
SAO to JNBSouth Africa
Johannesburg
$593
usually $885
−33%
Most monthly lows $771–$885. Cheaper than every other month on record (3).
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Flights · SAO → HKT
Best fare, round trip
$1,535
Too little price history on this route to compare — the fare is shown as found.
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
ThailandPhuketThailand’s busiest beach island — crowded where the road goes, empty where the boat does.Best windowNov–MarAirportsPhuket (HKT)Every route into PhuketFare seasonality
The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes 2 stops and takes about 23.5 hours outbound, on a 10-night trip — ticketed under ITA Airways, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $1,535 for 15,902 km each way, that works out to about $48 per 1,000 km flown. That is about the $42 per 1,000 km typical of ultra-long-haul fares here. Across the 12 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Phuket, this fare ranks 12th — 2.1× the $715 we hold from Los Angeles. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 25 routes of similar length we watch out of São Paulo, where the middle fare is $1,556. We have 2 months of cached prices for this route so far — not enough to call a fare cheap or expensive, so we publish the price without a percentage. Fare history here is still too short to name a cheap season. The best time to be in Phuket: Nov–Mar.
The 7 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 29% higher than when tracking began on 8 Aug — $1,706 then versus $2,209 now, across 8 recorded snapshots. This is a calendar-level trend, so an individual deal above can be lower. The lowest single day we have seen here is $1,535, on 30 Nov.
These are the only days we have a cached price for on this route so far — not the only days it flies. The search above covers any date.
We are still collecting this route's months — 2 months of cached prices so far, too few to chart.
Route facts
Good to know
We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet. Answering it honestly means watching the same departure date on this route over many weeks as it approaches, and that archive is still filling up — so any "book N days ahead" figure here would be borrowed from somewhere else rather than measured. Our guide Why flight prices change covers the levers we can measure.
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under ITA Airways. We hold no nonstop fare on this route right now, which does not mean none flies — search your exact dates to see what does.
No — these are cached fares found on real searches (this one on 17 October). Airlines reprice constantly, so the booking search re-checks the live price before you pay. Fresher finds are far more likely to still be available.
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