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Simon Mwansa Kapwepwe International, ZM. Scheduled destination network as held on 2026-09-07.
- Destinations
- 8
- Countries reached
- 6
- Airlines
- 6
- Departures a day
- 11.8
Where you can fly from NLA
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lusaka LUN | ZM | 6.71 | ZN, P0 | 264 | plan this |
| Jo'anna JNB | South Africa | 1.57 | 4Z | 1,465 | plan this |
| Solwesi SLI | ZM | 1 | ZN | plan this | |
| Bulawayo BUQ | ZW | 0.71 | ET | 785 | plan this |
| Lubumbashi FBM | CD | 0.71 | TC, KQ | 186 | plan this |
| Addis Ababa ADD | ET | 0.43 | ET | 2,691 | plan this |
| Mansa MNS | ZM | 0.43 | P0 | plan this | |
| Nairobi NBO | KE | 0.29 | KQ | 1,592 | plan this |
One connection away
164 airports are reachable from NLA 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harare HRE | ZW | via LUN | 5.43 | plan this |
| LVI LVI | via LUN | 5 | plan this | |
| MFU MFU | via LUN | 3.86 | plan this | |
| VFA VFA | via JNB | 1.57 | plan this | |
| Dubai DXB | the United Arab Emirates | via JNB | 1.57 | plan this |
| Doha DOH | Qatar | via JNB | 1.57 | plan this |
| Lilongwe LLW | MW | via JNB | 1.57 | plan this |
| Gaborone GBE | BW | via JNB | 1.57 | plan this |
| London LHR | the United Kingdom | via JNB | 1.57 | plan this |
| Frankfurt FRA | Germany | via JNB | 1.57 | plan this |
Alternate airports within reach
Airports within 400 km that also carry scheduled traffic. When a departure from NLA is cancelled or nothing suitable leaves that night, these are the options a desk looks at before it accepts a lost day.
- Lubumbashi FBM186 km by great circle, 6 scheduled destinations
- Lusaka LUN264 km by great circle, 17 scheduled destinations
How deep the NLA board really is
The table above says where a courier can fly from NLA. 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 and what the clock here does to a Gulf working day, all of it computed on 2026-09-07 from AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics.
- 6of the 8 destinations are flown by one airline
- 5destinations run less than once a day
- 1destination has four or more departures a day
- 25%of the destinations name Naysa, the largest presence here
Who holds the departures at NLA
Six airlines appear on the NLA board and they do not hold it evenly. Naysa is on 2 of the 8 destinations, 25 per cent of them, and on 1 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 7.7 of the 11.8 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 Proflight Zambia on 2 destinations. 2 of the 6 airlines at NLA 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 NLA: one airline on 25 per cent of the destinations and the other 75 per cent spread across 5 airlines. A cancellation inside the Naysa network is often survivable inside the same booking, but on the 6 destinations Naysa does not touch, a rebooking means moving to a carrier the desk has to check for a through fare first.
How much of the NLA board is daily
Of the 8 destinations, 3 are flown at least once a day and 5 are not, though none of them drops to once a week or less. The median destination on the NLA board is flown 5 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: NLA to Nairobi (NBO) 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 10.7 of the 11.8 departures a day, 90.3 per cent of the whole board. On that arithmetic NLA 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nairobi NBO | Kenya | Kenya Airways | 2 | 1,592 | plan this |
| Addis Ababa ADD | Ethiopia | Ethiopian Airlines | 3 | 2,691 | plan this |
| Mansa MNS | Zambia | Proflight Zambia | 3 | 207 | plan this |
| Bulawayo BUQ | Zimbabwe | Ethiopian Airlines | 5 | 784 | plan this |
The four destinations out of NLA 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 clock at NLA
NLA 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 NLA, so a nine to six day at each end overlaps for seven hours. That is wide enough to settle a customs question at NLA and still make a departure the same day.
Where NLA 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 NLA 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 NLA 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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