Chileka International Airport (BLZ)
A working profile of Chileka International Airport in Blantyre, Malawi: identifiers, location, the destinations served by scheduled flights, and the airlines that operate there.
Quick facts
- Full name: Chileka International Airport
- Serves: Blantyre, Malawi
- Coordinates: -15.6791, 34.9740
- Elevation: 2,555 ft
- Time zone: Africa/Blantyre
Chileka International Airport sits inside the air network of Malawi. It shows 5 distinct scheduled departures across 4 destinations and 3 operating carriers in the OpenFlights routes table. Whether it works as a primary hub, a focus city, or a regional feeder depends on the size of those numbers. The bigger they get, the more likely the airport supports connecting traffic on top of its point-to-point passengers.
Destinations from BLZ
Destinations are listed in order of how many distinct airline codes serve them. Click any code for the destination's own airport profile, or jump to the dedicated route page.
| IATA | Destination | City | Country | Route | Operators |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JNB | OR Tambo International Airport | Johannesburg | South Africa | BLZ→JNB | 2 |
| ADD | Addis Ababa Bole International Airport | Addis Ababa | Ethiopia | BLZ→ADD | 1 |
| LLW | Lilongwe International Airport | Lilongwe | Malawi | BLZ→LLW | 1 |
| NBO | Jomo Kenyatta International Airport | Nairobi | Kenya | BLZ→NBO | 1 |
Airlines operating at BLZ
Carriers ranked by the number of routes they file from this airport.
| IATA | Airline | Country | Routes from BLZ |
|---|---|---|---|
| ET | Ethiopian Airlines | Ethiopia | 3 |
| KQ | Kenya Airways | Kenya | 1 |
| SA | South African Airways | South Africa | 1 |
Inbound origin airports
Where flights into BLZ typically originate, ranked by the number of operators on file.
| IATA | Origin airport | City | Country | Operators |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| JNB | OR Tambo International Airport | Johannesburg | South Africa | 2 |
| LLW | Lilongwe International Airport | Lilongwe | Malawi | 1 |
| LUN | Kenneth Kaunda International Airport Lusaka | Lusaka | Zambia | 1 |
| NBO | Jomo Kenyatta International Airport | Nairobi | Kenya | 1 |
How to read this page
The destinations table is the core of an airport profile. It tells you, at a glance, where you can fly directly from BLZ on a published schedule. The "operators" column doesn't measure frequency. It measures how many distinct airline codes file the route. So a "3" means three different carriers list BLZ to that destination, even if one of them runs the route many times a day while the others only manage it weekly. For practical trip planning, use the table as a starting list and confirm the airline's own schedule for your travel dates.
The airline list shows which carriers treat BLZ as part of their network. Many will be foreign carriers running one or two flights, while a handful will use the airport as a base. To see where those carriers fly elsewhere, click through to any airline page. Each airline profile includes a route sample drawn from the same dataset.