No fares appear in this guide. Airlines have not released tournament-period pricing, and a number published now would be wrong by the time you read it.
Flexibility is the thing you are buying
Before the draw, the risk in a flight booking is not the price — it is the date. Your team could be based in Nairobi, Dar es Salaam or Kampala, and those are three different itineraries out of most departure cities.
The cheapest fare is almost always the least changeable one. Booking it early, against a fixture nobody has published, is how supporters end up paying twice: once for the original ticket and again to move it.
The gateways decide the routing
Each host country has one main international gateway, and they are not equally well connected. Nairobi has the widest choice of direct routes from across Africa; Entebbe and Dar es Salaam are typically reached with one connection from West and Central Africa.
Where you land is not always where you will be based. Entebbe, for example, is about 40km from central Kampala — the arrival is the flight plus the transfer, and it is worth planning as one thing.
- Kenya — Jomo Kenyatta International, Nairobi (NBO)
- Tanzania — Julius Nyerere International, Dar es Salaam (DAR)
- Uganda — Entebbe International (EBB), serving Kampala
What to check before you commit
Most of what goes wrong with tournament flights is knowable in advance and has nothing to do with price.
- Whether the fare can be changed, and what that costs
- Baggage allowance, particularly if you are travelling with a group
- Connection times that survive a delay rather than the timetable
- Whether your routing transits a country that requires its own transit permission
- That the name on the ticket matches the passport exactly
Where we come in
We hold routings rather than guessing at them, and we price the flight against the rest of the trip instead of in isolation — a cheaper flight that forces an extra night in a host city at tournament rates is not cheaper.
