Flights across East Africa

NaN routes and 68 operators across 19 countries Fares and journey times below come from the same engine that answers the search box.

All modes Trains Flights

1,546 Flights routes run across East Africa, reaching 80 places in 19 countries through 68 operators On the 16 busiest of them, priced on 10 October 2026, the cheapest fare is €41.44 and the fastest journey is 4h 4m door to door. A median route runs 2,523 km.

Checked 10 October 2026Priced for 10 October 2026One passenger, all fees included

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When to book
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The network

Flights in East Africa, in numbers

What we actually sell, counted rather than claimed.

1,546Routes we sell
431Corridors
80Places served
19Countries
68Operators
294Domestic routes
312Cross border routes
940Routes out of the region
2,523 kmMedian route
14,445 kmLongest route

Door to door

How the modes compare across East Africa

Every mode measured on the same 16 corridors in East Africa, priced on 10 October 2026 for one passenger.

Median fare, median door-to-door time and median carbon per passenger, over the corridors of East Africa where each mode runs.
Mode	Corridors priced	From	Door to door	CO2
Flight	16	€212.25	6h 28m	418.2 kg
Train	6	€262.69	8h 20m	396.2 kg

Routes

The corridors that matter in East Africa

Ranked by how much service runs, then priced. The country and city pages carry the rest.

The busiest routes we sell in East Africa, priced on 10 October 2026 for one passenger with every fee included.
Route	From	Fastest	Distance
Dire Dawa to Addis Ababa flight	€41.44	4h 4m	348 km
Harare to Lusaka flight	€47.93	4h 7m	399 km
Gonder to Addis Ababa flight	€48.52	4h 11m	421 km
Dodoma to Dar es Salaam flight	€58.55	4h 6m	397 km
Lilongwe to Lusaka flight	€66.22	4h 24m	613 km
Nairobi to Dar es Salaam flight	€70.94	4h 28m	673 km
Bujumbura to Nairobi flight	€115.19	4h 44m	860 km
Ndola to Johannesburg flight	€147.64	5h 33m	1,474 km
Nairobi to Johannesburg flight	€276.85	7h 22m	2,926 km
Yaoundé to Addis Ababa flight	€354.14	7h 54m	3,062 km
Addis Ababa to Kano flight	€383.05	8h 26m	3,320 km
Addis Ababa to Abidjan flight	€449.72	10h 14m	4,731 km
Nairobi to Istanbul flight	€452.08	10h 9m	4,770 km
Zanzibar to Dubai flight	€483.94	8h 50m	3,887 km
Brussels to Addis Ababa flight	€532.32	11h 21m	5,615 km
Arusha to Amsterdam flight	€705.78	12h 46m	6,880 km

Countries

Countries in East Africa

Every country in East Africa we sell in, most routes first.

Routes, places and carriers in each country of East Africa.
Country	Routes	Places	Operators
Ethiopia	428	37	15
Kenya	322	30	37
Tanzania	198	18	28
Madagascar	156	19	12
Mauritius	104	7	15
Zambia	102	13	13
Rwanda	76	10	7
Uganda	68	9	16
Réunion	64	11	5
Mozambique	58	9	11
Djibouti	46	9	9
Seychelles	46	4	11
Somalia	42	7	5
Malawi	38	6	5
Mayotte	36	9	6
Comoros	24	7	6
South Sudan	20	4	6
Eritrea	16	2	6
Burundi	14	5	4

Booking window

When to book in East Africa

The same search run at seven lead times across 3 corridors in East Africa.

€346.473 days
€356.507 days
€276.8521 days
€175.9645 days
€288.0684 days

Cheapest lead time: Across the routes we sampled the typical fare is lowest around 45 days ahead, at €175.96.
How much it moves: The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 51 percent. At the dearest point the typical fare is €356.50, 7 days out.

Catchment

How far people travel to get here

Every origin we sell by Flights, grouped by how far it is in a straight line.

Straight line distance from each origin we sell, not the distance the route runs.
Distance	Routes	Share	Nearest of them
Under 200 km	46	3%	Lamu, 137 km
200 to 600 km	308	20%	Gambēla, 202 km
600 to 1,500 km	242	16%	Arusha, 603 km
Over 1,500 km	950	61%	Kigali, 1509 km

Carriers

Airlines

The carriers with the largest networks inside East Africa.

China Southern Airlines Smartwings Saudia TUI fly Netherlands Airlink (SAA)Yemenia Air Mauritius Air Madagascar Air Tanzania Precision Air Linhas Aéreas de Moçambique Proflight Commuter Services Air Florida Air Seychelles Uganda Airlines

Flight destinations

Flights to Nairobi Flights to Addis Ababa Flights to Dar es Salaam Flights to Lusaka Flights to Maputo Flights to Arusha Flights to Zanzibar Flights to Mombasa Flights to Antananarivo Flights to Kigali Flights to Djibouti Flights to Ndola Flights to Toamasina Flights to Mwanza Flights to Entebbe Flights to Kisumu Flights to Eldoret Flights to Lilongwe Flights to Sainte-Marie Flights to Jijiga Flights to Mahébourg Flights to Mogadishu Flights to Dire Dawa Flights to Bujumbura Flights to Dodoma Flights to Livingstone Flights to Asmara Flights to Dessie Flights to Blantyre Flights to Juba Flights to Kigoma Flights to Antsiranana Flights to Mek'ele Flights to Hargeisa Flights to Gonder Flights to Andoany Flights to Nampula Flights to Victoria Flights to Bahir Dar Flights to Pemba Flights to Dzaoudzi Flights to Moroni Flights to Mahajanga Flights to Sambava Flights to Awasa Flights to Saint-Pierre Flights to Tôlanaro Flights to Jimma

Other ways to travel across East Africa

Trains across East Africa Everything we sell in East Africa

Common questions about Flights across East Africa

How many Flights routes does Orlero sell across East Africa?

1,546 of them, across 19 countries reaching 80 places through 68 operators

How much does travelling by Flights cost in East Africa?

On the 16 busiest Flights corridors in East Africa, priced on 10 October 2026, the lowest fare is €41.44 and the median is €212.25.

Is Flights the fastest way across East Africa?

On the corridors we priced, flight takes a median of 6h 28m door to door, against 8h 20m by Train. Both figures include reaching the terminal and leaving it at the other end.

Which countries in East Africa have Flights routes we sell?

Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Madagascar, Mauritius, Zambia, Rwanda, Uganda, Réunion, Mozambique, Djibouti, Seychelles, Somalia, Malawi, Mayotte, Comoros, South Sudan, Eritrea, Burundi.

Who runs the Flights services in East Africa?

Turkish Airlines, China Southern Airlines, Lufthansa, Air France, Eurowings, Air China, among 68 carriers we sell across East Africa.

When should I book travel across East Africa?

Fares on the corridors we sampled bottom out about 45 days before departure. Booking then rather than 7 days ahead was 51 percent cheaper on this sample.

How far apart are the places we sell in East Africa?

The median route runs 2,523 km in a straight line and the shortest is 137 km. The longest we sell is 14,445 km, from Everett to Nairobi.

Where these numbers come from

Places, coordinates, operators, which operator serves which pair, and every distance on this page are real and come from open data. Where a corridor has a filed timetable the departure times are real too, and ferry fares are the prices the operators publish themselves.

Where no operator publishes a fare for a corridor, the price here is our own estimate, worked out from the real distance and the real operator through a fare curve that follows lead time, day of the week and season. It tells you roughly what the journey costs. It is not a seat anyone has agreed to sell, and the payment step will not take it.

Defined in full at Door to door, Fares

Regions: A region is a set of countries, and a route counts for it when either end is inside it. Countries are grouped from their ISO code alone, so the map grows with the data and nothing here is drawn by hand.
The sample: Fares, journey times and carbon are measured on the 16 highest ranked corridors in this region, spread across it rather than taken from the top, so the figures describe the region and not its busiest country.