Bloemfontein to Pietermaritzburg flight

Flights from Bloemfontein to Pietermaritzburg start at €60.90 and take 4h 47m at their fastest.

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The Flights from Bloemfontein to Pietermaritzburg starts at €60.90 and takes 4h 47m door to door, run by 2 operators over 564 km, with around 1 departure a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.

Checked 22 September 2026Priced for 13 October 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 4h 47mDoor to door
  • 1h 42mMoving
  • €70.94 to €138.20From
  • 07:30 to 07:30First and last departure
  • 1Per day
  • 104.3 kgCO2

First and last are taken from the services we sell on 13 October 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.

€70.94 to €138.20 for one passenger across the 14 departure dates priced here. The low end is one day, not every day. Typical for this corridor. The operator sets the price on the day.

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Fares by date

What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.

Typical fares

  1. about €129.94Wed23
  2. about €138.20Thu24
  3. about €134.07Fri25
  4. about €121.09Sat26
  5. about €97.49Sun27
  6. about €85.10Mon28
  7. about €103.98Tue29
  8. about €95.13Wed30
  9. about €92.18Thu1
  10. about €96.90Fri2
  11. about €101.03Sat3
  12. about €70.94Sun4
  13. about €77.43Mon5
  14. about €70.94Tue6

Based on what this route has cost recently. The live fare is confirmed when you book.

Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on 13 October 2026

Cheapest€60.90
  1. CemAir CA717807:301h 3m08:33Bram Fischer International Airport BFNKing Shaka International Airport DUR
  2. Shosholoza Meyl SM670309:4139m10:20Durban railway stationPietermaritzburg railway station

Changes at Durban, with 68 minutes between services and a walk of about 14 minutes.

Door to door 4h 47mCO2 104.3 kgChanges 1Fixed, no changes

Carriers

Airlines

Every operator we sell on this corridor. Speed is the carrier's own typical cruising speed, not the average over this route.
OperatorTypical speedFlexibilityOn board
CemAir740 km/hFixed fareNot published
Shosholoza Meyl140 km/hRefundablePower sockets, Wi-Fi

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A hotel room

A room in Pietermaritzburg for the night the flight gets in

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Booking window

When to book Bloemfontein to Pietermaritzburg

The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.

  1. €72.1190 days
  2. €57.9560 days
  3. €65.6245 days
  4. €78.0230 days
  5. €60.9021 days
  6. €70.9414 days
  7. €103.987 days
  8. €134.073 days
  9. €129.941 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €57.95.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 131 percent. The dearest point is €134.07, 3 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 60 days before departure. Waiting from here has usually cost money on this corridor rather than saved it.
Day of the week

Which departure day costs least

Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.

  1. €73.89Sun
  2. €77.43Mon
  3. €70.94Tue
  4. €95.13Wed
  5. €92.18Thu
  6. €96.90Fri
  7. €101.03Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Bloemfontein

Air
  • BFN

Pietermaritzburg

Air
  • PZB
The journey

What the journey looks like

Direct or connecting
0% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 100% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 564 km against 409 km in a straight line, a detour of 88 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
Where the change is
Connections are made at Durban, Johannesburg, Germiston. The gap between arriving and leaving is 68 minutes, of which about 14 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 14 percent chance of not being made on the timetable alone. Part of this journey is a self transfer between separate tickets, so leave more time than the minimum and expect to check in again.
First and last departure
The first service of the day leaves Bloemfontein at 07:30 and the last at 07:30, across 1 departure The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.
The alternatives

Flights against the other ways to make this journey

Door to door means the whole journey, including reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end. Fares are the cheapest sold on each mode.
ModeDoor to doorMovingAt the endsFromCO2Per day
Flight4h 47m1h 42m3h 5m€60.90104.3 kg1
Train8h 24m6h 10m2h 14m€93.2928.8 kg2

Questions about Bloemfontein to Pietermaritzburg

The questions people actually ask about this journey, answered from the same prices and times the page above is built on rather than written once and left to go stale.

How long does the Flight from Bloemfontein to Pietermaritzburg take?

The Flight from Bloemfontein to Pietermaritzburg takes 4h 47m door to door, of which 1h 42m is spent moving. The route runs 564 km. The difference between the two times is reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end, which every time on this page includes.

How much does the Flight from Bloemfontein to Pietermaritzburg cost?

The Flight from Bloemfontein to Pietermaritzburg starts at €60.90 for one passenger, as of 22 September 2026. A typical fare is €60.90. Both are the total including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so the price here is the price at checkout.

Who runs the Flight from Bloemfontein to Pietermaritzburg?

2 operators run the Flight from Bloemfontein to Pietermaritzburg: CemAir, Shosholoza Meyl. Between them they file around 1 departure a day. The operator table on this page compares them on fare, journey time, cruising speed, fare conditions and what is provided on board.

Which terminal does the Flight from Bloemfontein to Pietermaritzburg use?

The Flight from Bloemfontein to Pietermaritzburg leaves from Bram Fischer International Airport BFN and arrives at Pietermaritzburg railway station. Allow about 1h 57m for reaching the departure terminal and leaving the arrival one. That time is already inside every door to door figure quoted on this page.

Is the Flight the best way from Bloemfontein to Pietermaritzburg?

The Flight is both the cheapest and the fastest way from Bloemfontein to Pietermaritzburg, at €60.90 and 4h 47m door to door, against 1 other modes that also run the corridor. On this route there is no trade to make between the money and the hours.

When should I book the Flight from Bloemfontein to Pietermaritzburg?

Fares for the Flight from Bloemfontein to Pietermaritzburg bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €57.95. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 131 percent, measured on 22 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Flight from Bloemfontein to Pietermaritzburg produce?

The Flight from Bloemfontein to Pietermaritzburg produces about 104.3 kg of CO2 per passenger over 564 km, which works out at roughly 185 grams per passenger kilometre. That figure is for the whole journey and for one traveller, not for the vehicle.

What is provided on board the Flight from Bloemfontein to Pietermaritzburg?

Operators on the Flight from Bloemfontein to Pietermaritzburg publish Power sockets, Wi-Fi. That is what 2 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 4h 47m door to door. Where a carrier publishes nothing, this page lists nothing for it.

Where these numbers come from

Places, coordinates, operators, which operator serves which pair, and every distance on this page are real and come from open data. Where a corridor has a filed timetable the departure times are real too, and ferry fares are the prices the operators publish themselves.

Observed service A carrier record names this operator on this pair, carried through unchanged.

Prices come from the supplier wherever we hold a live quote. Elsewhere we show an indicative price built from the real distance, the real operator and a fare curve over lead time, day of the week and season. Those are labelled Estimated fare and cannot be booked.

Defined in full at Door to door, Fares, The booking window, Carbon

On this page
Every figure above was computed for Bloemfontein to Pietermaritzburg on 22 September 2026: 564 km of route against 409 km in a straight line, 1 services a day, 2 operators a cheapest fare of €60.90, and 4h 47m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

Related journeys

The fare from PZB into Pietermaritzburg is set by whoever drives it.

A taxi rank outside an airport terminal

A car waiting when you land in Pietermaritzburg

Settled in advance, so the ride into Pietermaritzburg costs what it said it would rather than what the rank says.

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