Flights across East Africa

1,506 Flights routes run across East Africa, reaching 76 places in 19 countries through 70 operators On the 16 busiest of them, priced on October 11, 2026, the cheapest fare is €62.68 and the fastest trip is 4h 22m door to door. A median route runs 2,545 km.

Checked October 11, 2026Priced for October 11, 2026One passenger, all fees included

The network
Modes compared
Routes
Countries
When to book
Operators
Questions

The network

Flights in East Africa, in numbers

What we actually sell, counted rather than claimed.

1,506Routes we sell
421Corridors
76Places served
19Countries
70Operators
276Domestic routes
296Cross border routes
934Routes out of the region
2,545 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 October 11, 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	€295.14	7h 59m	930.8 kg
Train	5	€307.79	8h 59m	1040.7 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 October 11, 2026 for one passenger with every fee included.
Route	From	Fastest	Distance
Zanzibar to Nairobi flight	€62.68	4h 22m	604 km
Lilongwe to Lusaka flight	€66.22	4h 26m	613 km
Andoany to Antananarivo flight	€66.81	4h 23m	618 km
Mahébourg to Antananarivo flight	€112.83	4h 59m	1,077 km
Lusaka to Johannesburg flight	€113.42	5h 9m	1,201 km
Addis Ababa to Jeddah flight	€128.17	5h 23m	1,387 km
Nairobi to Johannesburg flight	€258.56	7h 22m	2,926 km
Jeddah to Dar es Salaam flight	€282.75	7h 56m	3,148 km
Abu Dhabi to Nairobi flight	€307.53	8h 11m	3,433 km
Sharjah city to Nairobi flight	€323.46	8h 19m	3,573 km
Luanda to Addis Ababa flight	€329.95	8h 2m	3,454 km
Addis Ababa to Bengaluru flight	€407.24	9h 39m	4,259 km
Nairobi to Mumbai flight	€452.08	9h 41m	4,542 km
Nairobi to Lagos flight	€454.44	8h 49m	3,808 km
Paris to Addis Ababa flight	€515.80	11h 12m	5,573 km
Nairobi to Guangzhou flight	€851.51	15h 2m	8,680 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	17
Kenya	320	30	40
Tanzania	196	18	28
Madagascar	154	19	12
Mauritius	104	7	17
Zambia	102	13	13
Rwanda	76	10	8
Uganda	60	7	16
Mozambique	58	9	11
Réunion	54	10	6
Seychelles	46	4	11
Djibouti	38	7	9
Malawi	38	6	5
Mayotte	36	9	6
Somalia	26	5	4
South Sudan	20	4	6
Eritrea	16	2	6
Comoros	16	5	4
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.

€103.983 days
€99.857 days
€66.8121 days
€47.3445 days
€78.0284 days

Cheapest lead time: Across the routes we sampled the typical fare is lowest around 45 days ahead, at €47.34.
How much it moves: The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 54 percent. At the most expensive point the typical fare is €103.98, 3 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	286	19%	Gambēla, 202 km
600 to 1,500 km	238	16%	Arusha, 603 km
Over 1,500 km	936	62%	Kigali, 1509 km

Carriers

Airlines

The carriers with the largest networks inside East Africa.

China Southern Airlines Hainan Airlines Smartwings Saudia TUI fly Netherlands Airlink (SAA)Yemenia Air Mauritius Air Madagascar Precision Air Air Tanzania Fly540 Jambojet Limited Linhas Aéreas de Moçambique

Flight destinations

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

1,506 of them, across 19 countries reaching 76 places through 70 operators

How much does travelling by Flights cost in East Africa?

On the 16 busiest Flights corridors in East Africa, priced on October 11, 2026, the lowest fare is €62.68 and the median is €295.14.

Is Flights the fastest way across East Africa?

On the corridors we priced, flight takes a median of 7h 59m door to door, against 8h 59m 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, Mozambique, Réunion, Seychelles, Djibouti, Malawi, Mayotte, Somalia, South Sudan, Eritrea, Comoros, Burundi.

Who runs the Flights services in East Africa?

China Southern Airlines, Turkish Airlines, Air China, Transavia France, Air France, Lufthansa, among 70 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 3 days ahead was 54 percent cheaper on this sample.

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

The median route runs 2,545 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.

Prices come from the supplier wherever we hold a live quote. Elsewhere we show an indicative price built from the real distance, the real operator and a fare curve over lead time, day of the week and season. Those are labeled Estimated fare and cannot be booked.

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, travel 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.