Flights from Dar es Salaam to Maputo (DAR-MPM): Airlines, USD Fares

Flights Dar es Salaam -> Maputo (DAR-MPM) — USD Fares, Airlines, Frequency

3 scheduled departures a week link Dar es Salaam (DAR) in Tanzania with Maputo (MPM) — one every 2.3 days on average — flown by 2 catalogued carriers at a scheduled block time near 3.0 hours. Our catalogue scores corridor demand 5/10 and files it as an intra-Africa + Gulf hub transit corridor.

Flight DAR -> MPM is operated by LAM Mozambique Airlines, Kenya Airways (~3 flights per week, ~3.0h block time). This is an intra-Africa + Gulf hub transit corridor, with typical economy USD fares in the $500-1,500 band. Intra-Africa and Gulf-hub transit fares move week-to-week; 4-8 weeks is the typical sweet spot.

Great-circle distance Dar es Salaam–Maputo is about 2,231 km, computed from the stored coordinates of DAR (-6.88, 39.20) and MPM (-25.92, 32.57). What the figure fixes is the sector profile — 2,231 km against a scheduled 3.0-hour block time — and the fuel-and-crew economics behind the fare floor. It does not fix a compensation amount. No fixed-tariff compensation scheme reaches DAR–MPM. EU261 and UK261 do band by distance, but they only cover flights departing an EU/EEA or UK airport — plus arrivals there on a bloc-licensed carrier — and neither endpoint here is one, whoever operates the flight. The Montreal Convention 1999 is what applies, and it pays provable loss, not a tariff.

Airlines on this route

2 carriers operate DAR–MPM: LAM Mozambique Airlines (LM) and Kenya Airways (KQ). Our carrier table records checked-baggage baselines of 23 kg; Kenya Airways sits in SkyTeam, with no alliance recorded for LM. That mix decides three things — the fare floor, whether your bag is through-checked on a connection, and which delay regulation covers you.

One column is blank rather than negative. Our carrier file carries a row for LAM Mozambique Airlines but no alliance value, which means unrecorded, not unaligned — this page therefore says nothing about its alliance membership either way. The practical question a connection turns on is narrower anyway: whether the two airlines on your itinerary interline, and whether both sectors sit on one ticket. Both are answerable at the booking screen, and neither depends on an alliance badge.

USD fares — DAR-MPM

$460 is the most recent weekly reading in our fare log for DAR–MPM, taken in 2026-W25, across 2 readings that range $460 to $810. The point-in-time fare cache holds no entry for this corridor, so the weekly log is the observed evidence here.

Typical economy fares on DAR-MPM sit in the $500-1,500 range. Live cached fares from Travelpayouts appear in the panel below; fare-month seasonality follows.

Book 4-8 weeks ahead. Fares rise around the December holidays; mid-week departures are usually the cheapest. That window is cluster guidance for an intra-Africa + Gulf hub transit corridor rather than a rule for this single pairing; on a corridor with 3 weekly departures, the practical constraint is often seat availability on the days you can actually travel, not the headline fare.

Treat every cached figure on DAR–MPM as a fare, not as a trip cost. What the cache cannot see is the booking class behind the number: checked baggage, seat selection and change rights are all fare-family attributes, and the buckets that produce record-low quotes are the ones that include least. Price the trip you are actually taking.

How much baggage can you take on DAR–MPM?

23 kg is the checked-baggage baseline our carrier table records for the 2 airlines on DAR–MPM, with a recorded diaspora uplift of up to +10 kg on LAM Mozambique Airlines. Baselines are economy figures and fare-family dependent. The allowance printed on your issued ticket overrides any table, this one included.

Read the baseline as an advertised standard rather than a guarantee. Airlines on DAR–MPM sell below it through hand-baggage and basic-economy fare families, and those are disproportionately the fares that appear as the corridor’s cheapest quote. The only allowance that binds anyone is the one printed on the ticket you hold.

Where our table records a migrant or diaspora uplift — +10 kg on LAM Mozambique Airlines and +5 kg on Kenya Airways — three exclusions usually bite. The uplift attaches to nominated corridors rather than the whole network; it rarely survives onto a codeshare or interline segment operated and ticketed by a different airline; and the deepest-discount fare buckets are commonly carved out. None of that makes the uplift fictional, but it does mean it has to be confirmed against your booking class, in writing, before you pack to it.

Is the cheap DAR–MPM itinerary really nonstop?

3.0 hours is the scheduled nonstop block time on DAR–MPM; any itinerary a search returns well above that is connecting, whatever the screen calls it. “Direct” is a flight-number description, not a promise of a single takeoff and landing. Two separately issued sectors are not one contract.

The distinction is not pedantry. A direct flight keeps one flight number through an intermediate stop, so it can sit in the nonstop filter of a search engine while adding an hour on the ground and a second departure to miss. A connecting itinerary changes flight number and usually aircraft. On DAR–MPM the practical test is the elapsed-time figure: compare it against the 3.0-hour block time before you compare prices.

The second trap is the ticket, not the routing. Two cheap sectors bought separately to reach Maputo are not one contract: your bag is not through-checked, you re-clear security and often immigration at the transfer point, and if the first leg lands late the second airline owes you nothing — no rebooking, no refund, no duty of care. A single ticket that costs more can be the cheaper outcome the first time anything slips.

Search live fares

3 weekly departures across 2 carriers mean a live DAR–MPM search returns several price points for the same day; the most recent weekly reading in our fare log was $460. Scheduled nonstop block time is 3.0 hours, so any result far above that is connecting whatever the screen says.

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Comparing DAR–MPM quotes fairly takes three corrections. Passenger count and cabin have to match across the tabs you are comparing. Elapsed time has to be read beside the price, since a connection can add most of a day to the 3.0-hour nonstop. And the baggage line has to be checked, because the cheapest fare family is usually the one carrying the least.

Date flexibility beats every other lever on DAR–MPM. Month-scanning surfaces the seasonal shape our fare log records; repeated searching on one fixed date mostly surfaces the same fare bucket. When the calendar is not negotiable — pilgrimage, school holidays, a job start — the useful move is to buy sooner, because scarcity, not timing, is what sets the price then.

About Maputo

3 catalogued corridors in this site’s data reach Maputo (MPM), Maputo International, ICAO FQMA, from 3 catalogued origins and 5 carriers in total. That count is this site’s coverage of Maputo, not the airport’s published schedule. Each of those corridors has its own guide with carriers, weekly frequency, scheduled block time and whatever the fare cache holds.

Maputo, Mozambique — destination on the intra-Africa + Gulf hub transit corridor. Destination currency: USD (we quote in USD throughout this guide).

Beyond DAR, our catalogue reaches Maputo from 2 other origins: Johannesburg (JNB) and Luanda (LAD). That matters when the DAR–MPM fare is unattractive: on a continent where positioning flights are cheap, flying out of a different gateway is a real option, and each of those corridors has its own guide, carriers and cached fare floor on this site.

Where our airport file holds no coordinates, hub carriers or country row for a destination, this page says less rather than guessing — no distance band, no hub analysis, no currency note. Maputo is catalogued here on the strength of the DAR–MPM corridor itself: the carriers our route file records, the estimated weekly frequency, the scheduled block time and whatever the fare cache has seen. That is a narrower page, and an honest one.

FAQ

Which airlines fly Dar es Salaam to Maputo? Direct DAR-MPM flights are operated by LAM Mozambique Airlines, Kenya Airways. Compare baggage baseline and alliance in the carrier table above.

How long is the DAR-MPM flight and how often does it run? Block time is about 3.0 hours. The DAR-MPM route runs roughly 3 flights per week across all carriers.

How much does a DAR-MPM flight cost and when is it cheapest? Typical economy fares sit in the $500-1,500 USD band. Intra-Africa and Gulf-hub transit fares move week-to-week; 4-8 weeks is the typical sweet spot.

What is the checked baggage allowance on DAR-MPM? It varies by carrier and fare class — see the baggage-baseline column in the carrier table above. Full-service carriers usually include 23-30 kg, while low-cost carriers sell it as an add-on. Confirm on the airline’s site before booking. Diaspora travellers should check each carrier’s extra-baggage uplift.

What currency is used in Maputo? Maputo uses USD. Fares in this guide are quoted in USD; budget on-the-ground spending in USD.

Related routes and reading

2 pages below connect to DAR–MPM through the data: a shared airport, a shared operating carrier, or the same audience cluster in our segmentation. Each is annotated with what it actually contains, so you can decide before clicking. Each corridor entry carries that route’s carriers, estimated weekly frequency, scheduled block time and demand score straight from our route file.

• Dar es Salaam airport (DAR) — Julius Nyerere International, Tanzania: 11 catalogued departure corridors and 2 arrival corridors.
• Maputo airport (MPM) — Maputo International, Mozambique: 0 catalogued departure corridors and 3 arrival corridors.

These links come out of the data rather than an editorial wish-list. Two pages are connected when they share an airport, a carrier, a destination country or an audience cluster, which means the list is stable as the catalogue grows and does not drift toward whatever term happens to rank. Skip what does not match your trip.

Each airport page goes wider than this one: every catalogued route at that field, which carriers are actually based there, the alliance spread and the passenger rights regime of its country. That last item is the reason both ends of DAR–MPM are linked — on a disruption, the departure airport’s jurisdiction is what decides your remedy.