The sector is held by Kenya Airways, RwandAir, Safarilink and Uganda Airlines.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
EBB Entebbe to NBO Nairobi
Entebbe International, Uganda, to Jomo Kenyatta International, Kenya. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 8.7 times a day
- Great circle
- 521 km
- Block, estimated
- 1h 16m
- Door to door
- 8h 01m
What EBB to NBO looks like
The EBB to NBO sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Entebbe EBB to Nairobi NBO is a short sector of 521 km by great circle, flown nonstop 8.7 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 521 km, 720 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 1h 16m.
Entebbe EBB is a smaller airport in the network held here, 23 scheduled destinations and 36.1 departures a day. Nairobi NBO has 59 destinations and 148.6 departures a day.
Nairobi carries about 4.1 times the departures of Entebbe, so a courier who has to be rebooked has far more to work with at one end of this pair than at the other.
Entebbe and Nairobi keep the same clock all year, so the arrival time is the departure time plus the block and nothing else.
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 EBB to NBO from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| EBB to NBO | 8.71 | 61 | Kenya Airways, RwandAir, Safarilink, Uganda Airlines |
| NBO to EBB | 8.14 | 57 | Kenya Airways, Safarilink, Uganda Airlines |
4 carriers are recorded on the sector, so a missed departure is normally a rebooking rather than a lost day.
At 8.7 times a day there is usually another departure within a few hours, which is what makes a same day booking on this pair realistic.
Between them the two directions put about 118 departures a week on EBB to NBO, 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 1h 16m block time on EBB to NBO. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to EBB | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At EBB before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| EBB to NBO in the air, estimated | 76 min | 5h 46m |
| Formalities at NBO | 90 min | 7h 16m |
| Delivery run in Nairobi | 45 min | 8h 01m |
| Door to door | 481 min | 8h 01m |
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 EBB to NBO is 8h 01m.
A courier who leaves Entebbe at 09:00 local is on the ground in Nairobi at about 10:16 local and at the door by 12:31 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Nairobi, the last useful departure from Entebbe is around 14:29 local.
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. 20 of them join EBB to NBO.
| Connecting at | EBB to hub, flights a day | Hub to NBO, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kigali KGL | 2.29 | 5.14 | 1,098 | 3h 37m |
| Mombasa MBA | 0.57 | 20.86 | 1,338 | 3h 47m |
| Bujumbura BJM | 1 | 1.14 | 1,385 | 3h 52m |
| Juba JUB | 1.29 | 1.57 | 1,453 | 3h 58m |
| Zanzibar ZNZ | 1.14 | 7.46 | 1,627 | 4h 12m |
| Dar es Salaam DAR | 1.29 | 5.71 | 1,742 | 4h 21m |
With 8.7 times a day on the nonstop, a connection here is a disruption plan rather than a routing, and it is listed because a closed runway or a cancellation wave is exactly when nobody has time to work it out.
20 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 about twice a day.
Through KGL the routing covers 1,098 km against the 521 km nonstop track and takes about 3h 37m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 60 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is only 2h 21m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Mombasa MBA at 3h 47m and Bujumbura BJM at 3h 52m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
Plan Entebbe to Nairobi 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 EBB to NBO 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 EBB airport entry
- The NBO airport entry
- Hand carry into Uganda
- Hand carry into Kenya
- The written lane, Abu Dhabi to Nairobi
- The written lane, Doha to Nairobi
- The written lane, Dubai to Nairobi
- The route calculator
More pairs through EBB and NBO: Dubai to Entebbe, Addis Ababa to Entebbe, Nairobi to Jeddah, Nairobi to Mumbai, Nairobi to Johannesburg, Nairobi to Dar es Salaam, Nairobi to Addis Ababa, Accra to Nairobi.