Whether you have a layover, overnight sleepover or you are just quickly passing through, our Lubumbashi Airport Guide is a great place to start planning your visit. Here, you’ll find information on services and facilities available inside the airport – including details about airport lounges, WiFi, mobile charging points, lockers, 24-hour food options, nearby hotels, and everything in between.
FBM Airport Overview
To help you plan your layover or overnight sleepover, here is a quick run-down about what to expect during your time at Lubumbashi International Airport.
What to Expect
The small terminal at Lubumbashi Airport (code: FBM) handles a few regional routes. We cannot confirm whether eateries or shops are available, so plan ahead and bring snacks. WiFi is accessible inside the airport lounge. See Airport Lounges in the guide below for location and access information.
Sleeping in Lubumbashi Airport
We do not yet have any sleep-related airport reviews. For uninterrupted sleep, nearby hotels offer a shuttle service. See our Airport Hotels section below for more info, or read some traveller airport reviews for more tips.
To help us keep this guide up-to-date, you can add or update information or write a review to submit airport tips and photos. For additional airport information, continue scrolling down to explore more in our Lubumbashi Airport Guide.
In this guide we may refer to locations as “landside” and “airside”. Landside is the public area of the terminal located in the non-secure zone, before security. Airside is the secure area of the terminal that you must reach by going through security. For more information on Europe’s Schengen Area, click here.
Airport Hours
The airport is open 24 hours.
Airport Hotels
Lubumbashi Airport has no hotels, but you find a few small places along the road towards the city center (20+ minute drive away). Visit TripAdvisor to see a list of hotels in Lubumbashi, search for deals and read traveller reviews.
Airport Lounges
Pay-per-use, Single Visit Passes & Lounge Memberships
Regardless of what class of service you are flying, there is a lounge that you can enter through a lounge membership program. Visit the individual lounge page for more details about the lounge itself and learn how to gain access with just an economy class ticket!
- Malabar Business Travel Lounge – Location: Landside. Hours: open 24 hours. Lounge Access: Lounge membership programs.
Related Pages: Lubumbashi Airport Lounges
Rest & Relaxation Zones
No dedicated sleeping areas, quiet areas or rest zones exist. If this information has changed, you can click here to update this guide.
More Airport Information
Luggage Storage & Lockers – Not available.
Mobile Charging – At the time of this update, we had no information about mobile charging availability. If you know, click here to update this airport guide.
Showers – Not available.
SIM Cards – A reader has asked us to include where to buy SIM Cards. If you know, click here to update this airport guide.
WiFi / Internet – WiFi is available inside the lounge at Lubumbashi Airport. We did not have information about WiFi elsewhere in the terminal at the time of this update. If you know, click here to update this airport guide.
Hotel Shuttles
See also Airport Hotels above.
Last updated: 2024-02-20
This guide is for informational purposes only to assist with your planning. All information, including rates and hours, is subject to change at any time without notice. The information in this airport guide is based on information collected and/or received from the airports, lounges, hotels, transportation providers, and their websites. We are not representatives of any of the above-mentioned service providers. To report errors or to add/update any items mentioned in the guide: update the airport guide or write a review.