Flights to Germany

Travellers reach Germany from 5 African airports on 5 catalogued routes, flown by EgyptAir, Lufthansa, Royal Air Maroc, South African Airways. This corridor sits in the business / Indian-African / Lebanese-African corridor. The tables below list every catalogued route, the carriers on it, and — where our cache has data — the lowest USD fare seen; all fares are quoted in USD, with on-the-ground spending in EUR.

Routes to Germany

5 catalogued corridors reach Germany from 5 African airports, flown by 4 carriers and totalling about 48 weekly departures, with block times from 4.0 h to 10.5 h. 1 of them run fewer than seven times a week, the line where a cancellation starts costing days rather than hours.

1 of these corridors runs fewer than seven times a week, which is the line where disruption stops being an inconvenience. Below daily frequency, a cancellation can mean days rather than hours, and re-accommodation onto another airline requires an interline or codeshare agreement rather than goodwill. If your dates into Germany are fixed, prefer the higher-frequency gateway even at a higher fare.

Weekly frequency here is our catalogue’s estimate for each corridor as a whole rather than a published timetable for one airline, and it moves with the seasonal schedule change. Block times are scheduled gate-to-gate for the nonstop sector, so a much longer duration on a booking screen means a connection. Both figures are our own estimates, last revised 2026-05-19.

Airlines flying to Germany

4 carriers fly the corridors into Germany covered here; for the 4 we hold details on, checked-baggage baselines are 23 kg, and 4 of them belong to a global alliance. Baselines are economy figures and depend on the fare family you buy.

Carriers operating the catalogued routes to Germany, with alliance, baggage baseline and any diaspora or pilgrim baggage uplift:

Diaspora and migrant-worker baggage uplift recorded against these carriers: Royal Air Maroc +23 kg, EgyptAir +18 kg and South African Airways +5 kg. Three exclusions normally apply to promotions of this kind: they attach to nominated corridors rather than the whole network, they are rarely honoured on another airline’s codeshare or interline segment, and the deepest-discount fare buckets are usually carved out. Confirm against your own booking class in writing.

Visa & entry — Germany

This page does not state an entry requirement for Germany, because the rule depends on your passport. Check Germany’s own immigration or foreign-ministry guidance for your nationality before booking — it is the only authority worth acting on.

Entry rules by named nationality (verify against the official source before booking):

Apply at the consulate of your main destination country. Visa lists: eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2018/1806/oj. Use our Schengen 90/180 calculator on /tools/.

Read any entry rule against your own passport. The row above names the nationalities it covers; an ECOWAS, EAC, Maghreb or Horn passport not named there can face a different fee, a different processing route, or no eligibility at all for the same destination.

The trap on a Germany itinerary is usually the transit rather than the destination. A connection can place you airside in a third country that requires a transit visa for your nationality even when you never leave the terminal, and the airline checks documentation for the entire itinerary at the origin gate. Check every country your ticket touches, against your own passport.

When to book

Book 4-8 weeks ahead. Treat that window as general guidance for travel into Germany rather than a rule for a single pairing; on thin corridors seat availability binds before price does.

Book 4-8 weeks ahead. Business demand keeps fares higher mid-week and around the December holidays. See each per-route guide for month-by-month fare seasonality.

Treat the window as a function of the schedule rather than a rule. Dense corridors into Germany keep releasing inventory, so a late booking costs money but still works. Thin ones sell their cheap buckets months ahead and then simply run out, which is a different failure — one that no amount of refreshing a search will fix.

Fixed dates change the calculation entirely. A pilgrimage window, a school holiday, a contract start or a family event puts you in competition with everyone else holding that date, so the right move is to book early rather than to hunt. Flexible dates are the highest-leverage variable on these corridors — our own log regularly shows month-to-month movement larger than any gap between booking gates.

Cached fares to Germany

$1,055 is the lowest USD quote our cache holds on any corridor into Germany — on LOS-FRA — out of 1 priced corridor of the 5 catalogued. Each is one cached observation on its own corridor, in economy, not a low across the cache.

Lowest USD fares in our weekly Travelpayouts cache on routes to Germany (market lows across all carriers, each a dated observation; check live prices before booking):

Those rows come from our weekly fare log, which samples the cheapest published quote once a week across 161 corridors. Each reading is a single snapshot rather than an average of everything sold that week, so a one-week dip can be one small fare bucket. What the range does establish is a defensible floor: a live quote far above the top of the range on a Germany corridor is worth a second search on flexible dates.

Departure airports for Germany

5 African airports have a catalogued corridor to Germany on this site: Cairo (CAI), Casablanca (CMN), Johannesburg (JNB), Luanda (LAD) and Lagos (LOS). Fares from every one of them are quoted in USD so the origins stay comparable. Separately issued sectors carry no protection if the first runs late.

• Cairo (CAI) airport guide

• Casablanca (CMN) airport guide

• Johannesburg (JNB) airport guide

• Luanda (LAD) airport guide

• Lagos (LOS) airport guide

• Cairo airport (CAI) — Cairo International, Egypt: 12 catalogued departure corridors and 1 arrival corridor.

• Casablanca airport (CMN) — Mohammed V International, Morocco: 17 catalogued departure corridors and 0 arrival corridors.

• Johannesburg airport (JNB) — O.R. Tambo International, South Africa: 39 catalogued departure corridors and 6 arrival corridors.

• Luanda airport (LAD) — Quatro de Fevereiro, Angola: 13 catalogued departure corridors and 2 arrival corridors.

• Lagos airport (LOS) — Murtala Muhammed International, Nigeria: 19 catalogued departure corridors and 2 arrival corridors.

FAQ

6 questions below answer what travellers ask most often about this page’s subject, drawn from the same route, carrier, airport and fare data as everything above. Where a figure is missing from our data, the answer says so rather than estimating.

Do I need a visa for Germany? Schengen short-stay visa (type C) needed for South African, Nigerian, Kenyan, Ghanaian, Botswanan and Namibian passports (Annex I of Regulation (EU) 2018/1806); Mauritius and Seychelles passports are visa-exempt (Annex II)

What currency is used in Germany? Germany uses EUR. Plan on-the-ground spending in EUR and compare airfares in USD.

How many routes go to Germany from Africa? Our catalogue lists 5 routes to Germany from 5 African airports — see the table above.

When are flights to Germany cheapest? Book 4-8 weeks ahead. Business demand keeps fares higher mid-week and around the December holidays.

Which airlines fly to Germany? Carriers on routes to Germany include EgyptAir, Lufthansa, Royal Air Maroc, South African Airways. See the per-route airlines in the table above.

How cheap are flights to Germany? The lowest cached fare to Germany in our weekly snapshot was about $1,055 on LOS-FRA — a dated observation, not a current price. Fares move with season; the route guides show each fare with the date it was found.

Search live fares

5 catalogued corridors into Germany means a live search will return several routings for the same dates; the lowest cached floor across them in our weekly snapshot was $1,055 — a dated observation, not a current price. Dates move the price more than any other variable. Fares across all 5 of those corridors are quoted in USD on this site so origins in different African markets stay comparable on one page.

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Three checks make results comparable. Fix passenger count and cabin before comparing, because a per-passenger fare and a total look identical on a results page. Read the elapsed time next to the price — a one-stop routing into Germany and a nonstop are different products. And check whether the fare includes the checked bag you will actually carry.

Scan the calendar, not the vendors. Between departure months our weekly log shows movement on these corridors well beyond anything that separates one booking gate from another, so a single flexible-date search outperforms repeated fixed-date ones. When the dates are fixed, earlier purchase is the only remaining lever.