Air travel in Tanzania
Every airport and active airline registered in Tanzania, ranked by scheduled-route activity. Use this page to find the country's main hubs, see which carriers run the domestic network, and click through to route detail.
Tanzania is one slice of a global network covering 6,071 airports across 235 countries. The OpenFlights dataset puts 24 airports inside this country with valid IATA codes, served by 3 active airlines registered locally. Together those airports show 76 distinct scheduled departures in the routes table. That figure is a rough proxy for how well-connected the country's airports are, even though it's not a literal count of flights.
Airports below are sorted by scheduled-route volume, so the country's main hubs sit at the top. Smaller regional airports follow, including the seasonal-only and domestic-only fields. Each row links through to a dedicated airport page with destinations served and the airlines operating there.
Airports in Tanzania
Showing 24 of 24 airports, ranked by departures on file.
| IATA | Airport | City | Departures |
|---|---|---|---|
| DAR | Julius Nyerere International Airport | Dar Es Salaam | 35 |
| JRO | Kilimanjaro International Airport | Kilimanjaro | 20 |
| ZNZ | Abeid Amani Karume International Airport | Zanzibar | 11 |
| MWZ | Mwanza Airport | Mwanza | 6 |
| ARK | Arusha Airport | Arusha | 1 |
| MYW | Mtwara Airport | Mtwara | 1 |
| BKZ | Bukoba Airport | Bukoba | 1 |
| MBI | Songwe Airport | Mbeya | 1 |
| DOD | Dodoma Airport | Dodoma | 0 |
| IRI | Iringa Airport | Iringa | 0 |
| LKY | Lake Manyara Airport | Lake Manyara | 0 |
| PMA | Pemba Airport | Pemba | 0 |
| TGT | Tanga Airport | Tanga | 0 |
| SEU | Seronera Airport | Seronera | 0 |
| MFA | Mafia Island Airport | Mafia Island | 0 |
| TKQ | Kigoma Airport | Kigoma | 0 |
| LDI | Lindi Airport | Lindi | 0 |
| MUZ | Musoma Airport | Musoma | 0 |
| SHY | Shinyanga Airport | Shinyanga | 0 |
| TBO | Tabora Airport | Tabora | 0 |
| SGX | Songea Airport | Songea | 0 |
| KIY | Kilwa Masoko Airport | Kilwa Masoko | 0 |
| QSI | Moshi Airport | Moshi | 0 |
| GIT | Mchauru Airport | Geita | 0 |
Airlines based in Tanzania
Active carriers with a two-letter IATA code registered in this country.
| IATA | Airline | Callsign |
|---|---|---|
| TC | Air Tanzania | TANZANIA |
| PW | Precision Air | PRECISION AIR |
| Z9 | Flightlink Tanzania | – |
Reading this page
The departures column counts the number of distinct routes filed in the OpenFlights schedule from each airport. A hub with hundreds of departures is a major connecting point; a regional field with a single-digit count typically supports a small number of feeder flights to the nearest hub. The list does not weight routes by frequency or seat capacity, so two airports with similar departure counts can carry very different passenger volumes in practice.
For the most current operational picture, cross-reference an airport page with the airline's own website. The underlying dataset is community-maintained and reflects scheduled-route relationships rather than a live timetable.
Country pages on AeroRoute Guide are short on purpose. They answer one travel-planning question: which airports and carriers are worth knowing in Tanzania. If you're routing a trip, start at the top of the airports table and work down. If you're researching a specific airline, jump from the airlines table to the carrier profile for its full destination map. Cross-links between countries, hubs, and routes mean a single click usually moves you from a high-level overview into operational detail. When the data shows zero registered carriers, the country isn't unreachable. It almost always means scheduled service comes from foreign airlines based elsewhere, and those flights show up on the relevant airport pages.