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FBM Lubumbashi
Luano International, CD. Scheduled destination network as held on 2026-09-07.
- Destinations
- 7
- Countries reached
- 4
- Airlines
- 6
- Departures a day
- 11.3
Where you can fly from FBM
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kinshasa FIH | CD | 4.86 | BU, ET | 1,553 | plan this |
| Jo'anna JNB | South Africa | 2.3 | 4Z, SA, ET | 1,618 | plan this |
| Addis Ababa ADD | ET | 2.14 | ET | 2,605 | plan this |
| Mbuji Mayi MJM | CD | 0.71 | BU, ET | plan this | |
| Dar es Salaam DAR | TZ | 0.57 | TC | 1,383 | plan this |
| Kananga KGA | CD | 0.43 | ET | plan this | |
| 0.29 | KQ | plan this |
One connection away
167 airports are reachable from FBM 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Luanda NBJ | AO | via JNB | 2.3 | plan this |
| Nairobi NBO | KE | via JNB | 2.3 | plan this |
| Dubai DXB | the United Arab Emirates | via JNB | 2.3 | plan this |
| Harare HRE | ZW | via JNB | 2.3 | plan this |
| Lusaka LUN | ZM | via JNB | 2.3 | plan this |
| VFA VFA | via JNB | 2.3 | plan this | |
| Maputo MPM | MZ | via JNB | 2.3 | plan this |
| Windhoek WDH | NA | via JNB | 2.3 | plan this |
| Maun MUB | BW | via JNB | 2.3 | plan this |
| Mauritius MRU | MU | via JNB | 2.3 | plan this |
Alternate airports within reach
Airports within 400 km that also carry scheduled traffic. When a departure from FBM is cancelled or nothing suitable leaves that night, these are the options a desk looks at before it accepts a lost day.
- Ndola NLA186 km by great circle, 8 scheduled destinations
How deep the FBM board really is
The table above says where a courier can fly from FBM. This reads the same 6 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 and what the clock here does to a Gulf working day, all of it computed on 2026-09-07 from AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics.
- 3of the 6 destinations are flown by one airline
- 3destinations run less than once a day
- 1destination has four or more departures a day
- 83.3%of the destinations name Ethiopian Airlines, the largest presence here
Who holds the departures at FBM
Five airlines appear on the FBM board and they do not hold it evenly. Ethiopian Airlines is on 5 of the 6 destinations, 83.3 per cent of them, and on 2 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 10.4 of the 11 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 CAA on 2 destinations. 3 of the 5 airlines at FBM 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 6 destinations on one airline, the second aircraft on an FBM 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 FBM than the destination count does.
How much of the FBM board is daily
Of the 6 destinations, 3 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 FBM board is flown about twice 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: FBM to Kananga (KGA) 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 10.6 of the 11 departures a day, 96.1 per cent of the whole board. On that arithmetic FBM 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 clock at FBM
FBM keeps Africa/Lubumbashi time, two hours behind Dubai all year.
When it is 09:00 on a Dubai working morning it is 07:00 at FBM, so a nine to six day at each end overlaps for seven hours. That is wide enough to settle a customs question at FBM and still make a departure the same day.
Where FBM turns up on the rest of this site
The airport also sits behind the Democratic Republic of the Congo 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 FBM already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 6 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 FBM 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.