AirportsAmsterdam

Amsterdam to Cape Town

πŸ‡³πŸ‡±AMSπŸ‡ΏπŸ‡¦CPTAmsterdam Airport Schiphol to Cape Town International AirportNetherlands to South Africa
Distance
9,688 km
6,020 miles
Frequency
About daily
S26 schedule
Airline
1
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines
Typical delay
24 min
31 departures

The route

Great circle, 9,688 km
AMSCPT9,688 km
9,688 km (6,020 miles) great-circle, measured between the two airports' published coordinates. The line is the shortest path over the globe, which on a flat map bows away from a straight line.

How delayed is this route?

Measured over months

Departures from Amsterdam Airport Schiphol on this route are typically 24 minutes late (likely 21 to 29), across 31 departures we tracked between 2026-03-28 and 2026-06-25.

median delay of tracked departures on this leg. Flight Owl's own resolved departure predictions (flights our users tracked), not a census of all flights at the airport.

Airlines on this route

1 airline with a flight number here

Every airline that puts its own flight number on this route. On a busy pair most of them are codeshare partners selling seats on another airline's aircraft, so this is wider than the list of airlines that actually operate it.

Flights on this route

1 of 1 flight numbers tracked often enough to describe
FlightAirlineDepartsAircraftDepartures seen
KL 597KLM Royal Dutch Airlines09:55not seen yet31

Departure times are local to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. A flight appears here once we have tracked it at least 10 times.

Both airports

How these numbers are measured