Sir Seretse Khama International Airport GBE / FBSK
Gaborone · BW · Civil Aviation Authority of Botswana (CAAB) — state parastatal regulator that directly owns and manages the airport (no separate corporatized airport company, unlike ACSA or GACL)
408kpax · 2024
Limited hoursInternational · customs & immigrationJet A-1 · bonded
ICAO / IATAFBSK / GBE
OperatorCivil Aviation Authority of Botswana (CAAB) — state parastatal regulator that directly owns and manages the airport (no separate corporatized airport company, unlike ACSA or GACL)
Coordinates24.5553°S, 25.9183°E
Elevation3,299 ft · 1,006 m
Time zoneCAT (UTC+2, no DST)
Passengers / yr407,813 (2024)
CustomsYes
Border controlYes
SchengenNo
FuelJet A-1
BondedYes
AIP referenceFBSK — AIP Botswana (CAAB)
Operating hoursNot H24. CAAB's own contact page lists Mon-Fri 08:00-18:00, but that reads as office/administrative contact hours (scheduled international carriers operate on weekends too), not necessarily the AIP-published aerodrome operating hours; could not confirm the exact published hours against Botswana's eAIP. Area Control Centre co-located here operates 24h for enroute airspace. Confirm exact hours and early/late ops via NOTAM/PPR.
TerminalsSingle passenger terminal, expanded 2008-2011 from 3,140 sqm to about 17,000 sqm with a design capacity near 900 pax/hour; includes check-in, customs/immigration, bank/bureau de change, ATM, duty-free and craft/book retail, snack bars, and an Air Botswana-managed CIP lounge
Runways (1)
- 08/26 · 4,000 m / 13,123 ft · 45 m wide · Concrete · ILS CAT I (RWY 08 only; LOC/DME backup, no glidepath guidance to RWY 26)
Botswana's only scheduled international gateway; the 4,000 m concrete runway (PCN 75/R/B/W/T, two 7.5 m shoulders, two 60 m stopways), long relative to actual traffic, was built oversized to accommodate wide-body diversions and hot-and-high performance at 1,006 m elevation. Air Botswana is the mainline hub carrier; SA Airlink, Ethiopian Airlines, and South African Airways (mainline, to Johannesburg-O.R. Tambo) round out the scheduled international operators as of 2026. Pax figure (407,813, CY2024, 10,755 movements) is CAAB's own published air traffic statistic, not an estimate.
Services
Available
On request / PPR
Seasonal / ageing
Unconfirmed / not listed
Ground handling
Available · 2 providers
Air Botswana
Self-handles its own flights and offers third-party ramp, passenger, crew and baggage handling for commercial, business-aviation, charter and cargo aircraft at Sir Seretse Khama International Airport, its home base; CIP lounge at SSKIA is managed by Air Botswana, confirmed independently on airbotswana.co.bw/ground-handling and on the airport-technology.com project profile for SSKIA.
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Aircraft Ground Handling (Pty) Ltd (AGH)
Full passenger, ramp and turnaround handling (marshalling, baggage, VIP/diplomatic/emergency passenger assistance) at Sir Seretse Khama International Airport, its Gaborone home station and HQ since 2015; CAAB certified and, per its own site text, operates in compliance with CAAB, ISAGO and ICAO Annex 14 safety guidelines (agh.co.bw). Named client SLAs include WFS, CemAir, Antonov and Universal Air Evac.
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Verified 2 weeks ago · unconfirmed source
Aircraft fuel
Available
Puma Energy (Botswana) Ltd
Jet A-1 and Avgas into-plane supplier at Sir Seretse Khama International Airport, one of four Botswana airports it supplies (Gaborone, Maun, Kasane, Francistown) from its own airport fuelling depots (pumaenergy.com/botswana; thevoicebw.com). Combined Jet A-1 storage across those four airports is reported at roughly 859,000 L and Avgas at roughly 234,000 L nationally (not an SSKIA-specific figure), sourced via South Africa's NATREF refinery plus alternative Walvis Bay (Namibia) and Matola (Mozambique) routes (thevoicebw.com, 'Puma Energy's aviation fuel supply secure', 17 May 2024). A claimed 'eAviation' digital refuelling system could not be confirmed on Puma Energy's own site or in this article and has been removed. · 24/7
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De-icing
Not listed
Part-145 line maintenance
Not listed
Part-145 base maintenance
Not listed
Component shops & overhaul
Not listed
Flight catering
On request
Aircraft Ground Handling (Pty) Ltd (AGH)
Arranges and coordinates in-flight catering for handled flights at SSKIA as part of its concierge services; AGH itself is not a flight kitchen (agh.co.bw).
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Aircraft cleaning
Not listed
Ground support equipment
Available
Aircraft Ground Handling (Pty) Ltd (AGH)
Supplies and operates ground-handling equipment for passenger and cargo aircraft turnarounds at SSKIA (agh.co.bw); a competing GSE/ground-handling supplier (GAS Aviation) was also found to advertise service at Gaborone but is not independently verified here.
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Verified 2 weeks ago · unconfirmed source
Cargo handling
Available · 3 providers
Air Botswana
Cargo handling offered as part of station ground-handling services at SSKIA (airbotswana.co.bw/ground-handling, which lists Aircraft Handling, Passenger and Crew Handling, and Cargo Handling among its services); tonnage and warehouse details unconfirmed.
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Aircraft Ground Handling (Pty) Ltd (AGH)
Cargo GSE coordination, documentation and safe handling from arrival to departure for passenger and cargo aircraft at SSKIA (agh.co.bw).
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Verified 2 weeks ago · unconfirmed source
DSV Botswana (Pty) Ltd
DSV is a genuine global freight forwarder and Botswana appears among its listed operating countries (dsv.com office-finder country list), but a specific Gaborone air-freight/customs-brokerage warehouse near Sir Seretse Khama International Airport could not be independently confirmed: the cited address (Commerce Industrial Park), warehouse-size figures (400 sqm free / 100 sqm bonded) and contact details could not be verified, and the previously cited email domain bw.dsv.com does not resolve (DNS lookup failed), so contact details have been removed pending verification. Direct on-airport cargo-terminal presence remains unconfirmed.
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Aviation security
Unconfirmed
Botswana Police Service - Airport Police (SSKIA)
Confirmed on the Civil Aviation Authority of Botswana's own Sir Seretse Khama International Airport page (caab.co.bw), which lists an 'Officer in Charge Airport Police' contact at ••• alongside the Airport Manager, Rescue Coordination Centre and Air Traffic Control lines; CAAB itself provides aviation-security regulatory oversight and screener certification under Annex 17 via its National Civil Aviation Security Programme, but no separate named private-sector screening contractor for GBE could be confirmed.
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Passenger & crew transport
Available · 4 providers
Aircraft Ground Handling (Pty) Ltd (AGH)
Passenger and crew transportation coordination at SSKIA as part of its concierge services (agh.co.bw); dedicated crew/passenger stairs beyond general ramp GSE are unconfirmed.
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Avis
Car-rental desk in the terminal at Sir Seretse Khama International Airport, confirmed on the airport-technology.com project profile page (airport-technology.com/projects/sirseretsekhama/), which lists Avis, Budget and Imperial as the airport's car-rental operators; current concession status and desk contact details unconfirmed as the profile page is undated boilerplate.
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Budget
Car-rental desk in the terminal at Sir Seretse Khama International Airport, confirmed on the airport-technology.com project profile page (airport-technology.com/projects/sirseretsekhama/), which lists Avis, Budget and Imperial as the airport's car-rental operators; current concession status and desk contact details unconfirmed as the profile page is undated boilerplate.
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Imperial Car Rental
Car-rental desk in the terminal at Sir Seretse Khama International Airport, confirmed on the airport-technology.com project profile page (airport-technology.com/projects/sirseretsekhama/), which lists Avis, Budget and Imperial as the airport's car-rental operators; current concession status and desk contact details unconfirmed as the profile page is undated boilerplate.
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Flight support
Available
Aircraft Ground Handling (Pty) Ltd (AGH)
Landing-permit applications, flight-plan/airport-information support and VIP-lounge/visa coordination for handled flights at SSKIA, via a 24/7/365 ops desk plus WhatsApp/Telegram lines (agh.co.bw). · 24/7 ops desk
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Hotel & travel
On request
Aircraft Ground Handling (Pty) Ltd (AGH)
Arranges crew and passenger hotel accommodation on request as part of handling services at SSKIA (agh.co.bw); AGH itself is not a hotel operator.
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