Kilimanjaro International Airport (KIA)

Kilimanjaro International Airport is an international airport of Tanzania. Inaugurated in December 1971, Kilimanjaro airport (also called Mount Kilimanjaro Airport) spans over 108 sq km of space. In 1998, Kilimanjaro International airport became the first completely privatized airport in Tanzania and Africa. Today, it is managed and operated by Kilimanjaro Airport Development Company (KADCO).
The Airport is situated about half way between the town of Moshi on the lower slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro and the city of Arusha. Despite its small size, the airport can handle aircraft up to Boeing 747s. Statistics also suggest that the airport served 294,750 passengers in 2004. Its runaway can handle the Boeing 747-400 series.

Kilimanjaro Airport Runway

It handles Tanzania flights to the Kilimanjaro area including the cities of Arusha and Moshi; including tourist destinations of Mount Kilimanjaro, Arusha National Park, Ngorongoro Crater, and Serengeti National Park.
Airlines to Kilimanjaro Airport
KLM Airlines and British Airways are the only two International flight companies that fly non-stop to Kilimanjaro. (KLM has daily flights to/from Kilimanjaro International Airport directly from Amsterdam).
The airport as well handles indirect flights from U.K. with the prominent Airlines such as Condor, Ethiopian Airlines and Kenya Airways. These Airlines also operate direct flights to Tanzania from U.K. However, there are other regional carriers that can take one close to the mountain including

• Rwandair Express
• Fly540
• Air Kenya Express
• Precision Air
• Delta Airlines
• Air Burundi
• Regional Air Services

Airport Facilities
Kilimanjaro International Airport has all of the modern facilities that the larger airports have including a restaurant, money exchange centre, shopping arcade, duty free shops, clinic, business class lounge, VIP lounge and airport taxi services in the car park area near the departure lounge.
Arrivals Guidelines
Passengers arriving are escorted off the aircraft and taken directly to the arrival halls where they go through the immigration formalities of the country. Passengers will then immediately find themselves in the baggage reclaim area. Arrivals have a separate parking area and passengers can move very quickly into their onward transport.
Departures Guidelines
Travelers are dropped just outside the Check-In area. Here you are required to go through the security checkpoint in an open hall with well-marked check-In points. Passengers then move through a final security check and Immigration departure protocols before proceeding to the boarding exit.