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LLW Lilongwe
Kamuzu International, MW. Scheduled destination network as held on 2026-09-07.
- Destinations
- 8
- Countries reached
- 8
- Airlines
- 3
- Departures a day
- 8.7
Where you can fly from LLW
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blantyre BLZ | MW | 2.71 | ET | 246 | plan this |
| Jo'anna JNB | South Africa | 1.48 | 4Z, ET | 1,489 | plan this |
| Addis Ababa ADD | ET | 1.14 | ET | 2,592 | plan this |
| Nairobi NBO | KE | 1.14 | ET, KQ | 1,429 | plan this |
| Lusaka LUN | ZM | 0.71 | ET | 599 | plan this |
| Kampala EBB | UG | 0.57 | ET | 1,545 | plan this |
| Nampula APL | MZ | 0.57 | KQ | 610 | plan this |
| Harare HRE | ZW | 0.43 | ET | 543 | plan this |
One connection away
163 airports are reachable from LLW with exactly one change, on top of the 8 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| VFA VFA | via JNB | 1.48 | plan this | |
| Bulawayo BUQ | ZW | via JNB | 1.48 | plan this |
| Cape Town CPT | South Africa | via JNB | 1.48 | plan this |
| Durban DUR | South Africa | via JNB | 1.48 | plan this |
| Gaborone GBE | BW | via JNB | 1.48 | plan this |
| Maputo MPM | MZ | via JNB | 1.48 | plan this |
| Pemba POL | MZ | via JNB | 1.48 | plan this |
| Ndola NLA | ZM | via JNB | 1.48 | plan this |
| Dubai DXB | the United Arab Emirates | via JNB | 1.48 | plan this |
| Doha DOH | Qatar | via JNB | 1.48 | plan this |
Alternate airports within reach
Airports within 400 km that also carry scheduled traffic. When a departure from LLW is cancelled or nothing suitable leaves that night, these are the options a desk looks at before it accepts a lost day.
- Blantyre BLZ246 km by great circle, 5 scheduled destinations
How deep the LLW board really is
The table above says where a courier can fly from LLW. This reads the same 8 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.
- 6of the 8 destinations are flown by one airline
- 4destinations run less than once a day
- 0destinations have four or more departures a day
- 87.5%of the destinations name Ethiopian Airlines, the largest presence here
Who holds the departures at LLW
Three airlines appear on the LLW board and they do not hold it evenly. Ethiopian Airlines is on 7 of the 8 destinations, 87.5 per cent of them, and on 5 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 8.2 of the 8.7 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 Kenya Airways on 2 destinations. 1 of the 3 airlines at LLW appears on a single destination, 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 7 of the 8 destinations on one airline, the second aircraft on an LLW sector is usually another Ethiopian Airlines 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 LLW than the destination count does.
How much of the LLW board is daily
Of the 8 destinations, 4 are flown at least once a day and 4 are not, though none of them drops to once a week or less. The median destination on the LLW board is flown about once a day.
An average of 0.43 flights a day is the schedule statistic, and it is worth translating it before anything is promised to anybody: LLW to Harare (HRE) is 3 a week, so a missed departure there is not a delay of hours, it is the next slot.
The five busiest destinations carry 7.2 of the 8.7 departures a day, 82.1 per cent of the whole board. On that arithmetic LLW 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 | Ethiopian Airlines | 3 | 543 | plan this |
| Kampala EBB | Uganda | Ethiopian Airlines | 4 | 1,545 | plan this |
| Nampula APL | Mozambique | Kenya Airways | 4 | 610 | plan this |
| Lusaka LUN | Zambia | Ethiopian Airlines | 5 | 599 | plan this |
The four destinations out of LLW 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 LLW
The desk holds the return direction for 8 of the 8 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On two of them the return into LLW runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gaps are Nampula (APL) at 0.57 out a day against 0.29 back and Lusaka (LUN) at 0.71 out a day against 0.43 back.
It runs the other way as well: Nairobi (NBO) files 1.6 a day back into LLW against 1.1 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.
The clock at LLW
LLW keeps Africa/Blantyre time, two hours behind Dubai all year.
When it is 09:00 on a Dubai working morning it is 07:00 at LLW, so a nine to six day at each end overlaps for seven hours. That is wide enough to settle a customs question at LLW and still make a departure the same day.
Where LLW turns up on the rest of this site
The airport also sits behind the Malawi 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 LLW already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 8 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 LLW 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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