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$535 Find cheap flights from South Africa to Chicago O'Hare Airport

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Flights to O'Hare Intl - Travel Insights & Trends

Get data-powered insights and trends for flights to O'Hare Intl to help you find the cheapest flights, the best time to fly and much more.

What is the cheapest day to fly to Chicago?

The average price of all flights to Chicago O'Hare Intl Airport clicked on KAYAK for each day over the last 12 months.
Based on KAYAK data, the cheapest day to fly to Chicago is Saturday where tickets can be as cheap as $946. On the other hand, the most expensive day to fly is Sunday, where prices are $1,194 on average.

What is the cheapest month to fly to Chicago O'Hare Intl Airport?

To calculate monthly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each month over the last year for flights to Chicago O'Hare Intl Airport, 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 Chicago O'Hare Intl Airport is February, where tickets cost $900 on average for one-way flights. On the other hand, the most expensive months are March and July, where the average cost of tickets from South Africa is $1,272 and $1,244 respectively. For return trips, the best month to travel is February with an average price of $900.

What is the cheapest time of day to fly to Chicago O'Hare Intl Airport?

The average price for all flights to Chicago O'Hare Intl Airport depending on the time of departure, clicked by users on KAYAK in the last 2 weeks.
The cheapest time of day to fly to Chicago O'Hare Intl Airport is generally in the afternoon, when flights cost $971 on average. The most expensive time of day to fly to Chicago O'Hare Intl Airport is generally in the evening, which is peak travel time and where the average cost of a ticket is $1,211.

How far in advance should I book a flight to Chicago O'Hare Intl Airport?

To calculate daily average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each day before departure over the last year for flights to Chicago O'Hare Intl Airport, 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 0 weeks before departure. For the absolute cheapest price, our data suggests you should book 89 days before departure.

How long is the flight to Chicago O'Hare Intl Airport?

The duration of your flight to Chicago depends on your departure and arrival airports. Obviously any flights that include a layover will also be longer. The most popular routes to Chicago on KAYAK are from Johannesburg, which takes 22h 20m, Cape Town, which takes 24h 05m, and Durban, which takes 30h 05m.

How many direct flights to Chicago O'Hare Intl Airport are there each day?

There are around 1,312 direct flights from within South Africa to Chicago O'Hare Intl Airport every day. Most flights depart in the morning, with 6:00 am the most common departure time and 50% of flights departing in the morning.

How many direct flights to Chicago O'Hare Intl Airport are there each week?

Each week there are around 9,182 direct flights from within South Africa to Chicago O'Hare Intl Airport. The most common day for departures is Friday, with 15% of flights taking off on this day.

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February

High season

June

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$535
Best time to beat the crowds with an average 17% drop in price.
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FAQs - booking Chicago O'Hare Airport flights

  • How far is Chicago O'Hare Airport from central Chicago?

    There are 16 miles between Chicago city center and Chicago O'Hare Airport.

  • How does KAYAK find such low prices on flights to Chicago O'Hare Airport?

    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 Chicago O'Hare Airport.

  • How does KAYAK's flight Price Forecast tool help me choose the right time to buy my flight ticket to Chicago O'Hare Airport?

    KAYAK’s flight Price Forecast tool uses historical data to determine whether the price for a flight to Chicago O'Hare Airport is likely to change within 7 days, so travelers know whether to wait or book now.

  • What is the Hacker Fare option on flights to Chicago O'Hare Airport?

    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 Chicago O'Hare Airport 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 Chicago O'Hare Airport?

    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 Chicago O'Hare Airport up to 3 days before/after your preferred dates. You can then pick the flights that suit you best.

  • Which airline offers the most flights to Chicago O'Hare Intl Airport?

    Of the 12 airlines that fly to Chicago O'Hare Intl Airport, American Airlines offers the most flights, with around 4,324 per week, followed by United Airlines with 3,437 flights per week.

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Nonstop departures

South Africa to Chicago O'Hare Intl

Monday

ANA, Aer Lingus, Aeromexico, +77 more

ANA, Aer Lingus, +78 more

Tuesday

ANA, Aer Lingus, Aerolineas Argentinas, +77 more

ANA, Aer Lingus, +78 more

Wednesday

ANA, Aer Lingus, Aeromexico, +77 more

ANA, Aer Lingus, +78 more

Thursday

ANA, Aer Lingus, Aeromexico, +76 more

ANA, Aer Lingus, +77 more

Friday

ANA, Aer Lingus, Aerolineas Argentinas, +78 more

ANA, Aer Lingus, +79 more

Saturday

ANA, Aer Lingus, Aerolineas Argentinas, +77 more

ANA, Aer Lingus, +78 more

Sunday

ANA, Aer Lingus, Aerolineas Argentinas, +77 more

ANA, Aer Lingus, +78 more

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Nonstop returns

Chicago O'Hare Intl to South Africa

Monday

ANA, Aer Lingus, Aeromexico, +77 more

ANA, Aer Lingus, +78 more

Tuesday

ANA, Aer Lingus, Aerolineas Argentinas, +77 more

ANA, Aer Lingus, +78 more

Wednesday

ANA, Aer Lingus, Aeromexico, +77 more

ANA, Aer Lingus, +78 more

Thursday

ANA, Aer Lingus, Aeromexico, +76 more

ANA, Aer Lingus, +77 more

Friday

ANA, Aer Lingus, Aerolineas Argentinas, +78 more

ANA, Aer Lingus, +79 more

Saturday

ANA, Aer Lingus, Aerolineas Argentinas, +77 more

ANA, Aer Lingus, +78 more

Sunday

ANA, Aer Lingus, Aerolineas Argentinas, +77 more

ANA, Aer Lingus, +78 more

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Top 5 airlines serving from South Africa to O'Hare Intl

 
See real verified KAYAK customer reviews for airlines flying to Chicago. Airline scores are aggregated from all reviews left by passengers on KAYAK after flying with an airline from South Africa to Chicago. 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 O'Hare Intl? 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.
8.0
DeltaOverall score based on 10673 reviews
8.6Crew
7.4Food
8.0Entertainment
7.9Comfort
8.2Boarding
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5-hour delay due to storms in Tanoa and airspace restricted by Miami traffic controllers.

6.0 GoodGary, May 2024MSP - TPA
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5-hour delay due to storms in Tanoa and airspace restricted by Miami traffic controllers.

A regional sized plane was used for a cross country flight with no overhead bin space. I had to "pink check" my laptop and my medications. I was NOT pleased!!!!

Absolutely nothing flight was cancelled and delayed for 2 days. Barely a heads up I want a full refund

The plane from SNA wouldn’t start after 5 tries. The team gave me an option of flying direct from LAX and giving me a Lyft ride there! Perfect!

Best airline! Always friendly and welcoming. Skyclub was great and loved the fast free wifi on board. I also love that you can pre-order your meal on the app!

Atlanta boarding crew at gate were filled with arrogance and were disrespectful. In flight crew showed indifference to the needs of passengers. This is about the flight from ATL to BDL.

The boarding was horrible. You couldn’t hear the announcements at all. Probably because there is so much in the area for businesses. They need a louder PA system. Other than that it was a good Delta experience.

Boarding was somewhat chaotic. Unable to evaluate crew or food/drink because captain kept them seated due to turbulence. Have no idea if entertainment was offered.

The gate area was incredibly short staffed, with one representative manning 4-5 flights, which caused a 3 hr delay in boarding even though the plane was all ready to leave. Other flights also were delayed because of this. The flight crew was awesome and I feel bad for the only gate worker on call, but Delta needs to hire more employees.

Very frustrated with boarding gate crew. She announced the plane was small and they would be limiting us to one item to carry on. Not a problem for me as I understand the tiny planes have limited space!! Not the case here! It was a rather large plane and had plenty of room for bags! So because I don’t want to be one of “those people” who ignores the request to check a carry on I did so asking if I would be able to pick it up at the bottom of the ramp on arrival in Knoxville to which she responded “yes”! Then I watched as every other passenger held onto their 2 items and boarded!! Then when we arrived in Knoxville our 2 carry ons had been put with all the other luggage and we had to go to baggage pick up and wait for all the big checked bags to come off the carousel! So she lied!! Frustrating. Next time I won’t be so nice!

Delayed departure. Delayed after landing pulling into gate. Delay due to sky bridge malfunction

Great. Loved that there was WiFi on flight to keep in touch and excellent service of beverages and snacks.

Flew business class. Everything was excellent. No issues at all. Not very many “good” movies to choose from. But lots of mediocre ones

Business class is great. New airplane, very comfortable, better than some of the major airlines I am used to

Terrible. Flight was cancelled due to the weather in the east and sout east(florida). Did not get any compesation of any kind. According to them, it was not under their control so I lost all the money paid for the 2 fairs from Raleigh, NC to Orlando, Fl.

great flight. Pilot was communicative, flight attendants were excellent. Really nice experience except my tv didn’t work.

The best experience that I have had traveling with JetBlue!

Overall, the flight was better than the flight I took to go to Florida, which had a bunch of problems. The crew is really nice and the plane was new so it had a small problem when we were on the runway, but the flight itself was great. They even made some time back up, which is always a good thing.

Crew was just ok. Flight was packed. On a 3/4 hour flight I would hope they would come around more than once to see if you needed anything further. Not very attentive.

There were multiple delays but JetBlue tried to make the boarding and departure process as quick and efficient as possible. The crew was as detached from reality as could be, meaning: not very friendly and just doing things by the numbers.

It was good! Appreciated that it was very on schedule so it made the connecting flight less stressful

I was told we'd have a hot breakfast option in first class, so I chose not get a hot breakfast. It was a very strange meal, but the fresh fruit was very good quality. Service was excellent from ORD to ELP. No service from MBS to ORD, not even water. However, when flying American from FNT to ORD, which is a shorter flight, they at least pass out snacks and offer water.

We were delayed an hour leaving Munich (No fault of the crew). They kept us posted on the status so we knew what was going on, but as a result we missed our connection in Chicago and the communication on connecting flights was pretty poor as we disembarked. It was already stressful and some of that could have been reduced by better communications about where to find transfers, etc.

One problem, but a serious one - the plane is built with electric windows that tint dark to reduce light. Sitting next to the window is VERY UNCOMFORTABLE as it emits so much HEAT in the face when tinted.

The delays (5 hrs) were a comedy of errors, and the multiple safety issues encountered were very concerning.

Wifi wasn't working on one of the UA flights after boarding.

The flight was delayed instead of leaving at 11 it left at 12.20

United WiFi is consistently unusable (it can take 10 mins to load a single web page). If you need Wifi to do work, be prepared to lose half a day of productivity.

Crew was not very helpful. They forgot to serve me coffee and had to wait for a long time.It looked as if they were not very happy with what they were doing.

Good movies, iffy pay WiFi, food ok- on time though and that was great!

I was a good, but long trip. The airline did a good job. I would use them again.

Choice of Vegetarian Food in Economy class needs overhaul improvement

The gate was changed at the very last moment and no one informed us. The flight was one hour late and the screen broken, the remote control not working. One toilet was out of order . the other toilets were also not totally functioning, because the washbasin was plugged and the water couldn't flow away.

The food could be better, the beef was quite tough. The crew were friendly and helpful on this flight, which has not being my experience on other Ethiopian flights.

It is just ok, the sits are very uncomfortable, the temperature too low and there weren’t blankets. The food is mediocre and there are no screens to watch movies.

Seat in front of my wife was broken so it reclined further than normal and without having to push the recline button so my wife had absolutely no room the entire 17 hour flight. My seat was broken and wouldn't recline at all. Also.. my tray table was sticky and dirty right away before I even used it. Also...the floor in the back of the plane from our row of seats on back was totally soaked and both times we landed water came rushing out of the food/servant area like a flood onto the same already wet carpet. It got everything wet that was placed around our feet...including our shoes and socks.

it was a nice tripe but they need to work on the serving of soda,they should be abled to serve cain soda not on cup.At least each passenger should be entitled to one cain of soda not serving on cup.thanks.

On my return flight the TV did not work the entire flight! They knew it wasn’t working but they let me sit there. The guy sitting nièce to me told me he was ok the previous flight and it wasn’t working. This is business class by the way!

Same but worse than international. The inter African flights are worse.

Entertainment was very poor. Couldn’t watch anything. Ear pieces were the wrong type .

Boarding good. Seats uncomfortable when lie flat. Food was awful. Tasted stale and chicken was dry. No live tv or flight map. Had to pay for internet.

Poor technical details on this plane. 1) There was no WiFi on an 8 hour long-haul flight. So no work could be done. That's below the standard expected for airlines these days. 2) The power outlet at my seat was busted and not working. 3) The headphone jack was loose and I had to keep adjusting my headphones to get good reception, or when it slipped out. - The flight was delayed to due mechanics. Sometimes this can't be avoided, I understand, and it's a big inconvenience to arrive that much later when traveling across time zones (then arriving at 4am from the prior time zone). - Also unique to this flight, the northern lights were visible on the right side of the aircraft, but I only found out after we landed (b/c again no wifi). I understand there are considerations about people being out of their seats to look, but I feel extremely disappointed and resentful that I wasn't told so that I could have a chance to look at this probably once-in-a-lifetime cosmic event from a view in the sky. - Flight crew was otherwise friendly and helpful.

I would have preferred something lighter for the second meal. Maybe a small sandwich .

They cancelled our flight the morning of departure at 4:30am.

Coach seats are too tight. Seem designed for small people. Food different but OK. Staff helpful.

my original flight was cancelled the previous day, and i was rescheduled onto this flight, which left much earlier in the morning, impacting my previous evening and requiring me to get up much earlier in the morning to get to the airport online. This practice happens way way way too much, and it seems on every airline, though AA is probably the worst.

Spending 10 hours on a flight with no video or wifi access due to issues per stewardess was not enjoyable nor acceptable. Will follow up directly with the airline as well

I really did not like being ordered to pull my shade down by the attendants. One of them was very rude to me about it, standing there until I closed it like I was a child brusquely reaching across me to close an adjoining one. They claim it was so people who wanted to could sleep. It’s a 10:30am flight not a red eye. Closing your shade or leaving it up for natural light should be a choice. Ruined my flight!

My baggage did not arrived with me. Took 3 days to get it after so may calls and follow up

The crew was very attentive and kept busy serving a variety of treats!

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Recent round-trip flight deals

 
These are the cheapest round-trip flights to Chicago found on KAYAK in the last 72 hours.
7/16Tue
2 stopsDelta
30h 34mJNB-ORD
8/6Tue
1 stopDelta
30h 00mORD-JNB
$937
5/19Sun
1 stopKLM
22h 20mJNB-ORD
5/26Sun
2 stopsKLM
24h 18mORD-JNB
$946
6/26Wed
2 stopsEthiopian Air
30h 45mJNB-ORD
9/7Sat
1 stopEthiopian Air
19h 50mORD-JNB
$979
6/26Wed
2 stopsEthiopian Air
30h 45mJNB-ORD
9/7Sat
1 stopEthiopian Air
26h 45mORD-JNB
$983
7/2Tue
2 stopsBritish Airways
29h 00mJNB-ORD
7/28Sun
2 stopsBritish Airways
32h 04mORD-JNB
$1,057
7/17Wed
1 stopBritish Airways
22h 40mJNB-ORD
9/30Mon
1 stopBritish Airways
29h 10mORD-JNB
$1,065
7/4Thu
2 stopsUnited Airlines
25h 50mCPT-ORD
11/11Mon
2 stopsUnited Airlines
23h 10mORD-CPT
$1,118
6/4Tue
2 stopsUnited Airlines
32h 00mCPT-ORD
11/12Tue
2 stopsUnited Airlines
36h 35mORD-CPT
$1,125
6/7Fri
2 stopsAmerican Airlines
32h 29mJNB-ORD
6/14Fri
2 stopsAmerican Airlines
32h 00mORD-JNB
$1,230
7/14Sun
2 stopsAmerican Airlines
27h 50mCPT-ORD
8/3Sat
2 stopsAmerican Airlines
40h 37mORD-CPT
$1,238

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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 Chicago found on KAYAK in the last 72 hours.
6/3Mon
2 stops
32h 41mJNB-ORD
$535
6/3Mon
3 stops
38h 16mJNB-ORD
$608
11/1Fri
2 stops
34h 10mCPT-ORD
$612
11/1Fri
1 stopQatar Airways
34h 35mCPT-ORD
$634
6/4Tue
2 stopsEthiopian Air
25h 15mCPT-ORD
$710
6/4Tue
2 stopsEthiopian Air
25h 15mCPT-ORD
$711
6/3Mon
1 stopBritish Airways
23h 40mJNB-ORD
$770
8/3Sat
2 stopsBritish Airways
25h 40mJNB-ORD
$787
6/4Tue
1 stopJetBlue
33h 25mCPT-ORD
$878
8/12Mon
1 stopUnited Airlines
21h 45mCPT-ORD
$2,703

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Last minute flights to O'Hare Intl

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 Chicago that are departing in the next 10 days.
5/17Fri
multi-stopDelta
26h 17mCPT-ORD
5/31Fri
multi-stopDelta
38h 05mORD-CPT
$939
5/17Fri
multi-stopDelta
26h 17mCPT-ORD
5/31Fri
multi-stopDelta
38h 05mORD-CPT
$940
5/19Sun
multi-stopKLM
22h 20mJNB-ORD
5/26Sun
multi-stopKLM
22h 00mORD-JNB
$946
5/17Fri
multi-stopUnited Airlines
29h 03mCPT-ORD
5/31Fri
multi-stopUnited Airlines
37h 50mORD-CPT
$955
5/19Sun
multi-stop
22h 20mJNB-ORD
6/3Mon
multi-stop
32h 25mORD-JNB
$958
5/19Sun
multi-stop
22h 20mJNB-ORD
6/3Mon
multi-stop
32h 25mORD-JNB
$959
5/19Sun
multi-stopKLM
22h 20mJNB-ORD
6/3Mon
multi-stopKLM
24h 18mORD-JNB
$1,029
5/19Sun
multi-stopKLM
26h 02mJNB-ORD
5/26Sun
multi-stopKLM
24h 18mORD-JNB
$1,042
5/19Sun
multi-stopEthiopian Air
35h 05mJNB-ORD
5/26Sun
multi-stopEthiopian Air
40h 15mORD-JNB
$2,046
5/19Sun
multi-stopEthiopian Air
35h 05mJNB-ORD
6/3Mon
multi-stopEthiopian Air
42h 20mORD-JNB
$2,293

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Flights to Chicago O'Hare Airport

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Chicago O'Hare Airport (ORD)United States

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