LOS → LHR
Cheap flights from Lagos to London
Lowest fare we found
from ₦561,151one way, per adult
Cheapest Economy fare found for one adult departing 13 October 2026, all-in including our service charge. Checked 29 August 2026 at 19:40 WAT and refreshed every six hours, so it may have moved since. Airline pricing changes constantly — your fare is confirmed live when you search and again before you pay. Other dates will differ.
What flying Lagos to London actually looks like
Lagos to London is the busiest long-haul route out of Nigeria, and it is also the one where the price gap between options is widest. British Airways and Virgin Atlantic have long flown Murtala Muhammed to Heathrow without a stop, and when you need to arrive fresh for a morning meeting that is what you want. But on almost every date we search, the cheapest fares on the board are one-stop itineraries, and the saving is rarely small.
The connecting carriers route you through their own hub — Doha, Istanbul, Casablanca, Nairobi, Addis Ababa, Cairo, Amsterdam or Paris — and the total journey is usually somewhere between ten and eighteen hours depending on how long you sit in the middle. That is the real trade-off on this route: a few hours of your day against a materially lower fare. We will show you both and let you decide rather than quietly sorting you into one.
- Fastest journey we see
- 9h 45m
- Nonstop service
- Not in the fares we currently see; every option connects once
Around 6h 30m in the air on a nonstop service. Connecting fares — which are usually the cheapest — run from about 9h 45m upward, via a single Middle Eastern, North African or European hub.
Airlines flying Lagos to London
These carriers were selling this route the last time we checked live availability. Schedules and airlines change through the year, and a live search always shows the current set rather than this list.
- Qatar Airways
- Turkish Airlines
- Royal Air Maroc
- Ethiopian Airlines
- Kenya Airways
- EgyptAir
- RwandAir
- KLM
- Air France
Before you book Lagos to London
You will need a UK visa before you fly
Nigerian passport holders need a visa for the United Kingdom, and it must be issued before departure — there is no visa on arrival. Applications are biometric and appointment slots in Lagos and Abuja get booked out well ahead of the summer and December peaks. Our visa desk prepares and checks the file before it goes in.
Heathrow is not the only London airport
Heathrow (LHR) is the main gateway and where the nonstops land, but Gatwick (LGW) sometimes prices lower on connecting itineraries. If your final destination is south or east of the city, ask us — the cheaper airport is not always the cheaper journey once you add the transfer.
Book earlier for December and August
Fares on this route move sharply around the Nigerian holiday travel peaks. December departures and the July–August school break are consistently the dearest weeks of the year, and they are also when award and cheap-bucket seats disappear first.
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Booked and ticketed in Nigeria
Rayonner Travels & Logistics Limited is an IATA Accredited Travel Agent, certified by the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority. Your ticket is issued on a real airline record, and there is a person in Abuja or Lagos to call if anything changes.
