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APL Nampula
Nampula Airport, MZ. Scheduled destination network as held on 2026-09-07.
- Destinations
- 8
- Countries reached
- 4
- Airlines
- 3
- Departures a day
- 6.1
Where you can fly from APL
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maputo MPM | MZ | 2.29 | TM | 1,390 | plan this |
| Beira BEW | MZ | 1.14 | TM | 698 | plan this |
| Lichinga VXC | MZ | 0.71 | TM | plan this | |
| Nairobi NBO | KE | 0.57 | KQ | 1,555 | plan this |
| Jo'anna JNB | South Africa | 0.43 | 4Z | 1,678 | plan this |
| Pemba / Porto Amelia POL | MZ | 0.43 | TM | 271 | plan this |
| Lilongwe LLW | MW | 0.29 | KQ | 610 | plan this |
| Tete TET | MZ | 0.29 | TM | plan this |
One connection away
103 airports are reachable from APL 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Addis Ababa ADD | ET | via MPM | 1.14 | plan this |
| VPY VPY | via MPM | 1.14 | plan this | |
| Durban DUR | South Africa | via MPM | 1.14 | plan this |
| UEL UEL | via MPM | 1 | plan this | |
| MNC MNC | via MPM | 0.71 | plan this | |
| Cape Town CPT | South Africa | via MPM | 0.71 | plan this |
| Doha DOH | Qatar | via MPM | 0.71 | plan this |
| INH INH | via MPM | 0.57 | plan this | |
| Luanda NBJ | AO | via MPM | 0.57 | plan this |
| VNX VNX | via MPM | 0.57 | plan this |
Alternate airports within reach
Airports within 400 km that also carry scheduled traffic. When a departure from APL is cancelled or nothing suitable leaves that night, these are the options a desk looks at before it accepts a lost day.
- Pemba POL271 km by great circle, 6 scheduled destinations
How deep the APL board really is
The table above says where a courier can fly from APL. 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.
- 8of the 8 destinations are flown by one airline
- 6destinations run less than once a day
- 0destinations have four or more departures a day
- 62.5%of the destinations name LAM, the largest presence here
Who holds the departures at APL
Three airlines appear on the APL board and they do not hold it evenly. LAM is on 5 of the 8 destinations, 62.5 per cent of them, and on 5 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 4.9 of the 6.1 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 Kenya Airways on 2 destinations. 1 of the 3 airlines at APL 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 5 of the 8 destinations on one airline, the second aircraft on an APL 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 APL than the destination count does.
How much of the APL board is daily
Of the 8 destinations, 2 are flown at least once a day and 6 are not, though none of them drops to once a week or less. The median destination on the APL board is flown 4 times a week.
An average of 0.29 flights a day is the schedule statistic, and it is worth translating it before anything is promised to anybody: APL to Tete (TET) is 2 a week, so a missed departure there is not a delay of hours, it is the next slot.
The five busiest destinations carry 5.1 of the 6.1 departures a day, 83.6 per cent of the whole board. On that arithmetic APL 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lilongwe LLW | Malawi | Kenya Airways | 2 | 610 | plan this |
| Tete TET | Mozambique | LAM | 2 | 614 | plan this |
| Jo'anna JNB | South Africa | South African Airlink | 3 | 1,678 | plan this |
| Pemba / Porto Amelia POL | Mozambique | LAM | 3 | 271 | plan this |
| Nairobi NBO | Kenya | Kenya Airways | 4 | 1,555 | plan this |
| Lichinga VXC | Mozambique | LAM | 5 | 478 | plan this |
The six destinations out of APL 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 APL
The desk holds the return direction for 6 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 APL runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gaps are Nairobi (NBO) at 0.57 out a day against 0.14 back and Pemba / Porto Amelia (POL) at 0.43 out a day against 0.14 back.
It runs the other way as well: Lilongwe (LLW) files 0.57 a day back into APL against 0.29 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.
The clock at APL
APL 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 APL, so a nine to six day at each end overlaps for seven hours. That is wide enough to settle a customs question at APL and still make a departure the same day.
Where APL 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 APL 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 APL 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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