Flights from Johannesburg to Antananarivo (JNB-TNR): Airlines

Flights Johannesburg -> Antananarivo (JNB-TNR) — USD Fares, Airlines, Frequency

3 scheduled departures a week link Johannesburg (JNB) in South Africa with Antananarivo (TNR) — one every 2.3 days on average — flown by 2 catalogued carriers at a scheduled block time near 4.5 hours. Our catalogue scores corridor demand 5/10 and files it as an intra-Africa + Gulf hub transit corridor.

Flight JNB -> TNR is operated by Airlink, Ethiopian Airlines (~3 flights per week, ~4.5h block time). This is an intra-Africa + Gulf hub transit corridor, with typical economy USD fares in the $500-1,500 band. Intra-Africa and Gulf-hub transit fares move week-to-week; 4-8 weeks is the typical sweet spot.

Great-circle distance Johannesburg–Antananarivo is about 2,135 km, computed from the stored coordinates of JNB (-26.13, 28.24) and TNR (-18.80, 47.48). What the figure fixes is the sector profile — 2,135 km against a scheduled 4.5-hour block time — and the fuel-and-crew economics behind the fare floor. It does not fix a compensation amount. No fixed-tariff compensation scheme reaches JNB–TNR. EU261 and UK261 do band by distance, but they only cover flights departing an EU/EEA or UK airport — plus arrivals there on a bloc-licensed carrier — and neither endpoint here is one, whoever operates the flight. The Montreal Convention 1999 is what applies, and it pays provable loss, not a tariff.

Airlines on this route

2 carriers operate JNB–TNR: Airlink (4Z) and Ethiopian Airlines (ET). Our carrier table records checked-baggage baselines of 23 kg; Ethiopian Airlines sits in Star Alliance, with no alliance recorded for 4Z. That mix decides three things — the fare floor, whether your bag is through-checked on a connection, and which delay regulation covers you.

One column is blank rather than negative. Our carrier file carries a row for Airlink but no alliance value, which means unrecorded, not unaligned — this page therefore says nothing about its alliance membership either way. The practical question a connection turns on is narrower anyway: whether the two airlines on your itinerary interline, and whether both sectors sit on one ticket. Both are answerable at the booking screen, and neither depends on an alliance badge.

USD fares — JNB-TNR

$691 is the lowest one-way economy price the Travelpayouts feed returned for JNB–TNR on 4Z, for a 2026-09-18T10:00:00+02:00 departure. That is a single cached observation on this one corridor — not a low across the site’s fare cache, and not a live price — so read it as an observed floor for JNB–TNR on that date.

Typical economy fares on JNB-TNR sit in the $500-1,500 range. Live cached fares from Travelpayouts appear in the panel below; fare-month seasonality follows.

Across the 5 departure months our cache holds a one-way low for, the cheapest reading on JNB–TNR is $277 for a Oct 2026 departure and the dearest is $378 for May 2027 — a spread of $101 between the best and worst month in the same cache. Month-to-month movement of that size is normal on this corridor and is usually worth more than any single booking trick.

The $691 quote in our cache is a nonstop itinerary of 6 h 20 m, which is the cleanest case: one flight number, one bag tag, one carrier responsible end to end. It also means the price floor on JNB–TNR does not depend on a connection holding together, so a delay costs you time rather than a missed onward sector.

JNB–TNR fare history — 2026-W23 to 2026-W25

3 weekly readings between 2026-W23 and 2026-W25 put the cached JNB–TNR low between $434 and $764 — a $330 spread, 76% of the cheapest reading. The cheapest reading is also the most recent, 2026-W25. Each row is one weekly snapshot of the cheapest published quote, not an average of everything sold that week.

The cached low fell 43% between the first and last reading, from $764 to $434. Read it with the sample size in front of you: 3 observations over a ten-week window is a signal about this corridor’s volatility, not a forecast. What it does establish is a defensible floor — you now know $434 was achievable on JNB–TNR inside the window, so a quote well above $764 is worth a second search.

Each row is a single weekly snapshot of the cheapest published quote, taken on one day, not an average of everything sold that week. Two consequences follow. A one-week dip can be a single small fare bucket rather than a trend, and a gap between weeks means we did not sample, not that fares vanished. Our history file covers 161 corridors on this pattern, which is what makes cross-corridor comparison possible at all.

How much baggage can you take on JNB–TNR?

23 kg is the checked-baggage baseline our carrier table records for the 2 airlines on JNB–TNR, with a recorded diaspora uplift of up to +7 kg on Airlink. Baselines are economy figures and fare-family dependent. The allowance printed on your issued ticket overrides any table, this one included.

The baseline is the headline, the fare family is the contract. On JNB–TNR the same carrier will sell you a fare beneath its own advertised allowance, and those stripped buckets are exactly the ones that set record-low cached prices. Whatever a table says — this one included — the allowance on your issued itinerary is the number that will be enforced at the counter.

Where our table records a migrant or diaspora uplift — +7 kg on Airlink and +5 kg on Ethiopian Airlines — three exclusions usually bite. The uplift attaches to nominated corridors rather than the whole network; it rarely survives onto a codeshare or interline segment operated and ticketed by a different airline; and the deepest-discount fare buckets are commonly carved out. None of that makes the uplift fictional, but it does mean it has to be confirmed against your booking class, in writing, before you pack to it.

Search live fares

3 weekly departures across 2 carriers mean a live JNB–TNR search returns several price points for the same day; our cached floor for the corridor is $691. Scheduled nonstop block time is 4.5 hours, so any result far above that is connecting whatever the screen says.

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Comparing JNB–TNR quotes fairly takes three corrections. Passenger count and cabin have to match across the tabs you are comparing. Elapsed time has to be read beside the price, since a connection can add most of a day to the 4.5-hour nonstop. And the baggage line has to be checked, because the cheapest fare family is usually the one carrying the least.

Date flexibility beats every other lever on JNB–TNR. Month-scanning surfaces the seasonal shape our fare log records; repeated searching on one fixed date mostly surfaces the same fare bucket. When the calendar is not negotiable — pilgrimage, school holidays, a job start — the useful move is to buy sooner, because scarcity, not timing, is what sets the price then.

About Antananarivo

3 catalogued corridors in this site’s data reach Antananarivo (TNR), Ivato International, ICAO FMMI, from 3 catalogued origins and 4 carriers in total. That count is this site’s coverage of Antananarivo, not the airport’s published schedule. Each of those corridors has its own guide with carriers, weekly frequency, scheduled block time and whatever the fare cache holds.

Antananarivo, Madagascar — destination on the intra-Africa + Gulf hub transit corridor. Destination currency: USD (we quote in USD throughout this guide).

Beyond JNB, our catalogue reaches Antananarivo from 2 other origins: Port Louis (MRU) and Nairobi (NBO). That matters when the JNB–TNR fare is unattractive: on a continent where positioning flights are cheap, flying out of a different gateway is a real option, and each of those corridors has its own guide, carriers and cached fare floor on this site.

Where our airport file holds no coordinates, hub carriers or country row for a destination, this page says less rather than guessing — no distance band, no hub analysis, no currency note. Antananarivo is catalogued here on the strength of the JNB–TNR corridor itself: the carriers our route file records, the estimated weekly frequency, the scheduled block time and whatever the fare cache has seen. That is a narrower page, and an honest one.

FAQ

Which airlines fly Johannesburg to Antananarivo? Direct JNB-TNR flights are operated by Airlink, Ethiopian Airlines. Compare baggage baseline and alliance in the carrier table above.

How long is the JNB-TNR flight and how often does it run? Block time is about 4.5 hours. The JNB-TNR route runs roughly 3 flights per week across all carriers.

How much does a JNB-TNR flight cost and when is it cheapest? Typical economy fares sit in the $500-1,500 USD band. Intra-Africa and Gulf-hub transit fares move week-to-week; 4-8 weeks is the typical sweet spot.

What is the checked baggage allowance on JNB-TNR? It varies by carrier and fare class — see the baggage-baseline column in the carrier table above. Full-service carriers usually include 23-30 kg, while low-cost carriers sell it as an add-on. Confirm on the airline’s site before booking.

What currency is used in Antananarivo? Antananarivo uses USD. Fares in this guide are quoted in USD; budget on-the-ground spending in USD.

Related routes and reading

2 pages below connect to JNB–TNR through the data: a shared airport, a shared operating carrier, or the same audience cluster in our segmentation. Each is annotated with what it actually contains, so you can decide before clicking. Each corridor entry carries that route’s carriers, estimated weekly frequency, scheduled block time and demand score straight from our route file.

• Johannesburg airport (JNB) — O.R. Tambo International, South Africa: 39 catalogued departure corridors and 6 arrival corridors.
• Antananarivo airport (TNR) — Ivato International, Madagascar: 0 catalogued departure corridors and 3 arrival corridors.

Internal links on this site are placed from the data, not from a keyword list: a corridor is linked when it shares an origin, a destination, a carrier or an audience cluster with the page you are on. If a link above looks unrelated to your trip, it probably shares a carrier or a hub rather than a destination.

The corridor links are there to be used as alternatives, not as further reading. If the JNB–TNR fare or schedule does not work, a different African gateway to Antananarivo is often the better fix — positioning within the continent is cheap relative to the long-haul sector, and the fare gap between two origins to the same destination is regularly wider than the positioning ticket. The catch is that separately issued sectors carry no protection if the first one runs late.