Cape Town to Maseru flight

Flights from Cape Town to Maseru start at €161.80 and take 7h 17m at their fastest.

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The Flights from Cape Town to Maseru starts at €161.80 and takes 7h 17m door to door, run by 1 operator over 1,660 km, with around 1 departure a day. Fares bottom out about 45 days before departure.

Checked 22 September 2026Priced for 7 October 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 7h 17mDoor to door
  • 3h 2mMoving
  • €182.45 to €465.65From
  • 07:30 to 07:30First and last departure
  • 1Per day
  • 346.9 kgCO2

First and last are taken from the services we sell on 7 October 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.

€182.45 to €465.65 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.

Fares by date

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

Typical fares

  1. about €322.87Wed23
  2. about €465.65Thu24
  3. about €380.69Fri25
  4. about €355.91Sat26
  5. about €240.27Sun27
  6. about €220.80Mon28
  7. about €269.77Tue29
  8. about €233.78Wed30
  9. about €249.71Thu1
  10. about €228.47Fri2
  11. about €206.05Sat3
  12. about €182.45Sun4
  13. about €190.12Mon5
  14. about €187.76Tue6

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

Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on 7 October 2026

Cheapest€161.80
  1. Airlink (SAA) AS494807:302h 9m09:39Cape Town International Airport CPTO.R. Tambo International Airport JNB
  2. Airlink (SAA) AS908910:4453m11:37O.R. Tambo International Airport JNBMoshoeshoe I International Airport MSU

Changes at Johannesburg, with 65 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.

Door to door 7h 17mCO2 346.9 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.
OperatorFromFastestTypical speedFlexibilityOn board
Airlink (SAA)NoneNone740 km/hFixed fareNot published

The flight gets you into Maseru. These two partners take it from there, and the bed is theirs to book.

A hotel room

A room in Maseru for the night the flight gets in

Sort by distance from Maseru Station and you can see which places are ten minutes on foot and which are not.

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Booking window

When to book Cape Town to Maseru

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

  1. €174.7890 days
  2. €174.7860 days
  3. €152.3645 days
  4. €178.3230 days
  5. €162.3921 days
  6. €187.7614 days
  7. €269.777 days
  8. €380.693 days
  9. €322.871 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 45 days ahead, at €152.36.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 150 percent. The dearest point is €380.69, 3 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 45 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. €184.22Sun
  2. €190.12Mon
  3. €187.76Tue
  4. €233.78Wed
  5. €249.71Thu
  6. €228.47Fri
  7. €216.67Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Cape Town

Air
  • CPT

Maseru

Air
  • MSU
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 1,660 km against 999 km in a straight line, a detour of 66 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
Where the change is
Connections are made at Johannesburg. The gap between arriving and leaving is 65 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 15 percent chance of not being made on the timetable alone. Both legs are sold on one booking, so a missed connection is ours to fix and you are rebooked at no charge.
First and last departure
The first service of the day leaves Cape Town 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.

Questions about Cape Town to Maseru

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 Cape Town to Maseru take?

The Flight from Cape Town to Maseru takes 7h 17m door to door, of which 3h 2m is spent moving. The route runs 1,660 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 Cape Town to Maseru cost?

The Flight from Cape Town to Maseru starts at €161.80 for one passenger, as of 22 September 2026. A typical fare is €161.80. 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 Cape Town to Maseru?

1 operators run the Flight from Cape Town to Maseru: Airlink (SAA). 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 Cape Town to Maseru use?

The Flight from Cape Town to Maseru leaves from Cape Town International Airport CPT and arrives at Moshoeshoe I International Airport MSU. Allow about 3h 10m for reaching the departure terminal and leaving the arrival one. That time is already inside every door to door figure quoted on this page.

When should I book the Flight from Cape Town to Maseru?

Fares for the Flight from Cape Town to Maseru bottom out around 45 days ahead, at €152.36. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 150 percent, measured on 22 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Flight from Cape Town to Maseru produce?

The Flight from Cape Town to Maseru produces about 346.9 kg of CO2 per passenger over 1660 km, which works out at roughly 209 grams per passenger kilometre. That figure is for the whole journey and for one traveller, not for the vehicle.

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 Cape Town to Maseru on 22 September 2026: 1660 km of route against 999 km in a straight line, 1 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €161.80, and 7h 17m 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 MSU into Maseru is set by whoever drives it.

A taxi rank outside an airport terminal

A car waiting when you land in Maseru

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

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