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GBE Gaborone
Sir Seretse Khama, BW. Scheduled destination network as held on 2026-09-07.
- Destinations
- 7
- Countries reached
- 5
- Airlines
- 4
- Departures a day
- 14.7
Where you can fly from GBE
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 | 10.29 | BP, 4Z, SA | 291 | plan this |
| Addis Ababa ADD | ET | 1.14 | ET | 3,983 | plan this |
| Maun MUB | BW | 1.14 | BP | 571 | plan this |
| Cape Town CPT | South Africa | 1 | BP, 4Z | 1,263 | plan this |
| Francistown FRW | BW | 0.57 | BP | plan this | |
| Harare HRE | ZW | 0.29 | BP | 911 | plan this |
| Lusaka LUN | ZM | 0.29 | BP | 1,060 | plan this |
One connection away
151 airports are reachable from GBE with exactly one change, on top of the 7 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Durban DUR | South Africa | via JNB | 10.29 | plan this |
| Port Elizabeth PLZ | South Africa | via JNB | 10.29 | plan this |
| Bloemfontein BFN | South Africa | via JNB | 8.01 | plan this |
| MQP MQP | via JNB | 7.14 | plan this | |
| ELS ELS | via JNB | 7 | plan this | |
| GRJ GRJ | via JNB | 7 | plan this | |
| Windhoek WDH | NA | via JNB | 6.43 | plan this |
| VFA VFA | via JNB | 5.86 | plan this | |
| Maputo MPM | MZ | via JNB | 5.72 | plan this |
| Bulawayo BUQ | ZW | via JNB | 5.71 | plan this |
Alternate airports within reach
Airports within 400 km that also carry scheduled traffic. When a departure from GBE is cancelled or nothing suitable leaves that night, these are the options a desk looks at before it accepts a lost day.
- Johannesburg JNB291 km by great circle, 77 scheduled destinations
How deep the GBE board really is
The table above says where a courier can fly from GBE. This reads the same 7 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.
- 5of the 7 destinations are flown by one airline
- 3destinations run less than once a day
- 1destination has four or more departures a day
- 85.7%of the destinations name Air Botswana, the largest presence here
Who holds the departures at GBE
Four airlines appear on the GBE board and they do not hold it evenly. Air Botswana is on 6 of the 7 destinations, 85.7 per cent of them, and on 4 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 13.6 of the 14.7 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 South African Airlink on 2 destinations. 2 of the 4 airlines at GBE 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 6 of the 7 destinations on one airline, the second aircraft on a GBE sector is usually another Air Botswana 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 GBE than the destination count does.
How much of the GBE board is daily
Of the 7 destinations, 4 are flown at least once a day and 3 are not, though none of them drops to once a week or less. The median destination on the GBE 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: GBE to Lusaka (LUN) 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 14.1 of the 14.7 departures a day, 96.1 per cent of the whole board. On that arithmetic GBE 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.
| Destination | Country | The only airline on it | Flights a week | km | Routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harare HRE | Zimbabwe | Air Botswana | 2 | 911 | plan this |
| Lusaka LUN | Zambia | Air Botswana | 2 | 1,059 | plan this |
| Francistown FRW | Botswana | Air Botswana | 4 | 410 | plan this |
The three destinations out of GBE 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.
The way back from GBE
The desk holds the return direction for 5 of the 7 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On one of them the return into GBE runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gap is Maun (MUB) at 1.1 out a day against 0.71 back.
A return leg thinner than the outbound is the ordinary reason a same day round trip out of GBE turns into an overnight, and it is worth checking on each of those 1 sectors before the courier is committed rather than after.
The clock at GBE
GBE keeps Africa/Gaborone time, two hours behind Dubai all year.
When it is 09:00 on a Dubai working morning it is 07:00 at GBE, so a nine to six day at each end overlaps for seven hours. That is wide enough to settle a customs question at GBE and still make a departure the same day.
Where GBE turns up on the rest of this site
The airport also sits behind the Botswana country desk, which sets out the customs practice, the working week and the road legs behind this airport.
To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with GBE already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 7 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 GBE 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.
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