Maputo Airport (MPM) — Direct Flights, USD Fares | Mozambique

Maputo International (MPM, ICAO FQMA) serves Maputo, Mozambique and is a destination reached by travellers flying from across Africa. Our catalogue links 0 direct destinations out of MPM and 3 African origins into it, served by 5 carriers.

At a glance

3 catalogued corridors touch Maputo (MPM / FQMA) in Mozambique: 0 outbound and 3 inbound, flown by 5 carriers. 1 of those corridors carry a cached USD quote in our fare file; the rest are catalogued on schedule evidence alone. The mix runs 2 sectors under four hours, 1 of four to seven and 0 beyond seven.

The route mix at MPM splits into 2 short sectors under four hours, 1 medium sector of four to seven hours and 0 long-haul sectors beyond seven — a profile that tells you what the terminal is actually built around. 2 of the corridors here are flagged in our data as labour-migration or diaspora routes, where checked-baggage terms drive booking decisions more than schedule does.

Two codes, two uses. MPM is the IATA code you will see on a ticket, a baggage tag and a departure board, while FQMA is the ICAO code used in flight plans, NOTAMs and air-traffic filing. They are not interchangeable: IATA codes are reused across the world’s smaller fields and are the ones that cause mis-booking, which is why every corridor on this site is keyed on the pair of codes rather than a city name.

Airlines serving MPM

5 carriers appear on the MPM corridors catalogued here, 5 of them with a row in our carrier file, recording checked-baggage baselines of 23 kg, and 2 of those rows sit inside a global alliance (SkyTeam 1, Star Alliance 1). That list is built from the 3 corridors this site catalogues through MPM, so it is our coverage rather than the airport’s full published schedule.

These carriers operate the MPM corridors catalogued on this site.

Alliance spread decides how easily a disruption at MPM gets fixed. With 1 SkyTeam carrier, 1 Star Alliance carrier on these corridors, a passenger stuck here can sometimes be reflowed onto a partner without a new ticket — but only within the same alliance, and only when the original ticket permits it. Between alliances, re-accommodation is a commercial favour rather than an entitlement.

Top routes into MPM

7/10 is the highest demand score on any MPM corridor in our catalogue — Johannesburg to Maputo (JNB–MPM), about 14 flights a week on 4Z, LM and SA. Demand score is this catalogue’s own 1-10 editorial rating across 3 corridors at MPM, not a passenger count from a civil-aviation authority.

Sorted by demand; the USD market-low column is the cheapest fare our cache has seen on the corridor across all carriers.

Schedule concentration is the number worth noticing: the three busiest corridors account for about 100% of the roughly 20 weekly departures our catalogue records at MPM. A concentrated airport recovers well on its trunk routes — several rotations a day means a cancellation is a wait, not a lost day — and badly on its thin ones, where the next flight can be days away.

Block times across these corridors run from about 1.0 h to 5.5 h. That range is the practical reason a single connecting-time rule does not work at MPM: a short regional inbound and a long-haul outbound have very different delay profiles, and a tight self-built connection between them is where most missed onward flights on this site’s corridors happen. On separate tickets there is no protection at all.

Corridors and typical fares from MPM

1 of the 3 MPM corridors carry a cached USD quote, the lowest at $205. Fares are quoted in USD across the whole site so corridors from different African markets stay comparable. Sector length drives the shape: 2 run under four hours, 1 four to seven and 0 beyond seven.

Most MPM corridors here serve intra-Africa and Gulf-hub business travellers. The mix is 2 short intra-Africa hops (under 4 h), 1 medium Gulf-range sector (4–7 h). 2 are labour-migration or diaspora corridors where extra-baggage allowances matter. USD fares vary by corridor — intra-Africa typically $400–900, Gulf hubs $500–1,200, long-haul $800–2,200; each per-route guide below carries live cached fares.

The shape of the fare curve follows the sector length. The 2 short corridors under four hours from MPM price like regional traffic and move mostly with the day of the week; the 0 long-haul corridors beyond seven hours move with season and school holidays, and can double between the cheapest and dearest month in our own cache. Mixing the two on one average would be meaningless, which is why every corridor page carries its own floor.

Direct flights to MPM — 3 routes

3 catalogued routes are listed below for MPM, reaching 3 countries, led by South Africa, Tanzania and Angola. Our catalogue records 0 departure and 3 arrival corridors at MPM, each linking to a corridor guide with carriers, frequency, block time and any cached fare.

• DAR -> MPM
• JNB -> MPM
• LAD -> MPM

Every entry leads to a corridor page with the same skeleton of facts: who flies it, how often, how long the nonstop sector is scheduled to take, how far apart the two airports actually are, and what our fare cache has recorded. Routing and carrier decide the trip; the fare only decides between equivalents.

The list covers this site’s catalogue, not the airport’s timetable. We add corridors where there is a real audience among African travellers — diaspora, pilgrim, intra-Africa and business traffic — so a seasonal charter or a thin regional service out of Maputo may be missing even though it operates. A blank fare means no cached quote rather than no service.

Read the list as directional. We hold 0 outbound and 3 inbound corridors at MPM, and the two directions are genuinely different products: pricing is set market by market, availability differs by season, and the delay rules that apply are those of the departure airport, not of the city pair.

FAQ

5 questions below answer what travellers ask most often about this page’s subject, drawn from the same route, carrier, airport and fare files as everything above. Where a figure is missing from our data, the answer says so rather than estimating.

How is MPM airport connected? MPM (Maputo) is reachable on 3 direct routes in our catalogue — see the full route list above.

What are the IATA and ICAO codes for MPM airport? The IATA code is MPM and the ICAO code is FQMA. The airport serves Maputo, Mozambique.

How can I check fares and schedules for routes through MPM? Each route in the list above links to a guide with live USD fares, weekly frequency and the airlines that operate it.

Which airlines fly from MPM? Carriers on MPM corridors catalogued here: Airlink, LAM Mozambique Airlines, South African Airways, Kenya Airways, TAAG Angola Airlines. See the airlines table above for alliance and baggage.

What is the cheapest flight from MPM? In our fare cache the lowest market fare out of MPM is about $205 on Johannesburg–Maputo (JNB-MPM). Fares move with season — check live prices on the route guide.

Related

1 related page follow. Each is linked because it shares an endpoint, a carrier, a country or an audience cluster with this one — the annotations say what each adds, so the ones that do not apply to your trip can be skipped.

• Flights to Mozambique — country landing page: 3 catalogued corridors from African airports, carriers, visa row and the USD fare floor we have on file.

Nothing above was chosen by keyword. The link set is derived from the route, carrier and airport files — a shared endpoint, a shared operator, a shared country or the same audience cluster is what puts a page on this list. That is why a link can point at a city you have no interest in and still be the useful one: it shares the airline.

Corridor pages carry the per-route detail — carriers, weekly frequency, scheduled block time, great-circle distance and whatever the fare cache holds. Airport pages carry the full catalogued route list at that field, the based hub carriers and the compensation regime of the country it sits in. Carrier pages carry the baggage baseline, alliance and the network as this catalogue records it.