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Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo International Airport (BUQ)

Bulawayo, Zimbabwe · ICAO FVJN · IATA BUQ

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Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo International Airport (FVJN)13310220
Map: OpenStreetMap contributors, captured 21 Oct 2026. North is up and the drawing is simplified. Each runway is labelled at its ends.
Location
Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
ICAO code
FVJN
IATA code
BUQ
Elevation
4,359 ft
Longest runway
8,491 ft (13/31)
Runways
2
Size class
Large
Position
-20.0163, 28.6229

About FVJN

Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo International Airport (BUQ) is a large airport in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, with the ICAO code FVJN. Its two runways are 13/31 and 02/20. The longer one, 13/31, is 8,491 ft. All of them have hard surfaces. The OpenStreetMap layout shows 40 taxiway segments, 1 aprons and 1 terminal outlines. In the route snapshot of 14 Oct 2026, 5 airlines have 16 routes through FVJN. Its most frequent links are Johannesburg (JNB) and Addis Ababa (ADD).

Runways

Runways, longest first
RunwayLengthWidthSurfaceLights
13 / 318,491 ft148 ftHardLit
02 / 204,419 ft98 ftHardNot lit

Runway idents and sizes from OurAirports. The runway headings in the source do not always match the idents, so only the idents are shown.

Scheduled routes

Published route data from the snapshot of 14 Oct 2026. These are standing schedules, not live flights, and they can be out of date. Counts are routes in that snapshot.

Airlines flying here

  • South African SAA4 routes
  • Ethiopian ETH2 routes

Also flying here, shown by airline code: LNK, FJW, AZW.

Connected airports

Nearby airports with maps

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Sources: airport and runway data from OurAirports (public domain). Map data from OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Routes from Virtual Radar Server standing data (CC0), snapshot of 14 Oct 2026.