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MPM Maputo
Maputo International, MZ. Scheduled destination network as held on 2026-09-07.
- Destinations
- 17
- Countries reached
- 6
- Airlines
- 7
- Departures a day
- 22.4
Where you can fly from MPM
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 | 5.86 | TM, 4Z, TK | 433 | plan this |
| Tete TET | MZ | 2.29 | TM | plan this | |
| Beira BEW | MZ | 2.14 | TM | 721 | plan this |
| Nampula APL | MZ | 2.14 | TM | 1,390 | plan this |
| Addis Ababa ADD | ET | 1.14 | ET | 3,939 | plan this |
| Chimoio VPY | MZ | 1.14 | TM | plan this | |
| Durban DUR | South Africa | 1.14 | QR | 434 | plan this |
| Pemba / Porto Amelia POL | MZ | 1 | TM | 1,661 | plan this |
| Quelimane UEL | MZ | 1 | TM | plan this | |
| Cape Town CPT | South Africa | 0.71 | 4Z | 1,613 | plan this |
| Cidade de Nacala MNC | MZ | 0.71 | TM | plan this | |
| Doha DOH | Qatar | 0.71 | QR | 6,047 | plan this |
| Inhambabe INH | MZ | 0.57 | TM | plan this | |
| Luanda NBJ | AO | 0.57 | DT | 2,750 | plan this |
| Vilanculo VNX | MZ | 0.57 | TM | plan this | |
| Lisbon LIS | Portugal | 0.43 | TP | 8,400 | plan this |
| 0.29 | TK | plan this |
One connection away
336 airports are reachable from MPM with exactly one change, on top of the 17 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 | 5.86 | plan this |
| GRJ GRJ | via JNB | 5.86 | plan this | |
| MQP MQP | via JNB | 5.86 | plan this | |
| Windhoek WDH | NA | via JNB | 5.86 | plan this |
| ELS ELS | via JNB | 5.86 | plan this | |
| Bloemfontein BFN | South Africa | via JNB | 5.86 | plan this |
| VFA VFA | via JNB | 5.86 | plan this | |
| Harare HRE | ZW | via JNB | 5.86 | plan this |
| Gaborone GBE | BW | via JNB | 5.86 | plan this |
| Lusaka LUN | ZM | via JNB | 5.86 | plan this |
Alternate airports within reach
Airports within 400 km that also carry scheduled traffic. When a departure from MPM is cancelled or nothing suitable leaves that night, these are the options a desk looks at before it accepts a lost day.
- Manzini SHO98 km by great circle, 4 scheduled destinations
How deep the MPM board really is
The table above says where a courier can fly from MPM. This reads the same 16 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.
- 15of the 16 destinations are flown by one airline
- 7destinations run less than once a day
- 1destination has four or more departures a day
- 62.5%of the destinations name LAM, the largest presence here
Who holds the departures at MPM
Seven airlines appear on the MPM board and they do not hold it evenly. LAM is on 10 of the 16 destinations, 62.5 per cent of them, and on 9 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 17.4 of the 22.1 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. 4 of the 7 airlines at MPM 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 10 of the 16 destinations on one airline, the second aircraft on an MPM sector is usually another LAM 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 MPM than the destination count does.
How much of the MPM board is daily
Of the 16 destinations, 9 are flown at least once a day and 7 are not, though none of them drops to once a week or less. The median destination on the MPM 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: MPM to Lisbon (LIS) 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 13.6 of the 22.1 departures a day, 61.3 per cent of the whole board. More than half of everything that leaves MPM 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lisbon LIS | Portugal | TAP Air Portugal | 3 | 8,400 | plan this |
| Inhambabe INH | Mozambique | LAM | 4 | 365 | plan this |
| Luanda NBJ | Angola | TAAG | 4 | 2,751 | plan this |
| Vilanculo VNX | Mozambique | LAM | 4 | 516 | plan this |
| Cape Town CPT | South Africa | South African Airlink | 5 | 1,614 | plan this |
| Cidade de Nacala MNC | Mozambique | LAM | 5 | 1,528 | plan this |
| Doha DOH | Qatar | Qatar Airways | 5 | 6,048 | plan this |
The seven destinations out of MPM 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 MPM
The desk holds the return direction for 10 of the 16 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On none of those 10 does the return run more than a quarter thinner than the outbound, so a turnaround through MPM is a question of hours rather than of whether an aircraft exists.
It runs the other way as well: Doha (DOH) files 1.1 a day back into MPM against 0.71 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.
The clock at MPM
MPM keeps Africa/Maputo time, two hours behind Dubai all year.
When it is 09:00 on a Dubai working morning it is 07:00 at MPM, so a nine to six day at each end overlaps for seven hours. That is wide enough to settle a customs question at MPM and still make a departure the same day.
Where MPM turns up on the rest of this site
The airport also sits behind the Mozambique 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 MPM already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 16 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 MPM 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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