Prices Of Flights From Bangkok To Cape Town
Written by zoe on October 24th, 2009 in Travel Tips.
Basically there are two airports that you can use from Bangkok to Cape town; 1. Don Muang (DMK) route or 2. the Bangkok direct (BKK) 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.
Ethopian and Kenyan Airways have the cheapest rates which are about half of the rates being charged by the other airlines.
The Ethiopian airways flight leaves Bangkok at 01:40 and flies to its home country Addis Ababa. It gets there at 06:35 in the morning and leaves for Johannesburg at 08:50 and gets there at 13:15. From there it leaves at 15:00 and heads straight for Cape Town where it arrives at 17:10 the next 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 the second cheapest flight from Bangkok to Cape Town. It departs from Bangkok at 20.30 hrs headed for dubai . You might need a place to sleep in Dubai because it gets there at 23:35 and leaves for Johannesburg at 04:40 the following 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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