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Chileka International Airport (BLZ)

Blantyre, Malawi · ICAO FWCL · IATA BLZ

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Chileka International Airport (FWCL)10281533
Map: OpenStreetMap contributors, captured 21 Oct 2026. North is up and the drawing is simplified. Each runway is labelled at its ends.
Location
Blantyre, Malawi
ICAO code
FWCL
IATA code
BLZ
Elevation
2,555 ft
Longest runway
7,628 ft (10/28)
Runways
2
Size class
Large
Position
-15.6772, 34.9723

About FWCL

Chileka International Airport (BLZ) is a large airport in Blantyre, Malawi, with the ICAO code FWCL. Its two runways are 10/28 and 15/33. The longer one, 10/28, is 7,628 ft. All of them have hard surfaces. The OpenStreetMap layout shows 6 taxiway segments, 3 aprons and 2 terminal outlines. In the route snapshot of 14 Oct 2026, 3 airlines have 8 routes through FWCL. Its most frequent links are Johannesburg (JNB), Lumbadzi (LLW) and Addis Ababa (ADD).

Runways

Runways, longest first
RunwayLengthWidthSurfaceLights
10 / 287,628 ft98 ftHardLit
15 / 334,501 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 These are standing schedules, not live flights, and they can be out of date.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

  • Ethiopian ETH2 routes
  • South African SAA2 routes

Also flying here, shown by airline code: MWI.

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.