigration. Food quality suboptimal

Used to Etihad employees are very rude and unprofessional but now better than before over all is okay now

This flight was a dreamliner so I think the space was ok for the legs, but the option for food was again limited and the crew was same.

Boarding was efficient, had to check in cabin luggage. Seats were narrow, food was more in quantity, received cabin luggage on the luggage belt which was fine.

Needs better seat for business class. My seat was falling apart. Also no WiFi on that flight

Good. The food was very bad. Except for the chicken rice, rest of the dish went to trash.

The flight was delayed which cause me to miss my connecting flight in AbuDhsbi airport.

I did not have a good experience in both flights of Etihad. First of all, when I was booking the flight, there were two options. The first option was a cheaper flight with longer layover (9 hrs), or a more expensive flight with shorter layover (2 hrs). I booked the expensive flight with shorter layover because I wanted a more comfortable trip. A few days before the trip, Etihad informed me that the departure time of my first flight will change 7 hours earlier, leading to an 9 hour layover, without giving me another option nor reimbursing me for the extra cost. They didn’t even send me an apologetic email for this change. Regarding the flight experience, I would rate it as mediocre. This is mostly because the pilots of both flights did their best to give us the worst approach to airports that I have ever experienced. In the case of the first flight they had to aboard the landing and took off again right before touching the landing strip. The captain said that it was due to wind conditions but the second time the pilot followed the same direction as the first time to land the plane.

Seat selection screen while online check-in could include free seats to choose from and show the options before we proceed. Currently, it is auto-allocated and there are no options for free seat selections.

Long way to improve. Toilets not working. Bad handling when flight was canceled

The flight delayef for over 2 hours so my route was changed leading to arriving to my destination without my luggage

The ailine departed and arrived late foe every leg of the trip, causing myself and my travel companions to miss every connecting flight. It was very unorganized given theat there was a lot of miscommunication. The flights offered are unrealistic and when you call they assure you that the plane waits for you. I missed an. entire day of my vacation and any entire day of rest back home because of the airline. I do not plan to support the airline again. Thank you

I liked nothing of Ethiopian airlines except the price of the fare.

Food was really not appealing. There was a blocked sink in the toilet. Toilet is cramped and the wall between the 2 toilets are not secured properly.

The use of a domestic carrier without entertainment was disappointing and a let down

Like: It arrived, Dislike: Boarding was a separate corridor with no counter announcements at the passenger waiting area. Very dirty airplane and toilets, food options were terrible - everything even the vegetarian option was a curry spice. Many other passengers using the toilets would not lock the door and kept door partially open during use - flight attendants would not enforce or direct them to lock it and light turns on, no entertainment options at all, other passengers would be singing and not peaceful. Atrocious flight experience.

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

There where no ear phones provided and the food needs to improve.

I have been flew with ET since 2013 and I wish the service can be reach standard airlines as Star Alliance member please ET you need to improve many thing on the services learn from SQ and other member

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.

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Recent return flight deals

22/1Wed
1 stopEtihad Airways
29h 05mRUH-JNB
31/1Fri
1 stopEtihad Airways
28h 30mJNB-RUH
R9 349
22/1Wed
1 stopEtihad Airways
29h 05mRUH-JNB
31/1Fri
1 stopEtihad Airways
16h 20mJNB-RUH
R9 893
18/1Sat
1 stopEthiopian Air
11h 50mRUH-CPT
25/1Sat
1 stopEthiopian Air
11h 20mCPT-RUH
R10 255
18/1Sat
1 stopEthiopian Air
11h 50mRUH-CPT
25/1Sat
1 stopEthiopian Air
11h 20mCPT-RUH
R10 346
8/2Sat
1 stopQatar Airways
19h 40mRUH-CPT
13/2Thu
1 stopQatar Airways
13h 45mCPT-RUH
R10 690
28/1Tue
1 stopQatar Airways
19h 40mRUH-CPT
7/2Fri
1 stopQatar Airways
19h 50mCPT-RUH
R10 817
23/1Thu
2 stops
15h 10mRUH-JNB
31/1Fri
1 stop
16h 20mJNB-RUH
R12 121
23/1Thu
2 stops
15h 10mRUH-JNB
31/1Fri
1 stop
16h 20mJNB-RUH
R12 139
2/1Thu
3 stopsEmirates
17h 30mRUH-JNB
17/1Fri
1 stopEmirates
28h 25mJNB-RUH
R34 081
7/1Tue
3 stopsEmirates
17h 30mRUH-JNB
25/1Sat
1 stopEmirates
12h 10mJNB-RUH
R34 697

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22/1Wed
1 stopEthiopian Air
11h 50mRUH-CPT
R6 197
1/2Sat
1 stopEthiopian Air
11h 50mRUH-CPT
R7 284
2/2Sun
2 stops
41h 20mRUH-CPT
R7 410
1/2Sat
2 stops
32h 35mRUH-CPT
R7 555
23/1Thu
1 stopQatar Airways
19h 40mRUH-CPT
R8 153
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15h 20mRUH-CPT
R8 190
23/1Thu
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18h 20mRUH-CPT
R8 969
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12h 45mRUH-CPT
R10 291
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R15 509
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31h 55mRUH-CPT
R20 293

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21/12Sat
multi-stop
40h 15mRUH-CPT
26/12Thu
multi-stop
19h 00mCPT-RUH
R23 192
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40h 15mRUH-CPT
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R24 315
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multi-stopEthiopian Air
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multi-stopEthiopian Air
11h 20mCPT-RUH
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23/12Mon
multi-stopEmirates
25h 30mRUH-JNB
2/1Thu
multi-stopEmirates
28h 25mJNB-RUH
R28 754
20/12Fri
multi-stopEthiopian Air
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26/12Thu
multi-stopEthiopian Air
16h 15mCPT-RUH
R31 146
22/12Sun
multi-stopEmirates
13h 40mRUH-JNB
2/1Thu
multi-stopEmirates
28h 25mJNB-RUH
R32 324
21/12Sat
multi-stopQatar Airways
19h 55mRUH-CPT
25/12Wed
multi-stopQatar Airways
14h 30mCPT-RUH
R36 708
21/12Sat
multi-stopQatar Airways
13h 10mRUH-CPT
27/12Fri
multi-stopQatar Airways
14h 30mCPT-RUH
R37 288

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