Rantings of a Road Warrior

My sis­ter is get­ting mar­ried in Lusaka in Zam­bia. Below is a quick list of air­lines and how you can get to Zam­bia from Europe and the Mid­dle East.

FLIGHTS

Fly­ing to Lusaka Air­port (IATA Air­port code: LUN)

Direct flights from Europe:

British Air­ways from Lon­don Heathrow (LHR). Every Wednes­day, Fri­day, Sunday.

A com­pre­hen­sive list is on:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lusaka_International_Airport#Airlines_and_destinations

Indi­rect flights:

Your options are gen­er­ally con­nect­ing in Johan­nes­burg, as most of the flights from Lusaka end up in Johannesburg.

Flights to Johan­nes­burg are very fre­quent, with most air­lines oper­at­ing daily.

Air­france: Paris

British Air­ways: Lon­don
Cathay Pacific: Hong Kong
Delta Air Lines: Atlanta
EgyptAir: Cairo
Emi­rates: Dubai
Eti­had Air­ways: Abu Dhabi
Iberia: Madrid
KLM: Ams­ter­dam
Lufthansa: Frank­furt
Qatar Air­ways: Doha
Saudi Ara­bian Air­lines: Jed­dah
South African Air­ways: Accra, Blan­tyre, Buenos Aires-Ezeiza, Dakar, Dar es Salaam, Entebbe, Frank­furt, Harare, Hong Kong, Kin­shasa, Lagos, Lilongwe, Liv­ing­stone, London-Heathrow, Luanda, Lubum­bashi, Lusaka, Maputo, Mau­ri­tius, Mum­bai, Munich, New York-JFK, Perth, São Paulo-Guarulhos, Vic­to­ria Falls, Washington-Dulles, Wind­hoek
Swiss Inter­na­tional Air Lines: Zürich
TAP Por­tu­gal: Lis­bon, Maputo
Turk­ish Air­lines: Istanbul-Atatürk
Vir­gin Atlantic: London-Heathrow

Then you can con­nect to one of the many daily flights from Johaness­burg on South African Air­lines, Zam­bezi Air­ways, or Air Namibia.

Kayak.com, expedia.com/co.uk and opodo.com are good places to buy the tick­ets from.

VISA

This web­site will tell you if you need a visa or not, and the cost of the visa.

http://www.zambiaimmigration.gov.zm/zims/VISA_FEES.aspx

Things to do in Zambia

Zam­bia is famous for Vic­to­ria falls, one of the largest falls of the world.

Safaris are great way of expe­ri­enc­ing the wildlife in Africa.

and Plenty more, but I haven’t fin­ished my research yet

Hope this helps, if you have any­thing to add or ques­tions, please do give me a shout.