Lubumbashi International Airport

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Lubumbashi International Airport
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Summary
Airport typePublic
Serves Lubumbashi
Location Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Elevation  AMSL 4,295 ft / 1,309 m
Coordinates 11°35′28.80″S27°31′51.52″E / 11.5913333°S 27.5309778°E / -11.5913333; 27.5309778
Website lubumbashiairport.com
Map
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Location of Airport in Democratic Republic of the Congo
Lubumbashi International Airport
Runways
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07/253,20310,509Asphalt

Lubumbashi International Airport( IATA : FBM, ICAO : FZQA) is an airport serving Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Contents

History

Lubumbashi International Airport was founded in colonial times as the Elisabethville Airport. [1] It was also known as Luano Airport. This airport played a high-profile role during the Katanga war. [2] After it was seized by the United Nations Force in the Congo (ONUC) troops, the airport was used as a base against the secessionist government. [3]

Airlines and destinations

Passenger

AirlinesDestinations
Air Congo Kinshasa–N'djili [4]
Airlink Johannesburg–O. R. Tambo [5]
Air Tanzania Dar es Salaam [6]
Compagnie Africaine d'Aviation Kalemie, Kamina, [7] Kinshasa–N'djili, Kolwezi, [7] Mbuji-Mayi
Congo Airways Johannesburg–O. R. Tambo, [8] Kananga, Kinshasa–N'djili, Mbuji-Mayi [9]
Ethiopian Airlines Addis Ababa
Kenya Airways Nairobi–Jomo Kenyatta
Mahogany Air Lusaka, [10] Ndola [11]
RwandAir Kigali [12]
South African Airways Johannesburg–O. R. Tambo [13]

Cargo

AirlinesDestinations
Cargolux [14] Luxembourg

Accidents and incidents

See also

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  4. ↑ "Air Congo 1Q25 Network Expansion". Aeroroutes. Retrieved 23 January 2025.
  5. ↑ "Airlink Flight Schedule Guide" (PDF).
  6. ↑ "Air Tanzania launches direct flights to Lubumbashi". The Citizen. 11 November 2021. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
  7. 1 2 March 2014 Timetable, http://www.caacongo.com/horaires-20-mars-2014.pdf
  8. ↑ "Congo Airways adds new African destinations in May 2018". routesonline. Retrieved 29 May 2018.
  9. ↑ HORAIRE AVEC 1 Q400 DU 06/06 AU 10/07/2016 (Heures locales), http://www.congoairways.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/HORAIRE-1-Q400-2016-V2.0-ok.pdf%5B‍%5D
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  11. ↑ "Mahogany Air commences Lusaka-Ndola-Lubumbashi service, 18 March 2019". CAPA. Retrieved 10 May 2020.
  12. ↑ "RwandAir to launch two new routes to the DRC". 13 September 2021.
  13. ↑ "South African Airways to Resume Lubumbashi Service in NW24". Aeroroutes. Retrieved 31 July 2024.
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