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HRE Harare
Robert Gabriel Mugabe, ZW. Scheduled destination network as held on 2026-09-07.
- Destinations
- 14
- Countries reached
- 10
- Airlines
- 15
- Departures a day
- 36.4
Where you can fly from HRE
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 | 14.39 | FN, FA, 4Z, SA, UM | 958 | plan this |
| Lusaka LUN | ZM | 5.57 | BP, TC, EK, ET, KQ, ZN and 3 more | 403 | plan this |
| Victoria Falls VFA | ZW | 4.29 | UM, FN | plan this | |
| Bulawayo BUQ | ZW | 3.57 | UM, FN | 349 | plan this |
| Addis Ababa ADD | ET | 2.29 | ET | 3,110 | plan this |
| Cape Town CPT | South Africa | 1.14 | 4Z | 2,172 | plan this |
| Durban DUR | South Africa | 1.14 | 4Z | 1,299 | plan this |
| Kampala EBB | UG | 0.71 | UR | 2,004 | plan this |
| Kigali KGL | RW | 0.71 | WB | 1,778 | plan this |
| Lilongwe LLW | MW | 0.71 | ET | 543 | plan this |
| Nairobi NBO | KE | 0.71 | KQ | 1,954 | plan this |
| Dar es Salaam DAR | TZ | 0.43 | UM | 1,511 | plan this |
| 0.43 | RN | plan this | |||
| Gaborone GBE | BW | 0.29 | BP | 911 | plan this |
One connection away
171 airports are reachable from HRE 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Port Elizabeth PLZ | South Africa | via JNB | 12.14 | plan this |
| Bloemfontein BFN | South Africa | via JNB | 8.01 | plan this |
| MQP MQP | via JNB | 7.14 | plan this | |
| GRJ GRJ | via JNB | 7 | plan this | |
| ELS ELS | via JNB | 7 | plan this | |
| Windhoek WDH | NA | via JNB | 6.43 | plan this |
| Maputo MPM | MZ | via JNB | 5.72 | plan this |
| Ndola NLA | ZM | via LUN | 5.57 | plan this |
| LVI LVI | via LUN | 5 | plan this | |
| KIM KIM | via JNB | 4.86 | plan this |
Alternate airports within reach
Airports within 400 km that also carry scheduled traffic. When a departure from HRE is cancelled or nothing suitable leaves that night, these are the options a desk looks at before it accepts a lost day.
- Bulawayo BUQ349 km by great circle, 4 scheduled destinations
How deep the HRE board really is
The table above says where a courier can fly from HRE. This reads the same 13 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.
- 9of the 13 destinations are flown by one airline
- 6destinations run less than once a day
- 3destinations have four or more departures a day
- 30.8%of the destinations name Air Zimbabwe, the largest presence here
Who holds the departures at HRE
15 airlines appear on the HRE board and they do not hold it evenly. Air Zimbabwe is on 4 of the 13 destinations, 30.8 per cent of them, and on 1 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 22.7 of the 36 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 Fastjet Zimbabwe on 3 destinations. 8 of the 15 airlines at HRE 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.
That is a middling concentration at HRE: one airline on 30.8 per cent of the destinations and the other 69.2 per cent spread across 14 airlines. A cancellation inside the Air Zimbabwe network is often survivable inside the same booking, but on the 9 destinations Air Zimbabwe does not touch, a rebooking means moving to a carrier the desk has to check for a through fare first.
How much of the HRE board is daily
Of the 13 destinations, 7 are flown at least once a day and 6 are not, though none of them drops to once a week or less. The median destination on the HRE 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: HRE to Gaborone (GBE) 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 30.1 of the 36 departures a day, 83.8 per cent of the whole board. On that arithmetic HRE 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gaborone GBE | Botswana | Air Botswana | 2 | 911 | plan this |
| Dar es Salaam DAR | Tanzania | Air Zimbabwe | 3 | 1,511 | plan this |
| Kampala EBB | Uganda | Uganda Airlines | 5 | 2,004 | plan this |
| Kigali KGL | Rwanda | RwandAir | 5 | 1,778 | plan this |
| Lilongwe LLW | Malawi | Ethiopian Airlines | 5 | 543 | plan this |
| Nairobi NBO | Kenya | Kenya Airways | 5 | 1,954 | plan this |
The six destinations out of HRE 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 HRE
The desk holds the return direction for 11 of the 13 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On one of them the return into HRE runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gap is Lilongwe (LLW) at 0.71 out a day against 0.43 back.
It runs the other way as well: Dar es Salaam (DAR) files 1.1 a day back into HRE against 0.43 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.
The clock at HRE
HRE keeps Africa/Harare time, two hours behind Dubai all year.
When it is 09:00 on a Dubai working morning it is 07:00 at HRE, so a nine to six day at each end overlaps for seven hours. That is wide enough to settle a customs question at HRE and still make a departure the same day.
Where HRE turns up on the rest of this site
The airport also sits behind the Zimbabwe 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 HRE already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 13 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 HRE 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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