Cape Town (CPT) to Port Louis (MRU): 2,559 miles (4,118 km) great-circle, about 5h 35m nonstop by our estimate. Cheapest fare observed: $754 round-trip on South African Airways, with 1 stop, departing May 18, 2026.
$754 round-trip, South African Airways SA316, departing 2026-05-18 at 09:00, returning 2026-05-25. The recorded itinerary left on a Monday, returning on a Monday 7 nights later; the fare was observed 23 days before departure. "Book this flight" opens Kiwi.com with the same airline and dates.
At $754, it ranked 14th of the 30 round-trip fares we recorded from CPT (median $794). That is 29.5 cents per great-circle mile (round-trip price over one-way distance), close to the CPT median of 28.3 cents across 30 round-trip routes.
Routes from CPT of similar length: Zanzibar (2,327 mi) at $654 and Addis Ababa (3,250 mi) at $956.
South African Airways had the cheapest fare on 2 of 30 CPT routes. It is the 18th longest of the 30 routes we track from CPT.
Of 5 departure airports with a fare to Port Louis, Cape Town (CPT) ranked 4th at $754. Lowest: $671 from Johannesburg (JNB); highest: $2339 from Wellington (WLG); 0 nonstop. Cheapest-fare airlines (routes): Air India (1), airline UU (1), Emirates (1), IndiGo (1) and South African Airways (1).
Travelpayouts fares (cheapest per route, observed April 25, 2026); OurAirports coordinates and elevations; IANA zones Africa/Johannesburg, Indian/Mauritius; flight time is our estimate.