Flights to the Seychelles

We organise flights to and from the UK and Seychelles for most of our travellers. However, if you'd like to book with air-miles, and prefer to arrange your own flights, then feel free to do so. If you book the Seychelles flights yourself, we will gladly make the ground arrangements for you.

Below we've given precise times for flights. These are correct at time of writing, but are not updated frequently – so some will have changed by the time you read this. Please use these times and frequencies as a rough guide only.

Starting from London

The easiest and most direct way to reach the Seychelles from London is to fly to Seychelles International Airport on Mahé Island with Air Seychelles. These flights depart London Heathrow every Friday and Sunday evening (typically Fridays at 6:25pm, Sundays at 6:20pm), arriving on Mahé the following morning (Saturdays 10:00am, Mondays 9:50am).

As an alternative to the direct London – Mahé flights, mentioned here, there are a number of flight suppliers operating different routes, including Kenya Airways, between Mahé and Nairobi – ideal if you want to add a beach holiday in the Seychelles to a safari in Africa.

Starting from the USA

Flying from the USA you have two options for your flight arrangements:

1) You arrange your flights USA -> London and London -> USA.
Expert Africa arranges for you the London -> Seychelles and Seychelles -> London flights.

This makes sense as we have excellent rates on the flights to Africa – and it also allows us to make use of low add-on rates for your flights within Africa, which can be linked to your international ticket. However, you need to have enough turn-around time between planes in London.

2) You arrange your flights USA -> Seychelles and Seychelles -> USA, and inform us of the flight carriers and times.
Expert Africa organises your travels in the Seychelles, including car hire, boat transfers, or any smaller flights within the Seychelles.

This makes sense if you are flying on a shorter route from the USA – e.g. on the Emirates service linking Los Angeles with the Seychelles, via Dubai. If you choose to arrange your intercontinental flights yourself, then we prefer you to also book the connecting flights at the same time, with the same people who you buy your intercontinental flight tickets with (eg: links between Jo'burg or Lusaka and the Seychelles).

This way there's no risk of one flight being delayed or cancelled, and you being left with two flights which do not connect.