ZNZ Zanzibar

How deep the ZNZ board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from ZNZ. This reads the same 27 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.

• 18of the 27 destinations are flown by one airline
• 17destinations run less than once a day
• 5destinations have four or more departures a day
• 22.2%of the destinations name Air Tanzania, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at ZNZ

28 airlines appear on the ZNZ board and they do not hold it evenly. Air Tanzania is on 6 of the 27 destinations, 22.2 per cent of them, and on 2 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 68 of the 91.7 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 6 destinations. 16 of the 28 airlines at ZNZ 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 22.2 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 18 of the 27 sectors at ZNZ do not.

How much of the ZNZ board is daily

Of the 27 destinations, 10 are flown at least once a day and 17 are not, 10 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the ZNZ board is flown 4.1 times a week.

An average of 0.14 flights a day is the schedule statistic, and it is worth translating it before anything is promised to anybody: ZNZ 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 73.6 of the 91.7 departures a day, 80.2 per cent of the whole board. On that arithmetic ZNZ 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
Bari BRI	Italy	Neos	1	5,742	plan this
Cairo CAI	Egypt	EgyptAir	1	4,126	plan this
Catania CTA	Italy	Neos	1	5,466	plan this
Frankfurt-am-Main FRA	Germany	Flight Alaska	1	6,918	plan this
Madrid MAD	Spain	Multiple Solutions Limited	1	6,786	plan this
Moscow VKO	Russia	Air Tanzania	1	6,876	plan this
Rome FCO	Italy	Neos	1	6,001	plan this
Saint-Petersburg LED	Russia	Air Tanzania	1	7,384	plan this
Tel Aviv Yafo TLV	Israel	Israir Airlines	1	4,276	plan this
Verona VRN	Italy	Neos	1	6,394	plan this

The ten destinations out of ZNZ 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. 6 further destinations sit in the same position and are listed in the board above.

The way back from ZNZ

The desk holds the return direction for 17 of the 27 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On four of them the return into ZNZ runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gaps are Mombasa (MBA) at 5.9 out a day against 3.1 back, Dar es Salaam (DAR) at 34.6 out a day against 22.9 back and Nairobi (NBO) at 7.5 out a day against 5.3 back.

It runs the other way as well: Arusha (JRO) files 11.9 a day back into ZNZ against 1.7 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at ZNZ

ZNZ keeps Africa/Dar_es_Salaam time, an hour behind Dubai all year.

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

The night at ZNZ

3 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 Paris (CDG) the door shuts at 00:00 local, so the last departure from ZNZ that lands inside it leaves around 15:57, on a modelled block of 9h 03m. Into Zurich (ZRH) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from ZNZ that lands inside it leaves around 15:27, on a modelled block of 8h 33m. Into Frankfurt-am-Main (FRA) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from ZNZ that lands inside it leaves around 15:10, on a modelled block of 8h 50m. Those three departure times out of ZNZ 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 ZNZ turns up on the rest of this site

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

The site publishes 6 airport pair pages that start or end at ZNZ, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are Zanzibar to Dar es Salaam (DAR), Zanzibar to Nairobi (NBO) and Zanzibar to Dubai (DXB).

One courier posting names ZNZ as the airport a courier here flies from: Zanzibar.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with ZNZ already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 27 destinations above.