GBE
Sir Seretse Khama International Airport

Sir Seretse Khama International Airport (IATA: GBE, ICAO: FBSK) is a large airport in Gaborone, Gaborone (city), Botswana. It opened in 1984. It has one runway, 4,000 m (13,123 ft) long, concrete. In 2024 it handled 408 thousand passengers.
Timeline
2 events · 1984–19991984
OpenedSir Seretse Khama International Airport opens.
11 OCT 1999
Disaster1999 Air Botswana incident.1 killed
From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026
Runways & airfield
Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap08/26062° / 242° · LIT
LENGTH4,000 m13,123 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEConcrete
Passengers per year
2013–2024401K
384K
382K
403K
425K
444K
471K
117K
146K
304K
353K
408K
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Routes
9 destinations · 5 countriesYear-round9
JNBO.R. Tambo International AirportSouth Africa · Air Botswana, Airlink293 km182 miFRWPhillip Gaonwe Matante International AirportBotswana · Air Botswana410 km255 miMUBMaun International AirportBotswana · Air Botswana570 km354 miBBKKasane International AirportBotswana · Air Botswana752 km467 miDURKing Shaka International AirportSouth Africa · Air Botswana762 km473 miWDHHosea Kutako International AirportNamibia · Air Botswana891 km554 miHRERobert Gabriel Mugabe International AirportZimbabwe · Air Botswana911 km566 miLUNKenneth Kaunda International AirportZambia · Air Botswana1,059 km658 miCPTCape Town International AirportSouth Africa · Air Botswana, Airlink1,264 km785 miMost destinationsAir Botswana 9Airlink 2
Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from GBE. From the Wikipedia article “Sir Seretse Khama International Airport” (revision of 8 Sep 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.
Records & rankings
Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · countryScale: share of airports ranked below, best on the right · ties shown as = and a band · passengers are each airport’s latest year on record
Radio frequencies
3 channelsAPPGABORONE APP128.200
GNDKHAMA GND121.900
TWRKHAMA TWR118.300