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AED 1,605 Find cheap flights from South Africa to Abu Dhabi

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Flights to Abu Dhabi - Travel Insights & Trends

Get data-powered insights and trends into flights to Abu Dhabi to help you find the cheapest flights, the best time to fly and much more.

What is the cheapest day to fly to Abu Dhabi?

The average price of all flights to Abu Dhabi clicked on KAYAK for each day over the last 12 months.
Based on KAYAK data, the cheapest day to fly to Abu Dhabi is Wednesday where tickets can be as cheap as AED 2,475. On the other hand, the most expensive day to fly is Sunday, where prices are AED 2,843 on average.

What is the cheapest month to fly to Abu Dhabi?

To calculate monthly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each month over the last year for flights to Abu Dhabi, removes the top 0.1% to account for outliers, and then takes the median of all values for each month.
The cheapest month for flights to Abu Dhabi is February, where tickets cost AED 1,568 on average for one-way flights. On the other hand, the most expensive months are December and June, where the average cost of tickets from South Africa is AED 2,828 and AED 2,383 respectively. For return trips, the best month to travel is February with an average price of AED 1,568.

What is the cheapest time of day to fly to Abu Dhabi?

The average price for all flights to Abu Dhabi depending on the time of departure, clicked by users on KAYAK in the last 2 weeks.
The cheapest time of day to fly to Abu Dhabi is generally in the afternoon, when flights cost AED 2,520 on average. The most expensive time of day to fly to Abu Dhabi is generally at night, which is peak travel time and where the average cost of a ticket is AED 2,767.

What is a good deal for flights to Abu Dhabi?

If you’re looking for cheap airfare to Abu Dhabi, 25% of our users found tickets to Abu Dhabi for the following prices or less: From Johannesburg OR Tambo Airport AED 1,355 one-way - AED 2,326 return.

How far in advance should I book a flight to Abu Dhabi?

To calculate daily average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each day before departure over the last year for flights to Abu Dhabi, removes the top 0.1% to account for outliers, and then takes the average of all the values for each month.
To get a below average price, you should book around 1 week before departure. For the absolute cheapest price, our data suggests you should book 21 days before departure.

How long is the flight to Abu Dhabi?

The duration of your flight to Abu Dhabi depends on your departure and arrival airports. Obviously any flights that include a layover will also be longer. The most popular routes to Abu Dhabi on KAYAK are from Johannesburg, which takes 7h 55m, Durban, which takes 8h 20m, and Cape Town, which takes 9h 25m.

How many long-haul flights are there to Abu Dhabi each week?

There are not any medium-haul (3-6 hour flight duration) or short-haul (up to 3 hour flight duration) flights to Abu Dhabi. Instead, there are 10 long-haul flights (6-12 hour flight duration), with the most arriving from Johannesburg OR Tambo Airport.

Good to know

Low season

July

High season

December

Cheapest flight

AED 1,605
Best time to beat the crowds but there is an average 16% increase in price.
Most popular time to fly (31% more expensive on average)
Flight from Johannesburg to Abu Dhabi

FAQs - booking Abu Dhabi flights

  • How far is Abu Dhabi from central Abu Dhabi?

    The distance between Abu Dhabi and the city centre of Abu Dhabi is 28 km.

  • What is the name of Abu Dhabi’s airport?

    When flying to Abu Dhabi, you'll arrive at Abu Dhabi (AUH). The airport is also known as Zayed Intl.

  • How many cities have direct flights to Abu Dhabi?

    From South Africa, there are direct flights to Abu Dhabi from 1 city. This city is Johannesburg OR Tambo Airport and there are 10 direct flights each week.

  • How much is a flight to Abu Dhabi?

    On average, a flight to Abu Dhabi costs AED 2,113. The cheapest price found on KAYAK in the last 2 weeks cost AED 1,346 and departed from Johannesburg OR Tambo Airport.

  • How does KAYAK find such low prices on flights to Abu Dhabi?

    KAYAK is a travel search engine. That means we look across the web to find the best prices we can find for our users. With over 2 billion flight queries processed yearly, we are able to display a variety of prices and options on flights to Abu Dhabi.

  • How does KAYAK's flight Price Forecast tool help me choose the right time to buy my flight ticket to Abu Dhabi?

    KAYAK’s flight Price Forecast tool uses historical data to determine whether the price for a flight to Abu Dhabi is likely to change within 7 days, so travellers know whether to wait or book now.

  • What is the Hacker Fare option on flights to Abu Dhabi?

    Hacker Fares allow you to combine one-way tickets in order to save you money over a traditional round-trip ticket. You could then fly to Abu Dhabi with an airline and back with another airline.

  • What is KAYAK's "flexible dates" feature and why should I care when looking for a flight to Abu Dhabi?

    Sometimes travel dates aren't set in stone. If your preferred travel dates have some wiggle room, flexible dates will show you all the options when flying to Abu Dhabi up to 3 days before/after your preferred dates. You can then pick the flights that suit you best.

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Prefer to fly direct to Abu Dhabi Zayed Intl?

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Direct departures

South Africa to Abu Dhabi Zayed Intl

Monday

ANA, Aegean Airlines, Aer Lingus, +51 more

ANA, Aegean Airlines, +52 more

Tuesday

ANA, Aegean Airlines, Aer Lingus, +51 more

ANA, Aegean Airlines, +52 more

Wednesday

ANA, Aegean Airlines, Aer Lingus, +50 more

ANA, Aegean Airlines, +51 more

Thursday

ANA, Aegean Airlines, Aer Lingus, +52 more

ANA, Aegean Airlines, +53 more

Friday

ANA, Aegean Airlines, Aer Lingus, +51 more

ANA, Aegean Airlines, +52 more

Saturday

ANA, Aegean Airlines, Aer Lingus, +52 more

ANA, Aegean Airlines, +53 more

Sunday

ANA, Aegean Airlines, Aer Lingus, +49 more

ANA, Aegean Airlines, +50 more

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Direct returns

Abu Dhabi Zayed Intl to South Africa

Monday

ANA, Aegean Airlines, Aer Lingus, +51 more

ANA, Aegean Airlines, +52 more

Tuesday

ANA, Aegean Airlines, Aer Lingus, +51 more

ANA, Aegean Airlines, +52 more

Wednesday

ANA, Aegean Airlines, Aer Lingus, +50 more

ANA, Aegean Airlines, +51 more

Thursday

ANA, Aegean Airlines, Aer Lingus, +52 more

ANA, Aegean Airlines, +53 more

Friday

ANA, Aegean Airlines, Aer Lingus, +51 more

ANA, Aegean Airlines, +52 more

Saturday

ANA, Aegean Airlines, Aer Lingus, +52 more

ANA, Aegean Airlines, +53 more

Sunday

ANA, Aegean Airlines, Aer Lingus, +49 more

ANA, Aegean Airlines, +50 more

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Top 3 airlines serving from South Africa to Abu Dhabi

 
See real verified KAYAK customer reviews for airlines flying to Abu Dhabi. Airline scores are aggregated from all reviews left by passengers on KAYAK after flying with an airline from South Africa to Abu Dhabi. KAYAK doesn’t show reviews that are older than 5 years. Learn how KAYAK collects reviews.
Need help choosing which airline to fly with to Abu Dhabi? 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.
8.1
EmiratesOverall score based on 4070 reviews
8.3crew
8.3entertainment
8.2boarding
7.9food
8.1comfort
Airline reviews

Flights were both delayed. No luggage on arrival for the whole plane and no contact since submitting a PIR.

2.0 MediocreSean, Apr 2024LGW - DXB
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Flights were both delayed. No luggage on arrival for the whole plane and no contact since submitting a PIR.

Flight got canceled without any prior information and it caused lot of trouble

Nice selection of movies and TV shows. Plane was generally nice, not the newest but nice nonetheless. However, Emirates should have cancelled the flight, as hardly any flights flew out of Dubai at the time. Flight delays and cancellation was poorly communicated and passengers were left guessing and to their own devices on what to do. Connection desks were staffed too thinly, there was one desk with more than a hundred clients and just one poor lady. When I had my flights rebooked, I was told meal vouchers can be scanned using my boarding pass, nope. Was told to comeback for my hotel voucher, none. Had to book my hotel voucher the usual way through Dubai Connect despite having been told twice to comeback to the counters twice.

On the Dubai-Gatwick flight the only meal options were Beef or Chicken. No vegetarian option. This was a surprise. I would usually order in advance but did not this time. Would have been good to know that a vegetarian meal is not available as a standard meal. Thankfully it was just me travelling, but if I’d had my kids with me that would have been a big problem for us.

My Experience was ok. But the gentleman next to me vaped the whole flight and the attendants did nothing, whether they were aware, I’m not sure.

Flight from Dubai to Zagreb very bad cabin crew. Bad food

Checkin and boarding staff at Delhi Airport is not cooperative with passengers Their behavior very humiliating . They don’t allow Lap top bag and Ladies’ purse/vanity bag which most of the airlines allow besides cabin baggage and check in baggages. They try to charge extra payment on the pretext of small variations which normally other Airlines staff don’t do. Airline staff should be courteous & cooperative but check in staff of Emirates Airline at Delhi was not so at all.

Absolutely terrible delays for 3 hours changed seats after we paid an upgrade on both legs. It appears it’s up to us to request a refund after they down graded our seat. Never again !!

This airline is one of the best Ihave travel around the world well use them again in the future the food was higher quality plus your personal aboard communicated in many languages on our flights 13 this was amazing 👏 🤩 😀 👌 😄 thank you

Good but needs to improve cleanliness Coffee serve cold Needs to raise standard serving food Otherwise good

I had first class service from them. A little late taking off, but no major problem

The made us waiting and held our passports and boarding pass making us miss our flights

My seat that I booked over a year ago and some other passenger was sitting in it. They said they could not walk and they would not move. I was with my young kid and the crew did nothing to accommodate that. Just disappointed that the airline accepts that excuse from a passenger.

They shld provide food. Between food they are giving 10 hours gap which is toooo much

Was required to print a boarding pass, which I'd prefer to avoid. Seat (economy x) was comfortable, service was excellent.

I had never seen any cabin crews behaving like that. They are not at all professionally fit for this job

The overall experience for the price we paid was mediocre. Nothing outstanding! Check in process was standard. Flight attendants could have been more well mannered. I found it rude when the attendant nudged me with the snack box to grab my attention when not looking. She could have said ,’excuse me’ instead. My son’s in flight entertainment was not working. The food was not great either. The snack options were not so great with kids in mind. Overall, might not travel qatar again.

Qatar is the worst airline experience I had in a long time traveling business class, I believe the hype is all paid for by bloggers.

need to improve management and air hostess services. Rest of it’s OK.

Qatar screwed up by delaying our onward journey for refueling, which resulted in missing our connecting flight to India. the airport qater staff at Doha, herded us like cattle in a very incohesive and uncoordinated way. We were then given 2 options: either catch our original flight the Next day ( After 24.hrs) or catch 2 flights instead , to goto our destination in India. All this, for paying a premium for Qatar.

1st time with. Etihad Airways and it was amazing from check in to crew. Great flight.

It has been a couple of years since I flew with Etihad last, after having a unpleasant experience with them coming out of the pandemic. I can say that the experience has uplifted, but I can’t really rate the service. At Barcelona airport the service was great, with their dedicated Etihad staff very helpful. The onboard experience wasn’t great, not very personalised and it really makes sense why Etihad doesn’t feature in the top 10 2023 Skytrax awards. The crew just seemed to be inattentive and almost absent from the cabin. I felt that I had to keep getting their attention. Even after I’d finished my meal, an hour went by before I had to call them to clear the tray/plate etc.

Crew were very polite and quicker in service. Excellent cooling, comfortable seats and tasty food served

In my opinion, Etihad Airways is a first rate airline except for one important element. On the day before my return flights, when I chose my seats on the Etihad website I was charged an additional $55 (US) in order to sit on the aisle. I was not at all happy about this additional "hidden" charge and I felt cheated.

The staff was kind and polite, but it was very very hot and no ways to have some fresh air.it would be also be nice to have more time to sleep, since it was a night flight

My wife and I were upgraded to Business Class on our Dublin-Abu-Dhabi flight on the 22nd of January. Being served by "Mariyan" (not too sure about her name, she's from Tunisia) was the real highlight of our flight, she deserves to be working with etihad. We are looking forward to the next upgrade as we are flying back to Dublin on February 01, 2024. If I am not mistaken we have just reached GOLD status as Etihad Guests.

Eine Toilette der Business Class war gesperrt und somit nicht benutzbar.

One thing is very important is you people not giving seat arrangement together to couple, senior citizen. You have to take care of senior citizen. Do not look about money. Money is not important everywhere. Make relationship strong is very very important. I like Etiyad air line out of all air line. Food was hot and delicious. Air hostess gave very good service, nice attitude, very good behaviour. I gave 10 out of 10 marks. Thanks Jivraj

I WOULD ADVISE NOT TO BOOK YOUR FLIGHT ON KAYAK. THEY SHOW BETTER FARES AND AFTER I BOOKED MINE, I FIND OUT THAT IT DID NOT INCLUDE LUGGAGE. i HAD TO PAY $800 TO CHECK IN MY BAGS.

Entertainment did not work from flight from Abu Dhabi to Kolkata. Emirates has a much better flight in that sector.

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Recent return flight deals

 
These are the cheapest return flights to Abu Dhabi found on KAYAK in the last 72 hours.
7/5Tue
1 stopQatar Airways
12h 50mJNB-AUH
14/5Tue
1 stopQatar Airways
12h 25mAUH-JNB
AED 1,976
6/5Mon
1 stopEgypt Air
28h 20mJNB-AUH
2/6Sun
1 stopEgypt Air
20h 35mAUH-JNB
AED 2,031
24/5Fri
1 stop
11h 45mCPT-AUH
30/5Thu
1 stop
12h 20mAUH-CPT
AED 2,031
7/5Tue
1 stop
18h 50mJNB-AUH
14/5Tue
2 stops
25h 00mAUH-JNB
AED 2,266
6/5Mon
directEtihad Airways
7h 55mJNB-AUH
1/6Sat
directEtihad Airways
8h 15mAUH-JNB
AED 2,725
13/5Mon
directEtihad Airways
7h 55mJNB-AUH
16/5Thu
directEtihad Airways
8h 15mAUH-JNB
AED 2,886
13/5Mon
1 stopSWISS
21h 35mJNB-AUH
16/5Thu
1 stopSWISS
32h 20mAUH-JNB
AED 3,463
13/5Mon
1 stopSWISS
21h 35mJNB-AUH
16/5Thu
1 stopSWISS
32h 20mAUH-JNB
AED 3,760
13/5Mon
2 stopsLufthansa
22h 30mJNB-AUH
16/5Thu
2 stopsLufthansa
31h 50mAUH-JNB
AED 4,256
13/5Mon
2 stopsLufthansa
22h 30mJNB-AUH
16/5Thu
1 stopLufthansa
32h 10mAUH-JNB
AED 4,322

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Recent one-way flight deals

 
Only flying one-way? Below are some of the best deals for one-way flights to Abu Dhabi found on KAYAK in the last 72 hours.
17/6Mon
3 stops
18h 45mJNB-AUH
AED 1,605
17/6Mon
1 stopQatar Airways
12h 10mJNB-AUH
AED 1,664
16/6Sun
3 stops
32h 05mCPT-AUH
AED 1,711
16/6Sun
3 stops
30h 45mCPT-AUH
AED 1,715
17/6Mon
2 stops
17h 20mJNB-AUH
AED 1,946
16/6Sun
1 stop
20h 55mJNB-AUH
AED 2,045
16/6Sun
2 stops
20h 10mCPT-AUH
AED 2,104
16/6Sun
2 stops
16h 20mCPT-AUH
AED 2,273
16/6Sun
3 stops
18h 00mJNB-AUH
AED 2,703
17/6Mon
directEtihad Airways
7h 55mJNB-AUH
AED 2,710

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Last minute flights to Abu Dhabi

Last minute flight, train and bus deals

 
These last-minute flight deals are the cheapest flights found on KAYAK in the last 72 hours for flights to Abu Dhabi that are departing in the next 10 days.
29/4Mon
multi-stop
25h 00mJNB-AUH
4/5Sat
direct
8h 15mAUH-JNB
AED 10,668
29/4Mon
multi-stop
25h 00mJNB-AUH
5/5Sun
multi-stop
16h 40mAUH-JNB
AED 10,969
29/4Mon
multi-stop
25h 00mJNB-AUH
4/5Sat
multi-stop
16h 40mAUH-JNB
AED 11,105
29/4Mon
multi-stop
25h 00mJNB-AUH
4/5Sat
multi-stop
19h 20mAUH-JNB
AED 11,329
29/4Mon
multi-stop
25h 00mJNB-AUH
3/5Fri
multi-stop
26h 05mAUH-JNB
AED 12,599
29/4Mon
multi-stop
25h 00mJNB-AUH
5/5Sun
multi-stop
26h 20mAUH-JNB
AED 13,242

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Flights to Abu Dhabi

Destination:

Abu Dhabi (AUH)United Arab Emirates

Return flight deals:

Abu Dhabi - South Africa

Cabin classes:

AED 2,255

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