Cape Town (CPT) to Phuket (HKT): 5,950 miles (9,576 km) great-circle, about 12h 25m nonstop by our estimate. Cheapest fare observed: $815 round-trip on Qatar, with 1 stop, departing May 5, 2026.
$815 round-trip, Qatar QR6136, departing 2026-05-05 at 19:30, returning 2026-05-11. The recorded itinerary left on a Tuesday, returning on a Monday 6 nights later; the fare was observed 10 days before departure. "Book this flight" opens Kiwi.com with the same airline and dates.
At $815, it ranked 18th of the 30 round-trip fares we recorded from CPT (median $794). That is 13.7 cents per great-circle mile (round-trip price over one-way distance), below the CPT median of 28.3 cents across 30 round-trip routes.
Routes from CPT of similar length: London (6,016 mi) at $787 and Bali (6,253 mi) at $800.
Qatar had the cheapest fare on 9 of 30 CPT routes. It is the 8th longest of the 30 routes we track from CPT.
Of 32 departure airports with a fare to Phuket, Cape Town (CPT) ranked 29th at $815. Lowest: $71 from Bangkok (BKK); highest: $1878 from Panama City (PTY); 8 nonstop. Cheapest-fare airlines (routes): Scoot (9), Air China (2), Etihad (2), Qatar (2), Thai Lion Air (2) and Air Europa (1), plus 14 more.
Travelpayouts fares (cheapest per route, observed April 25, 2026); OurAirports coordinates and elevations; IANA zones Africa/Johannesburg, Asia/Bangkok; flight time is our estimate.