The sector is held by Air Tanzania, Auric Air, Charterlines, flydubai, HOP!-REGIONAL and Oman Air.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
ZNZ Zanzibar to DAR Dar es Salaam
Abeid Amani Karume, Tanzania, to Julius Nyerere International, Tanzania. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 34.6 times a day
- Great circle
- 73 km
- Block, estimated
- 36 min
- Door to door
- 7h 21m
What ZNZ to DAR looks like
The ZNZ to DAR sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Zanzibar ZNZ to Dar es Salaam DAR is a short sector of 73 km by great circle, flown nonstop 34.6 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 73 km, 720 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 36 min.
Zanzibar ZNZ is a smaller airport in the network held here, 27 scheduled destinations and 91.7 departures a day. Dar es Salaam DAR has 37 destinations and 80 departures a day.
Zanzibar and Dar es Salaam 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 ZNZ to DAR from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZNZ to DAR | 34.57 | 242 | Air Tanzania, Auric Air, Charterlines, flydubai, HOP!-REGIONAL, Oman Air |
| DAR to ZNZ | 22.86 | 160 | Air Tanzania, Auric Air, Charterlines, flydubai, HOP!-REGIONAL, Oman Air |
6 carriers are recorded on the sector, so a missed departure is normally a rebooking rather than a lost day.
The two directions are not level: ZNZ to DAR runs 34.6 times a day, the return runs 22.9 times a day, and a round trip has to be planned around the thinner of the two.
At 34.6 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 402 departures a week on ZNZ to DAR, 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 36 min block time on ZNZ to DAR. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to ZNZ | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At ZNZ before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| ZNZ to DAR in the air, estimated | 36 min | 5h 06m |
| Formalities at DAR | 90 min | 6h 36m |
| Delivery run in Dar es Salaam | 45 min | 7h 21m |
| Door to door | 441 min | 7h 21m |
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 ZNZ to DAR is 7h 21m.
A courier who leaves Zanzibar at 09:00 local is on the ground in Dar es Salaam at about 09:36 local and at the door by 11:51 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Dar es Salaam, the last useful departure from Zanzibar is around 15:09 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. 10 of them join ZNZ to DAR.
| Connecting at | ZNZ to hub, flights a day | Hub to DAR, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kilimanjaro JRO | 1.71 | 4.29 | 841 | 3h 15m |
| Nairobi NBO | 7.46 | 7.14 | 1,270 | 3h 52m |
| Addis Ababa ADD | 3 | 3.43 | 3,455 | 6h 40m |
| Johannesburg JNB | 0.71 | 0.79 | 4,938 | 8h 19m |
| Dubai DXB | 3.29 | 1.71 | 7,889 | 12h 01m |
With 34.6 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.
10 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Kilimanjaro JRO, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about once a day.
Through JRO the routing covers 841 km against the 73 km nonstop track and takes about 3h 15m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 60 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is 2h 39m more than the nonstop, which is the price of a missed departure on this pair.
Behind it, Nairobi NBO at 3h 52m and Addis Ababa ADD at 6h 40m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
The two ends are only 73 km apart in a straight line. Allowing a road track a quarter longer than that and eighty kilometres an hour, a car covers it in about 1h 08m, so a courier who misses the flight drives rather than connects, and on a short deadline the road is often the plan from the start.
Plan Zanzibar to Dar es Salaam 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 ZNZ to DAR 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 ZNZ airport entry
- The DAR airport entry
- Hand carry into Tanzania
- The written lane, Doha to Dar es Salaam
- The route calculator
More pairs through ZNZ and DAR: 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, Cape Town to Dar es Salaam.