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DUR Durban
King Shaka International, South Africa. Scheduled destination network as held on 2026-09-07.
- Destinations
- 14
- Countries reached
- 4
- Airlines
- 11
- Departures a day
- 60.3
Where you can fly from DUR
Every scheduled destination held for this airport, ordered by how often it is flown. Distances are great circle, computed from published coordinates.
| Destination | Country | Flights a day | Operated by | km | Routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jo'anna JNB | South Africa | 35 | 5Z, W2, GE, FA, 4Z, SA and 1 more | 479 | plan this |
| Cape Town CPT | South Africa | 13.14 | 5Z, GE, RN, FA | 1,277 | plan this |
| Port Elizabeth PLZ | South Africa | 2.86 | 5Z, FA, 4Z | 711 | plan this |
| Bloemfontain BFN | South Africa | 1.29 | 5Z | 471 | plan this |
| Dubai DXB | the United Arab Emirates | 1.14 | EK | 6,626 | plan this |
| Harare HRE | ZW | 1.14 | 4Z | 1,299 | plan this |
| Maputo MPM | MZ | 1.14 | QR | 434 | plan this |
| Mpumalanga MQP | South Africa | 1.14 | 4Z | plan this | |
| George GRJ | South Africa | 1 | 5Z | plan this | |
| East London ELS | South Africa | 0.86 | FA | plan this | |
| 0.57 | TK | plan this | |||
| 0.57 | RN | plan this | |||
| Jo'anna HLA | South Africa | 0.29 | Flysafair | plan this | |
| 0.14 | 5Z | plan this |
One connection away
261 airports are reachable from DUR with exactly one change, on top of the 14 nonstop. The ten below are the ones with the most frequency on the weaker of the two sectors, which is the leg that decides whether a same day connection holds. Computed from the scheduled network, not from a booking engine.
| Destination | Country | Best connection | Flights a day on the weaker leg | Routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gaborone GBE | BW | via JNB | 11 | plan this |
| Lusaka LUN | ZM | via JNB | 8.57 | plan this |
| Windhoek WDH | NA | via JNB | 6.43 | plan this |
| VFA VFA | via JNB | 5.86 | plan this | |
| Bulawayo BUQ | ZW | via JNB | 5.71 | plan this |
| KIM KIM | via JNB | 4.86 | plan this | |
| HDS HDS | via JNB | 4.43 | plan this | |
| PZB PZB | via JNB | 4 | plan this | |
| Nairobi NBO | KE | via JNB | 3.86 | plan this |
| Maun MUB | BW | via JNB | 3.44 | plan this |
Alternate airports within reach
Airports within 400 km that also carry scheduled traffic. When a departure from DUR is cancelled or nothing suitable leaves that night, these are the options a desk looks at before it accepts a lost day.
How deep the DUR board really is
The table above says where a courier can fly from DUR. This reads the same 11 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 and what the clock here does to a Gulf working day, all of it computed on 2026-09-07 from AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics.
- 8of the 11 destinations are flown by one airline
- 2destinations run less than once a day
- 2destinations have four or more departures a day
- 45.5%of the destinations name CemAir, the largest presence here
Who holds the departures at DUR
Eleven airlines appear on the DUR board and they do not hold it evenly. CemAir is on 5 of the 11 destinations, 45.5 per cent of them, and on 2 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 53.3 of the 59 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 Safair on 4 destinations. 7 of the 11 airlines at DUR 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 5 of the 11 destinations on one airline, the second aircraft on a DUR sector is usually another CemAir 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 DUR than the destination count does.
How much of the DUR board is daily
Of the 11 destinations, 9 are flown at least once a day and 2 are not, though none of them drops to once a week or less. The median destination on the DUR 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: DUR to Jo'anna (HLA) 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 53.4 of the 59 departures a day, 90.6 per cent of the whole board. On that arithmetic DUR is five sectors and a short tail, 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 those five is planned around a single departure time.
The way back from DUR
The desk holds the return direction for 7 of the 11 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On none of those 7 does the return run more than a quarter thinner than the outbound, so a turnaround through DUR is a question of hours rather than of whether an aircraft exists.
The clock at DUR
DUR keeps Africa/Johannesburg time, two hours behind Dubai all year.
When it is 09:00 on a Dubai working morning it is 07:00 at DUR, so a nine to six day at each end overlaps for seven hours. That is wide enough to settle a customs question at DUR and still make a departure the same day.
Where DUR turns up on the rest of this site
The airport also sits behind the South Africa country desk, which sets out the customs practice, the working week and the road legs behind this airport.
One courier posting names DUR as the airport a courier here flies from: Durban.
To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with DUR already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 11 destinations above.
Where this came from
- Destination network, airlines and frequencies: AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics, retrieved 2026-09-07.
- Airport names and coordinates: the OnBoard Courier airport reference list.
- Distances: great circle, computed from those coordinates. They are not flown distances and will read short against a real routing.
- Industrial sites: public company information. Nothing on this page states or implies that any company named is a customer of any courier operator.
Who publishes this. OnBoard Courier is a placement desk in Dubai. An assignment through DUR is carried out by a vetted partner operator, with the desk as the single point of contact from the quote to the signature. We keep the Atlas because our own desk needs it when there are twenty minutes to find a routing, and we publish it because a reference only one operator can read is not a reference. Free to read, quote and cite, including by competing operators. Found an error? Tell us and we will correct the entry.
If you need something moved rather than looked up, the desk prices a hand carry in fifteen minutes. If you fly often and want to carry, we are recruiting couriers.