MBA Mombasa

How deep the MBA board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from MBA. This reads the same 14 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, what the clock here does to a Gulf working day and which of the destinations shut at night, all of it computed on 2026-09-07 from AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics.

• 10of the 14 destinations are flown by one airline
• 7destinations run less than once a day
• 2destinations have four or more departures a day
• 21.4%of the destinations name Flight Alaska, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at MBA

14 airlines appear on the MBA board and they do not hold it evenly. Flight Alaska is on 3 of the 14 destinations, 21.4 per cent of them, and on 1 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 4.9 of the 38 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 Neos on 3 destinations. 9 of the 14 airlines at MBA 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.

No airline holds more than 21.4 per cent of the destinations here, which is the more comfortable shape of the two. A cancellation at a spread airport is usually a rebooking rather than a lost day, provided the sector itself carries more than one operator, and 10 of the 14 sectors at MBA do not.

How much of the MBA board is daily

Of the 14 destinations, 7 are flown at least once a day and 7 are not, 3 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the MBA 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: MBA to Verona (VRN) 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 33.4 of the 38 departures a day, 88 per cent of the whole board. On that arithmetic MBA 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
Düsseldorf DUS	Germany	TUI Airlines Nederland (Netherlands)	1	6,895	plan this
Rome FCO	Italy	Neos	1	5,799	plan this
Verona VRN	Italy	Neos	1	6,188	plan this
Arusha JRO	Tanzania	Flight Alaska	3	288	plan this
Dar es Salaam DAR	Tanzania	Skyward Express	3	319	plan this
Milan MXP	Italy	Neos	3	6,309	plan this
Kampala EBB	Uganda	Uganda Airlines	4	915	plan this

The seven destinations out of MBA 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 MBA

The desk holds the return direction for 10 of the 14 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On one of them the return into MBA runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gap is Frankfurt-am-Main (FRA) at 1.3 out a day against 0.71 back.

It runs the other way as well: Zanzibar (ZNZ) files 5.9 a day back into MBA against 3.1 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at MBA

MBA keeps Africa/Nairobi time, an hour behind Dubai all year.

When it is 09:00 on a Dubai working morning it is 08:00 at MBA, so a nine to six day at each end overlaps for eight hours. That is wide enough to settle a customs question at MBA and still make a departure the same day.

The night at MBA

2 of the destinations from here carry a documented night restriction of their own, which is a departure time question at this end rather than an arrival problem at the other.

Into Frankfurt-am-Main (FRA) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from MBA that lands inside it leaves around 15:25, on a modelled block of 8h 35m. Into Düsseldorf (DUS) the door shuts at 22:00 local, so the last departure from MBA that lands inside it leaves around 14:12, on a modelled block of 8h 48m. Those two departure times out of MBA are worked backwards from the published window with the block time model this site uses everywhere, 720 to 880 km an hour by sector length with thirty minutes on the ground, so they are arithmetic rather than a timetable and the desk checks the published departure before it promises the landing.

Where MBA turns up on the rest of this site

The airport also sits behind the Kenya country desk, which sets out the customs practice, the working week and the road legs behind this airport.

One courier posting names MBA as the airport a courier here flies from: Mombasa.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with MBA already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 14 destinations above.