Mbeya Airport is an airport located in

Mbeya Region Mbeya Region (''Mkoa wa Mbeya'' in Swahili) is one of Tanzania's 31 administrative regions. The region covers an area of . The region is comparable in size to the combined land area of the nation state of Guinea Bissau. Mbeya Region is borde ...

Tanzania Tanzania (; ), officially the United Republic of Tanzania ( sw, Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania), is a country in East Africa within the African Great Lakes region. It borders Uganda to the north; Kenya to the northeast; Comoro Islands ...

. The airport is small and serves the city of

Mbeya Mbeya is a city located in south west Tanzania, Africa. Mbeya's urban population is 620,000 according to the 2022 census. Mbeya is the capital of the surrounding rural Mbeya region (population, with Mbeya, totals approx. 2 million). Mbeya is sit ...

. It is within the southern section of the city. The Mbeya

non-directional beacon A non-directional beacon (NDB) or non-directional radio beacon is a radio beacon which does not include directional information. Radio beacons are radio transmitters at a known location, used as an aviation or marine navigational aid. NDB are i ...

(Ident: MB) is located on the field. A new, larger airport at Songwe, west of the city, was opened in December 2012 and also serves Mbeya and

Songwe Region Songwe Region (''Mkoa wa Songwe'' in Swahili) is a region of Tanzania created on 29 January 2016 from the western half of Mbeya Region. Its capital is Vwawa. Geography Songwe Region borders the countries of Zambia and Malawi to the south: Tun ...

Airlines and destinations

References

External links

Tanzania Airports Authority(MBI) Mbeya Airport overview
on FlightStats.org
OpenStreetMap - Mbeya
* Airports in Tanzania Buildings and structures in the Mbeya Region {{Tanzania-airport-stub

Airlines and destinations

See also

References

External links