Johannesburg to Livingstone flight

Flights from Johannesburg to Livingstone start at €83.33 and take 4h 50m at their fastest.

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The Flights from Johannesburg to Livingstone starts at €83.33 and takes 4h 50m door to door, run by 3 operators over 985 km, with around 10 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 45 days before departure.

Checked 20 September 2026Priced for 7 October 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 4h 50mDoor to door
  • 1h 40mMoving
  • €100.44 to €178.91From
  • 06:00 to 14:42First and last departure
  • 10Per day
  • 205.9 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.

€100.44 to €178.91 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 €173.60Mon21
  2. about €158.85Tue22
  3. about €166.52Wed23
  4. about €178.91Thu24
  5. about €157.67Fri25
  6. about €157.67Sat26
  7. about €142.33Sun27
  8. about €100.44Mon28
  9. about €103.39Tue29
  10. about €108.11Wed30
  11. about €125.22Thu1
  12. about €113.42Fri2
  13. about €128.76Sat3
  14. about €105.75Sun4

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€83.33
  1. South African Airways SA711006:001h 40m07:40O.R. Tambo International Airport JNBHarry Mwanga Nkumbula International Airport LVI

Door to door 4h 50mCO2 205.9 kgChanges 0Fixed, 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.
OperatorFromFastest
Airlink (SAA)€85.104h 49m
Air Botswana€85.104h 49m
South African Airways€83.334h 50m

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

A hotel room

A room in Livingstone for the night the flight gets in

Sort by distance from Livingstone Local Bus Terminal and you can see which places are ten minutes on foot and which are not.

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Booking window

When to book Johannesburg to Livingstone

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

  1. €99.2690 days
  2. €83.9260 days
  3. €69.7645 days
  4. €78.0230 days
  5. €97.4921 days
  6. €105.7514 days
  7. €142.337 days
  8. €166.523 days
  9. €173.601 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 45 days ahead, at €69.76.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 149 percent. The dearest point is €173.60, 1 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. €105.75Sun
  2. €100.44Mon
  3. €103.39Tue
  4. €108.11Wed
  5. €125.22Thu
  6. €113.42Fri
  7. €128.76Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Johannesburg

Air
  • JNB
  • HLA

Livingstone

Air
  • LVI
  • BBK
The journey

What the journey looks like

Direct or connecting
60% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 40% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 985 km against 957 km in a straight line, a detour of 3 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
Where the change is
Connections are made at Gaborone, Harare, Maun, Lusaka. The gap between arriving and leaving is 67 minutes, of which about 5 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 Johannesburg at 06:00 and the last at 14:42, across 10 departures The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Johannesburg to Livingstone

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 Johannesburg to Livingstone take?

The Flight from Johannesburg to Livingstone takes 4h 50m door to door, of which 1h 40m is spent moving. The route runs 985 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 Johannesburg to Livingstone cost?

The Flight from Johannesburg to Livingstone starts at €83.33 for one passenger, as of 20 September 2026. A typical fare is €105.16. 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 Johannesburg to Livingstone?

3 operators run the Flight from Johannesburg to Livingstone: Airlink (SAA), Air Botswana, South African Airways. Between them they file around 10 departures 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 Johannesburg to Livingstone use?

The Flight from Johannesburg to Livingstone leaves from O.R. Tambo International Airport JNB and arrives at Harry Mwanga Nkumbula International Airport LVI. 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 Johannesburg to Livingstone?

Fares for the Flight from Johannesburg to Livingstone bottom out around 45 days ahead, at €69.76. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 149 percent, measured on 20 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Flight from Johannesburg to Livingstone produce?

The Flight from Johannesburg to Livingstone produces about 205.9 kg of CO2 per passenger over 985 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 Johannesburg to Livingstone on 20 September 2026: 985 km of route against 957 km in a straight line, 10 services a day, 3 operators a cheapest fare of €83.33, and 4h 50m 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 LVI into Livingstone is set by whoever drives it.

A taxi rank outside an airport terminal

A car waiting when you land in Livingstone

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

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