Simon Mwansa Kapwepwe International Airport (NLA)
A working profile of Simon Mwansa Kapwepwe International Airport in Ndola, Zambia: identifiers, location, the destinations served by scheduled flights, and the airlines that operate there.
Quick facts
- Full name: Simon Mwansa Kapwepwe International Airport
- Serves: Ndola, Zambia
- Coordinates: -12.9981, 28.6649
- Elevation: 4,167 ft
- Time zone: Africa/Lusaka
Simon Mwansa Kapwepwe International Airport sits inside the air network of Zambia. It shows 9 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 NLA
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 | NLA→JNB | 2 |
| FBM | Lubumbashi International Airport | Lubumashi | Congo (Kinshasa) | NLA→FBM | 2 |
| NBO | Jomo Kenyatta International Airport | Nairobi | Kenya | NLA→NBO | 2 |
| ADD | Addis Ababa Bole International Airport | Addis Ababa | Ethiopia | NLA→ADD | 1 |
| LUN | Kenneth Kaunda International Airport Lusaka | Lusaka | Zambia | NLA→LUN | 1 |
| MNS | Mansa Airport | Mansa | Zambia | NLA→MNS | 1 |
Airlines operating at NLA
Carriers ranked by the number of routes they file from this airport.
| IATA | Airline | Country | Routes from NLA |
|---|---|---|---|
| KL | KLM Royal Dutch Airlines | Netherlands | 2 |
| KQ | Kenya Airways | Kenya | 2 |
| P0 | Proflight Commuter Services | Zambia | 2 |
| D6 | Interair South Africa | South Africa | 1 |
| ET | Ethiopian Airlines | Ethiopia | 1 |
| SA | South African Airways | South Africa | 1 |
Inbound origin airports
Where flights into NLA typically originate, ranked by the number of operators on file.
| IATA | Origin airport | City | Country | Operators |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FBM | Lubumbashi International Airport | Lubumashi | Congo (Kinshasa) | 3 |
| JNB | OR Tambo International Airport | Johannesburg | South Africa | 2 |
| NBO | Jomo Kenyatta International Airport | Nairobi | Kenya | 2 |
| KAA | Kasama Airport | Kasama | Zambia | 1 |
| LUN | Kenneth Kaunda International Airport Lusaka | Lusaka | Zambia | 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 NLA 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 NLA 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 NLA 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.