DAR Dar es Salaam

How deep the DAR board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from DAR. This reads the same 37 destinations back for the questions a dispatcher asks second: how much of the board rests on one airline, how much of it runs less than daily, whether the return leg is as thick as the outbound, what the clock here does to a Gulf working day and which of the destinations shut at night, all of it computed on 2026-09-07 from AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics.

• 25of the 37 destinations are flown by one airline
• 17destinations run less than once a day
• 5destinations have four or more departures a day
• 70.3%of the destinations name Air Tanzania, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at DAR

22 airlines appear on the DAR board and they do not hold it evenly. Air Tanzania is on 26 of the 37 destinations, 70.3 per cent of them, and on 16 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 62.9 of the 80 departures a day this airport files, though other airlines fly some of the same sectors, so read that as reach rather than as a share of the aircraft.

The next largest presence is Auric Air on 4 destinations. 13 of the 22 airlines at DAR appear on a single destination each, which is the long tail every airport carries, and none of it is a rebooking option when the sector you need is the one that fell over.

An airport held this tightly is quick to book and slow to recover: with 26 of the 37 destinations on one airline, the second aircraft on a DAR sector is usually another Air Tanzania aircraft, and when there is not one the desk is looking at another airport rather than another airline. That is why the alternate airports listed above matter more at DAR than the destination count does.

How much of the DAR board is daily

Of the 37 destinations, 20 are flown at least once a day and 17 are not, though none of them drops to once a week or less. The median destination on the DAR board is flown about once a day.

An average of 0.29 flights a day is the schedule statistic, and it is worth translating it before anything is promised to anybody: DAR to Pemba / Porto Amelia (POL) is 2 a week, so a missed departure there is not a delay of hours, it is the next slot.

The five busiest destinations carry 44.9 of the 80 departures a day, 56 per cent of the whole board. More than half of everything that leaves DAR is aimed at those five places, so the depth on the board above is thinner than the destination count suggests, and a hand carry that is not going to one of them is planned around a single departure time.

Destination	Country	The only airline on it	Flights a week	km	Routing
Dzaoudzi DZA	Mayotte	EWA Air	2	937	plan this
Pemba / Porto Amelia POL	Mozambique	LAM	2	695	plan this
Bujumbura BJM	Burundi	Air Tanzania	3	1,164	plan this
Guangzhou CAN	China	Air Tanzania	3	8,711	plan this
Lagos LOS	Nigeria	Air Tanzania	3	4,253	the pair page
Mombasa MBA	Kenya	Skyward Express	3	319	plan this
Moroni HAH	Comoros	Air Tanzania	3	684	plan this
Ndola NLA	Zambia	Air Tanzania	3	1,352	plan this
Victoria Falls VFA	Zimbabwe	Air Tanzania	3	1,911	plan this
Cairo CAI	Egypt	EgyptAir	4	4,198	the pair page

The ten destinations out of DAR where one airline holds the sector and files fewer than seven departures a week, with the weekly figure taken as the average daily rate multiplied by seven rather than as a fixed timetable. 5 further destinations sit in the same position and are listed in the board above.

The way back from DAR

The desk holds the return direction for 22 of the 37 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On nine of them the return into DAR runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gaps are Jo'anna (JNB) at 2.9 out a day against 0.79 back, Guangzhou (CAN) at 0.43 out a day against 0.14 back and Harare (HRE) at 1.1 out a day against 0.43 back.

It runs the other way as well: Zanzibar (ZNZ) files 34.6 a day back into DAR against 22.9 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at DAR

DAR keeps Africa/Dar_es_Salaam time, an hour behind Dubai all year.

When it is 09:00 on a Dubai working morning it is 08:00 at DAR, so a nine to six day at each end overlaps for eight hours. That is wide enough to settle a customs question at DAR and still make a departure the same day.

The night at DAR

1 of the destinations from here carry a documented night restriction of their own, which is a departure time question at this end rather than an arrival problem at the other.

Into Amsterdam (AMS) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from DAR that lands inside it leaves around 14:39, on a modelled block of 9h 21m. Those one departure times out of DAR are worked backwards from the published window with the block time model this site uses everywhere, 720 to 880 km an hour by sector length with thirty minutes on the ground, so they are arithmetic rather than a timetable and the desk checks the published departure before it promises the landing.

Where DAR turns up on the rest of this site

The airport also sits behind the Tanzania country desk, which sets out the customs practice, the working week and the road legs behind this airport.

The site publishes 9 airport pair pages that start or end at DAR, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are Dar es Salaam to Zanzibar (ZNZ), Dar es Salaam to Nairobi (NBO) and Dar es Salaam to Addis Ababa (ADD).

One of the 346 published hand carry lanes runs through this airport: Doha to Dar es Salaam. A lane page is the commercial version of the board above, with the customs, the ground legs and the price at DAR written out.

One courier posting names DAR as the airport a courier here flies from: Dar es Salaam.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with DAR already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 37 destinations above.