FBM

Lubumbashi International Airport

ICAO FZQA11.5915°S 27.5308°E1,309 m / 4,295 ftLarge airport
On the map

Lubumbashi International Airport (IATA: FBM, ICAO: FZQA) is a large airport in Lubumbashi, Haut-Katanga Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. It has one runway, 3,238 m (10,623 ft) long, asphalt.

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
LUBuMBASHI INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT (FBM)
07/25066° / 246° · LIT
LENGTH3,238 m10,623 ftWIDTH50 m164 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Routes

11 destinations · 8 countries
Year-round11
NLASimon Mwansa Kapwepwe International AirportZambia · Mahogany Air186 km116 miLUNKenneth Kaunda International AirportZambia · Mahogany Air428 km266 miMJMMbuji Mayi AirportCongo - Kinshasa · Congo Airways748 km465 miKGAKananga AirportCongo - Kinshasa · Congo Airways842 km523 miKGLKigali International AirportRwanda · RwandAir1,108 km688 miDARJulius Nyerere International AirportTanzania · Air Tanzania1,384 km860 miNBOJomo Kenyatta International AirportKenya · Kenya Airways1,543 km959 miFIHNdjili International AirportCongo - Kinshasa · Air Congo, Congo Airways1,553 km965 miJNBO.R. Tambo International AirportSouth Africa · Congo Airways, South African Airways, Airlink1,619 km1,006 miADDAddis Ababa Bole International AirportEthiopia · Ethiopian Airlines2,605 km1,619 miAUHZayed International AirportUnited Arab Emirates · Etihad Airways4,972 km3,089 mi
Most destinationsCongo Airways 4Mahogany Air 2RwandAir 1Air Tanzania 1Kenya Airways 1Air Congo 1

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from FBM. From the Wikipedia article “Lubumbashi International Airport” (revision of 31 Aug 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Longest runway3,238 m10,623 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft#776of 29,823 · #119 Africa · #3 CDElevation1,309 m4,295 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=2,986of 43,341 · #605 Africa · #18 CDRunways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,360of 29,943 · =176 Africa · =2 CD
Scale: 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

2 channels
APPAPP128.100
TWRTWR118.100