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$555 Find cheap flights from South Africa to Los Angeles

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Flights to Los Angeles - Travel Insights & Trends

Get data-powered insights and trends for flights to Los Angeles to help you find the cheapest flights, the best time to fly and much more.

What is the cheapest day to fly to Los Angeles?

The average price of all flights to Los Angeles clicked on KAYAK for each day over the last 12 months.
Based on KAYAK data, the cheapest day to fly to Los Angeles is Tuesday where tickets can be as cheap as $987. On the other hand, the most expensive day to fly is Friday, where prices are $1,215 on average.

What is the cheapest month to fly to Los Angeles?

To calculate monthly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each month over the last year for flights to Los Angeles, 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 Los Angeles is October, where tickets cost $870 on average for one-way flights. On the other hand, the most expensive months are July and August, where the average cost of tickets from South Africa is $1,155 and $1,131 respectively. For return trips, the best month to travel is October with an average price of $870.

What is the cheapest time of day to fly to Los Angeles?

The average price for all flights to Los Angeles depending on the time of departure, clicked by users on KAYAK in the last 2 weeks.
The cheapest time of day to fly to Los Angeles is generally in the morning, when flights cost $870 on average. The most expensive time of day to fly to Los Angeles is generally at night, which is peak travel time and where the average cost of a ticket is $1,086.

How far in advance should I book a flight to Los Angeles?

To calculate daily average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each day before departure over the last year for flights to Los Angeles, 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 81 days before departure.

How long is the flight to Los Angeles?

The duration of your flight to Los Angeles depends on your departure and arrival airports. Obviously any flights that include a layover will also be longer. The most popular routes to Los Angeles on KAYAK are from Cape Town, which takes 23h 35m, and Johannesburg, which takes 25h 01m.

How many direct flights to Los Angeles are there each day?

There are around 965 direct flights from within South Africa to Los Angeles every day. Most flights depart in the morning, with 6:00 am the most common departure time and 45% of flights departing in the morning.

How many direct flights to Los Angeles are there each week?

Each week there are around 6,752 direct flights from within South Africa to Los Angeles. The most common day for departures is Monday, with 15% of flights taking off on this day.

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February

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December

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FAQs - booking Los Angeles flights

  • How far is Los Angeles from central Los Angeles?

    Central Los Angeles is 9 miles away from Los Angeles.

  • What is the name of Los Angeles’s airport?

    When flying to Los Angeles, you'll arrive at Los Angeles (LAX). The airport is also known as Los Angeles or Los Angeles Intl.

  • How does KAYAK find such low prices on flights to Los Angeles?

    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 Los Angeles.

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    KAYAK’s flight Price Forecast tool uses historical data to determine whether the price for a flight to Los Angeles 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 Los Angeles?

    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 Los Angeles 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 Los Angeles?

    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 Los Angeles 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 Los Angeles?

    Of the 15 airlines that fly to Los Angeles, Delta offers the most flights, with around 1,950 per week, followed by American Airlines with 1,508 flights per week.

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Nonstop departures

South Africa to Los Angeles

Monday

AIR PREMIA, ANA, Aer Lingus, +92 more

AIR PREMIA, ANA, +93 more

Tuesday

AIR PREMIA, ANA, Aer Lingus, +88 more

AIR PREMIA, ANA, +89 more

Wednesday

AIR PREMIA, ANA, Aer Lingus, +91 more

AIR PREMIA, ANA, +92 more

Thursday

AIR PREMIA, ANA, Aer Lingus, +91 more

AIR PREMIA, ANA, +92 more

Friday

AIR PREMIA, ANA, Aer Lingus, +92 more

AIR PREMIA, ANA, +93 more

Saturday

AIR PREMIA, ANA, Aer Lingus, +94 more

AIR PREMIA, ANA, +95 more

Sunday

AIR PREMIA, ANA, Aer Lingus, +93 more

AIR PREMIA, ANA, +94 more

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Nonstop returns

Los Angeles to South Africa

Monday

AIR PREMIA, ANA, Aer Lingus, +92 more

AIR PREMIA, ANA, +93 more

Tuesday

AIR PREMIA, ANA, Aer Lingus, +88 more

AIR PREMIA, ANA, +89 more

Wednesday

AIR PREMIA, ANA, Aer Lingus, +91 more

AIR PREMIA, ANA, +92 more

Thursday

AIR PREMIA, ANA, Aer Lingus, +91 more

AIR PREMIA, ANA, +92 more

Friday

AIR PREMIA, ANA, Aer Lingus, +92 more

AIR PREMIA, ANA, +93 more

Saturday

AIR PREMIA, ANA, Aer Lingus, +94 more

AIR PREMIA, ANA, +95 more

Sunday

AIR PREMIA, ANA, Aer Lingus, +93 more

AIR PREMIA, ANA, +94 more

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Top 5 airlines serving from South Africa to Los Angeles

 
See real verified KAYAK customer reviews for airlines flying to Los Angeles. Airline scores are aggregated from all reviews left by passengers on KAYAK after flying with an airline from South Africa to Los Angeles. 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 Los Angeles? 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 10745 reviews
8.6Crew
8.0Entertainment
7.9Comfort
7.4Food
8.2Boarding
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There was a loud squeaky sound the whole time we were flying.

6.0 GoodEliza, Apr 2024SAN - LAX
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There was a loud squeaky sound the whole time we were flying.

I didn’t like that I could not select my seat and was assigned a seat when I checked in at LAX

Great experience overall. Check in at Austin was congested as they only have about 6 check in kiosks, one was broken, and there was a lot of Spring Break travelers.

I was sitting at comfort +. One of the Asian male crew was so loud when he delivered service. When he asked questions or what food you need, he was shouting. He must be a prison guard before going Delta.

Bag drop off was slow and annoying. Only 2 agents at the entire delta desk, and no one directing traffic for what line to be in, many confused people slowed down the process. Boarding was fine. Seats in Delta comfort plus were fine. Snacks were great! Definitely a bonus. The entertainment system was awful — old, slow, not responsive, and completely unable to play games due to some kind of error. But on the other hand, thank you to Delta for the free WiFi. That made it better.

Space and comfort was good. Staff could have been more helpful and friendly.

Crew was great. However the seat I had would not recline and stay put. It would spring back to upright. Hopefully they can check the seats and maintain them. Otherwise the plane is clean and the crew is very friendly.

Boarding in Seattle is always a mess. Sat in Deltas new domestic first class cabin. Everything was great except I found the seat cushion to be fairly uncomfortable. I’m a bigger guy so take that into mind (6’2” / 300 lbs.). Crew was meh.

Like most domestic flights in the US, you are basically on your own with this airline when it comes to food, so be sure to purchase meals and drinks ahead of time or expect to arrive starving and dehydrated (like I was).

You need to be a hacker to get the (Free) WiFi

We left one hour late because of technical difficulties. The economy comfort seats are great for the price. The crew was mediocre, they do not provide a pleasant experience, they just deliver food and drinks and give orders, not very amicable, no service and hospitality focus.

Booked connecting flights with KlM. My serving flight was the furthest part of the airport. On arrival in Zurich. My two cases arrived but only one carry on belong to my son. His three suitcase didn't arrive. After enquiring we discovered they were still in Amsterdam. We landed at 11.12. We eventually left the airport just after one.

One of the vstewardeses wanted to bump me of the plane for absolutely nothing. There is CCTV in the plane ans everything can be verified. Very disappointing , you all will see, o other 5 years and the passangers who does not smile to flight attendent will be bumped off...

The flight itself it was great nice food the crew were very nice and helpful, Checking in from Birmingham wasn't great long queues for bag dropped, And I had my hand luggage case taken away from me even though I requested to have it with me as I had breakables items. I was told I can not because of the length of the flight with no explanation at all no options was given for me to take my fragile items out of my case it was taken away with hold buggage I find the staff member who was checking me in very unpleasant !! Can we please be advise if the rules have changed about the the carry on hand luggage it will be easier to be advise on booking your tickect if we not allowed to take the hand luggage with me. Overall I had a good flight .

All and all pretty good. It’s crowded but that is what flying is all about. But no complaints otherwise.

The seats are too cramped in that plane. If you’re above 1,80m consider alternatives or first class I guess… There were no emergency exits to seat somewhere with more legroom

The Crew have no idea about the food they're serving the passengers. The Crew MUST be instructed before each flight about the menu that will be served to the passengers, whether the food is vegetarian or non-vegetarian, whether it is Halal, Kosher or not.

Seats actually fit a human! Snack options were a bit lame but that’s ok

Boarding in NCL is really bad. I'm sure part of that is a directive from the airport that KLM can't change but part of that is due to KLM policy. NCL doesn't announce the gate of departure until 30 minutes before departure. However, when you arrive at the gate area, the gate agents file everyone into one long line and everyone boards from one line at one time. This line can stretch for 200m...easily. There is a separate line for groups 1 and 2 but you don't know it until you get to the gate area and agents don't announce/advertise it. Everyone else is grouped into one line. Are you in group 3? Doesn't matter...you board with group 5. Traveling with a child? Tough luck...you're stuck at the end of the line and board last. The last part is very annoying because none of the gates at NCL (with the exception of 1 used by Emirates) has a jetway. To board, you must leave the gate area, walk downstairs, walk onto the tarmac and walk up stairs to board the plane. Highly challenging if you're traveling with small children. That boarding process begs for a concession to allow people with children to board first because they will need extra time. But there is no such policy. Just a really horrible boarding experience all around.

Pros: "Crew was great, on time flight, clean plane."
Cons: "Entertainments options were shockingly few. Honestly have not been on a plane recently with so few and limited options of TV series and movies. I was extremely surprised. Wish I had know and I would’ve had more options for my family."

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

Just happy I flew Qatar Airways awesome no wonder they are #1 in the world right now! The food was just delicious, very courteous, professional crew.

It was good no problems made it on time for the next flight overseas!

It was a really long flight from Doha to Philadelphia and it was overall a good one. The one area that I would comment on is that there is a lot of single-use plastic and disposables in the meal service for American Airlines. It would be great to see more circular options in the meal service to reduce the amount of waste.

Suddenly Flight has been change by Qatar and there’s no information is there of us from Bom to Doha and counter person is behaving like Qatar owner next I will not buy Qatar and I will not suggest anyone to fly in Qatar

The crew was fantastic and the over flight was perfect as well.

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

The crew was great and the food and liquor offerings were good. Seats were a bit cramped. Flight arrived early at destination. That's a plus.

All over with Qatar airlines my experience was really bad due to delays and then putting me on different airlines and after 8 hours of wait I had to listen to their is no plane to fly for another 24 hours. Wore experience ever.

I had already opted for Vegan food before 2 months yet they say we have no record for it,

Check in etc was very good. As for on the plane, it was like flying in a freezer. It was so cold, i have flown for years and never been so cold on a plane. Staff on board said its always cold when flying which is a load of rubbish. They wouldnt put any heating on and now i have the flu because of this .

Our original business class flight was cancelled so we not only downgraded but we were also spread out across the plane not sitting together in separate middle seats. My poor kids were scared and couldn’t see me on the flight and the crew wasn’t sensitive to the situation and what the airlines did to us. Very dissatisfied with United airlines.

The WiFi didn’t work and the seats are too close together. Very uncomfortable.

On time every leg of the journey and exceptional staff at counter, gate, and on board. I haven’t travelled in US for a long time and was genuinely surprised how pleasant this was.

Too many fees (but that seems to apply to all airlines nowadays)

Over two hours wait to get wheelchair assistance from arrival to the departure gate for LA was unreasonable even though there appreared to be heavy demand.

I was duped into thinking it was a United Airlines flight when in fact United had nothing to do with it.

There was no lounge for passengers waiting before boarding the aircraft at F65, so passengers are just sitting on the floor or just spread everywhere the premises before boarding.

The flight and crew were fine. The entertainment- the sound was so bad through the headphones I could barely understand it and it was a show I had seen before. The food might have been fine but having to have an account with united in order to access the app in order to pay for the food was rage inducing. I had entered my credit card info at home and logged in as guest but that wouldn’t allow the “wallet” tab to open in the app. And then the wifi was so bad that it took about 45 minutes to fully log in and get all the info working at which time I missed the food. You shouldn’t have to give your address, email and phone number in order to get a hamburger.

Unfortunately our flight was delayed by 45 minutes due to Kate arriving aircraft. Once we stated everything was great.

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!

Terrible. Flight was 3 hours delayed and I missed my other flight to my final destination

Offered vegetable curry when it was actually tofu which I don’t care for.

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Recent round-trip flight deals

 
These are the cheapest round-trip flights to Los Angeles found on KAYAK in the last 72 hours.
8/25Sun
1 stopDelta
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9/8Sun
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39h 50mLAX-CPT
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6/4Tue
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1 stopBritish Airways
30h 05mLAX-JNB
$1,044
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1 stopBritish Airways
30h 55mJNB-LAX
6/17Mon
2 stopsBritish Airways
31h 45mLAX-JNB
$1,070
5/28Tue
1 stopKLM
24h 35mCPT-LAX
7/18Thu
2 stopsKLM
37h 30mLAX-CPT
$1,388
6/3Mon
2 stopsUnited Airlines
28h 30mJNB-LAX
6/16Sun
2 stopsUnited Airlines
32h 00mLAX-JNB
$1,439
7/4Thu
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26h 50mJNB-LAX
7/15Mon
1 stopQatar Airways
33h 55mLAX-JNB
$1,448
6/26Wed
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26h 50mJNB-LAX
7/3Wed
1 stopQatar Airways
33h 55mLAX-JNB
$1,477
5/30Thu
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36h 13mJNB-LAX
7/29Mon
2 stopsUnited Airlines
31h 48mLAX-JNB
$1,530
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30h 10mCPT-LAX
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45h 28mCPT-LAX
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