Cheapest airlines in South Africa (2026)

Code	Airline	% Searches	% being the cheapest
FA	FlySafair	24.4	60.0
4Z	Air Link	44.3	44.4
BP	Air Botswana	3.2	35.6
DT	TAAG Angola Airlines	3.1	35.6
FN	Royal Air Maroc Express	4.1	31.8
TC	Air Tanzania Corporation	4.4	27.8
QF	Qantas	1.6	27.0
TM	LAM Mozambique Airlines	1.6	25.5
DE	Condor	5.7	23.9
AA	American Airlines	1.1	22.9
WB	RwandAir	11.9	21.4
MK	Air Mauritius	2.2	20.5
SQ	Singapore	10.3	20.3
UR	Uganda National Airlines Company	1.2	19.1
QR	Qatar Airways	51.7	18.9
SA	South African Airways	34.2	18.1
KQ	Kenya Airways	28.6	15.4
ET	Ethiopian Airlines	45.4	15.1
EY	Etihad Airways	20.4	13.7
CA	Air China	1.3	13.1
TK	Turkish	33.2	12.9
UA	United Airlines	2.9	12.7
EK	Emirates	49.6	11.3
BA	British Airways	19.5	10.6
GE	Trans Asia Airways	10.0	9.8
KL	KLM	41.2	9.7
LA	LATAM Airlines	1.2	6.5
CX	Cathay	6.9	5.7
LH	Lufthansa	31.9	3.8
5Z	CemAir	16.5	3.8
X1	X1 Air	3.9	3.7
MS	EgyptAir	10.5	3.0
AF	Air France	37.8	2.9
VS	Virgin Atlantic	4.9	2.3
LX	Swiss	24.9	1.2
KP	Asky Airlines	1.7	0.4
H1	Hahn Air Systems	7.2	0.1
SN	Brussels Airlines	7.2	0.0
OS	Austrian	6.5	0.0
MH	Malaysia	4.8	0.0
WY	Oman Air	3.8	0.0
B6	JetBlue	2.5	0.0
W2	Flexflight	2.0	0.0
SK	SAS	1.5	0.0
P0	Proflight Zambia	1.2	0.0
KU	Kuwait Airways	1.1	0.0

% Searches column is calculated based on the number of searches in which the airline has offered flights versus the total number of searches.

% being the cheapest column is obtained from the number of searches in which the airline offered the cheapest flight versus the number of searches in which the airline offered flights.

The ranking is updated in real time and takes into account data from the last year from searches done in Trabber for flights from South Africa.

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