The sector is held by Air Tanzania.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
DAR Dar es Salaam to LOS Lagos
Julius Nyerere International, Tanzania, to Murtala Muhammed, Nigeria. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 3 times a week
- Great circle
- 4,253 km
- Block, estimated
- 5h 37m
- Door to door
- 12h 22m
What DAR to LOS looks like
The DAR to LOS sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Dar es Salaam DAR to Lagos LOS is a long haul sector of 4,253 km by great circle, flown nonstop 3 times a week.
At the cruise speed this site models for 4,253 km, 880 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 5h 37m.
Dar es Salaam DAR is a smaller airport in the network held here, 37 scheduled destinations and 80 departures a day. Lagos LOS has 40 destinations and 104.5 departures a day.
Lagos is 2 hours behind of Dar es Salaam all year.
The pair sits inside Africa, a corridor the written lanes do not cover, which is the reason a computed page for it exists at all.
Who flies the sector, and how often
Average daily frequencies on DAR to LOS from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| DAR to LOS | 0.43 | 3 | Air Tanzania |
| LOS to DAR | 0 | 0 | none held |
One carrier holds the sector, Air Tanzania, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
The return leg LOS to DAR carries no scheduled nonstop at all, so a courier coming back does it with a connection.
Between them the two directions put about 3 departures a week on DAR to LOS, which is the number that decides whether a seat can be found today or on Thursday.
The clock from collection to signature
The same ground timings the route calculator starts from, applied to the 5h 37m block time on DAR to LOS. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to DAR | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At DAR before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| DAR to LOS in the air, estimated | 337 min | 10h 07m |
| Formalities at LOS | 90 min | 11h 37m |
| Delivery run in Lagos | 45 min | 12h 22m |
| Door to door | 742 min | 12h 22m |
On the desk standard ground timings, ninety minutes to collect and reach the airport, three hours at the airport before departure, ninety minutes of arrival formalities and a forty five minute delivery run, the door to door figure for DAR to LOS is 12h 22m.
A courier who leaves Dar es Salaam at 09:00 local is on the ground in Lagos at about 12:37 local and at the door by 14:52 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Lagos, the last useful departure from Dar es Salaam is around 12:08 local.
At 12h 22m the mission uses most of a sixteen hour duty day, which leaves no room for a delay before a rest at the far end becomes the honest answer.
When the nonstop does not work
Every airport that joins the two ends, ranked by when they land, among the ones whose weaker leg is dependable enough to plan on. Connection time is allowed for the size of the hub. 8 of them join DAR to LOS.
| Connecting at | DAR to hub, flights a day | Hub to LOS, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kigali KGL | 0.71 | 1 | 4,268 | 7h 14m |
| Entebbe EBB | 1.86 | 0.71 | 4,386 | 7h 21m |
| Nairobi NBO | 5.71 | 1.14 | 4,500 | 7h 36m |
| Addis Ababa ADD | 3.43 | 2.14 | 5,680 | 9h 13m |
| Johannesburg JNB | 2.86 | 0.57 | 6,960 | 10h 34m |
| Cairo CAI | 0.57 | 1.14 | 8,129 | 12h 02m |
8 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Kigali KGL, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 5 times a week.
Through KGL the routing covers 4,268 km against the 4,253 km nonstop track and takes about 7h 14m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 60 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is only 1h 37m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Entebbe EBB at 7h 21m and Nairobi NBO at 7h 36m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Dar es Salaam, Zanzibar ZNZ is 73 km away by great circle and carries 27 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Plan Dar es Salaam to Lagos yourself
The same tool the dispatchers use, open to anybody and free. It is loaded with this pair already. Change either end, add a stopover or a preferred airline, and it works out the connection, the transit and the door to door clock, with the real departures underneath. Put it on your own site if it is useful to you.
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Where this came from, and where to look next
- Carriers and frequencies: AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics, retrieved 2026-09-07. Average daily flights, not a timetable.
- Distances: great circle from published coordinates. They read short against a flown track, which is why the block time above applies a factor to them.
- Block and connection times: the same model the route calculator lower down this page runs, at the same rounding.
- Restrictions: the airport notes file, checked 2026-09-07.
- Industrial sites: public company information. Nothing here says 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 is carried out by a vetted partner operator, with the desk as the single point of contact from the quote to the signature. This page exists because our own dispatchers need the answer for DAR to LOS in the twenty minutes before a promise is made, and a reference only one operator can read is not a reference. Free to read, quote and cite. Found an error? Tell us and we will correct it.
If you need something moved rather than looked up, the desk prices a hand carry in fifteen minutes.
- The DAR airport entry
- The LOS airport entry
- Hand carry into Tanzania
- Hand carry into Nigeria
- The written lane, Doha to Dar es Salaam
- The written lane, Amsterdam to Lagos
- The written lane, Dubai to Lagos
- The route calculator
More pairs through DAR and LOS: Dar es Salaam to Dubai, Dar es Salaam to Muscat, Nairobi to Dar es Salaam, Addis Ababa to Dar es Salaam, Dar es Salaam to Johannesburg, Mumbai to Dar es Salaam, Cairo to Dar es Salaam, Zanzibar to Dar es Salaam.