Lilongwe International Airport (LLW)
A working profile of Lilongwe International Airport in Lilongwe, Malawi: identifiers, location, the destinations served by scheduled flights, and the airlines that operate there.
Quick facts
- Full name: Lilongwe International Airport
- Serves: Lilongwe, Malawi
- Coordinates: -13.7894, 33.7810
- Elevation: 4,035 ft
- Time zone: Africa/Blantyre
Lilongwe International Airport sits inside the air network of Malawi. It shows 12 distinct scheduled departures across 6 destinations and 6 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 LLW
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LUN | Kenneth Kaunda International Airport Lusaka | Lusaka | Zambia | LLW→LUN | 5 |
| NBO | Jomo Kenyatta International Airport | Nairobi | Kenya | LLW→NBO | 3 |
| BLZ | Chileka International Airport | Blantyre | Malawi | LLW→BLZ | 1 |
| DAR | Julius Nyerere International Airport | Dar Es Salaam | Tanzania | LLW→DAR | 1 |
| HRE | Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport | Harare | Zimbabwe | LLW→HRE | 1 |
| JNB | OR Tambo International Airport | Johannesburg | South Africa | LLW→JNB | 1 |
Airlines operating at LLW
Carriers ranked by the number of routes they file from this airport.
| IATA | Airline | Country | Routes from LLW |
|---|---|---|---|
| ET | Ethiopian Airlines | Ethiopia | 4 |
| AF | Air France | France | 2 |
| KL | KLM Royal Dutch Airlines | Netherlands | 2 |
| KQ | Kenya Airways | Kenya | 2 |
| P0 | Proflight Commuter Services | Zambia | 1 |
| SA | South African Airways | South Africa | 1 |
Inbound origin airports
Where flights into LLW typically originate, ranked by the number of operators on file.
| IATA | Origin airport | City | Country | Operators |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LUN | Kenneth Kaunda International Airport Lusaka | Lusaka | Zambia | 5 |
| NBO | Jomo Kenyatta International Airport | Nairobi | Kenya | 3 |
| ADD | Addis Ababa Bole International Airport | Addis Ababa | Ethiopia | 1 |
| BLZ | Chileka International Airport | Blantyre | Malawi | 1 |
| DAR | Julius Nyerere International Airport | Dar Es Salaam | Tanzania | 1 |
| HRE | Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport | Harare | Zimbabwe | 1 |
| JNB | OR Tambo International Airport | Johannesburg | South Africa | 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 LLW 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 LLW 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 LLW 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.