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LUN Lusaka
Kenneth Kaunda, ZM. Scheduled destination network as held on 2026-09-07.
- Destinations
- 21
- Countries reached
- 12
- Airlines
- 13
- Departures a day
- 45.0
Where you can fly from LUN
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 | 8.14 | ZN, P0, 4Z, SA | 1,201 | plan this |
| Ndola NLA | ZM | 8 | ZN, P0 | 264 | plan this |
| Harare HRE | ZW | 5.43 | BP, EK, ET, KQ, ZN, QR and 3 more | 403 | plan this |
| Livingstone LVI | ZM | 5 | ZN, P0 | plan this | |
| Mfuwe MFU | ZM | 3.86 | P0 | plan this | |
| Solwesi SLI | ZM | 3 | P0 | plan this | |
| Addis Ababa ADD | ET | 2.29 | ET | 2,934 | plan this |
| Nairobi NBO | KE | 1.29 | KQ, ZN | 1,815 | plan this |
| 1.29 | P0 | plan this | |||
| Dubai DXB | the United Arab Emirates | 1.14 | EK | 5,372 | plan this |
| Dar es Salaam DAR | TZ | 1 | TC, ZN | 1,502 | plan this |
| Doha DOH | Qatar | 0.86 | QR | 5,164 | plan this |
| 0.86 | P0 | plan this | |||
| Kasama KAA | ZM | 0.71 | P0 | plan this | |
| Kampala EBB | UG | 0.57 | UR | 1,764 | plan this |
| Lilongwe LLW | MW | 0.43 | ET | 599 | plan this |
| Mansa MNS | ZM | 0.43 | P0 | plan this | |
| Gaborone GBE | BW | 0.29 | BP | 1,060 | plan this |
| Lubumbashi FBM | CD | 0.14 | TC | 428 | plan this |
| 0.14 | UR | plan this | |||
| 0.14 | RN | plan this |
One connection away
329 airports are reachable from LUN with exactly one change, on top of the 21 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cape Town CPT | South Africa | via JNB | 8.14 | plan this |
| Durban DUR | South Africa | via JNB | 8.14 | plan this |
| Port Elizabeth PLZ | South Africa | via JNB | 8.14 | 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 |
Alternate airports within reach
Airports within 400 km that also carry scheduled traffic. When a departure from LUN is cancelled or nothing suitable leaves that night, these are the options a desk looks at before it accepts a lost day.
- Ndola NLA264 km by great circle, 8 scheduled destinations
How deep the LUN board really is
The table above says where a courier can fly from LUN. This reads the same 17 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.
- 11of the 17 destinations are flown by one airline
- 7destinations run less than once a day
- 4destinations have four or more departures a day
- 41.2%of the destinations name Proflight Zambia, the largest presence here
Who holds the departures at LUN
13 airlines appear on the LUN board and they do not hold it evenly. Proflight Zambia is on 7 of the 17 destinations, 41.2 per cent of them, and on 4 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 29.1 of the 42.6 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 Naysa on 6 destinations. 4 of the 13 airlines at LUN 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 LUN: one airline on 41.2 per cent of the destinations and the other 58.8 per cent spread across 12 airlines. A cancellation inside the Proflight Zambia network is often survivable inside the same booking, but on the 10 destinations Proflight Zambia does not touch, a rebooking means moving to a carrier the desk has to check for a through fare first.
How much of the LUN board is daily
Of the 17 destinations, 10 are flown at least once a day and 7 are not, 1 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the LUN board is flown about once a day.
An average of 0.14 flights a day is the schedule statistic, and it is worth translating it before anything is promised to anybody: LUN to Lubumbashi (FBM) is about one a week, so a missed departure there is not a delay of hours, it is the next slot.
The five busiest destinations carry 30.4 of the 42.6 departures a day, 71.5 per cent of the whole board. More than half of everything that leaves LUN is aimed at those five places, 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 them is planned around a single departure time.
| Destination | Country | The only airline on it | Flights a week | km | Routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lubumbashi FBM | the Democratic Republic of the Congo | Air Tanzania | 1 | 428 | plan this |
| Gaborone GBE | Botswana | Air Botswana | 2 | 1,059 | plan this |
| Lilongwe LLW | Malawi | Ethiopian Airlines | 3 | 598 | plan this |
| Mansa MNS | Zambia | Proflight Zambia | 3 | 469 | plan this |
| Kampala EBB | Uganda | Uganda Airlines | 4 | 1,765 | plan this |
| Kasama KAA | Zambia | Proflight Zambia | 5 | 639 | plan this |
| Doha DOH | Qatar | Qatar Airways | 6 | 5,165 | plan this |
The seven destinations out of LUN 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 LUN
The desk holds the return direction for 11 of the 17 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On one of them the return into LUN runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gap is Dar es Salaam (DAR) at 1 out a day against 0.43 back.
It runs the other way as well: Lilongwe (LLW) files 0.71 a day back into LUN against 0.43 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.
The clock at LUN
LUN keeps Africa/Lusaka time, two hours behind Dubai all year.
When it is 09:00 on a Dubai working morning it is 07:00 at LUN, so a nine to six day at each end overlaps for seven hours. That is wide enough to settle a customs question at LUN and still make a departure the same day.
Where LUN turns up on the rest of this site
The airport also sits behind the Zambia 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 LUN already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 17 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 LUN 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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