LAM Mozambique Airlines (IATA LM) is a full-service carrier based in Mozambique, a member of the - alliance. Across the corridors catalogued here it flies 6 routes from African airports, reaching 4 destinations in 4 countries, with home hubs at Maputo (MPM). Most of these are intra-Africa and Gulf-hub business corridors. Its standard checked-baggage baseline is 23 kg, lifted by about 10 kg on diaspora and migrant-worker corridors. In its home African markets brand strength rates 6/10.
At a glance
3 catalogued corridors on this site are flown by LAM Mozambique Airlines (LM), a full-service carrier based in Mozambique with no alliance recorded in our carrier file, with a 23 kg checked-baggage baseline. 2 of those corridors are flagged in our route file as labour-migration or diaspora routes.
| Attribute | Detail |
|---|---|
| IATA code | LM |
| Home country | Mozambique |
| Alliance | - |
| Carrier type | full-service |
| Checked-baggage baseline | 23 kg |
| Diaspora / migrant baggage uplift | +10 kg |
| Hajj / Umrah charter service | No |
| Brand strength (home markets) | 6/10 |
Take the baseline as a starting point rather than an entitlement: the 23 kg figure is the standard economy checked allowance, and every airline sells fare families below it. Hand-baggage and basic-economy buckets are precisely the ones that surface as the cheapest quote in any fare cache, ours included. What your ticket grants is on the itinerary, and it overrides any table.
Our carrier file records a diaspora and migrant-worker baggage uplift of about +10 kg for LAM Mozambique Airlines. Read it as a corridor-specific promotion: uplifts of this kind attach to nominated routes and fare families, are rarely honoured on a codeshare or interline segment operated by another airline, and usually exclude the deepest-discount buckets. It is real, but it has to be confirmed against your own booking class before you pack to it.
Routes LAM Mozambique Airlines flies from Africa — 6 corridors
3 catalogued corridors carry LAM Mozambique Airlines in our route file, reaching 1 destination and totalling about 20 weekly departures, with block times from 1.0 h to 5.5 h. 2 of them are flagged as labour-migration or diaspora corridors in our route file. This is the African-outbound catalogue, not the airline’s global network.
| Route | Freq/wk | Block (h) | Market low (USD) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Johannesburg (JNB) → Maputo (MPM) | ~14 | ~1.0 | $205 |
| Dar es Salaam (DAR) → Maputo (MPM) | ~3 | ~3.0 | — |
| Luanda (LAD) → Maputo (MPM) | ~3 | ~5.5 | — |
| Maputo (MPM) → Johannesburg (JNB) | — | — | — |
| Maputo (MPM) → Dar es Salaam (DAR) | — | — | — |
| Maputo (MPM) → Luanda (LAD) | — | — | — |
The USD market-low column is the cheapest fare our Travelpayouts cache has seen on that corridor across all carriers, not a LAM Mozambique Airlines-only price; use it as a floor when comparing.
2 of those corridors are flagged as labour-migration or diaspora routes. That flag is why the baggage column matters more than the seat map on this carrier’s page: on a diaspora corridor the second checked bag, and whether it is bought online or at the counter, routinely costs more than the fare gap between LAM Mozambique Airlines and the next airline on the route.
Passenger compensation rights
1 instrument covers LAM Mozambique Airlines across most of its catalogued network: the Montreal Convention 1999, which caps baggage and provable delay losses at about 1,288 SDR per passenger (the Special Drawing Right cap, roughly $1,700 USD at recent IMF rates). No EU261-style fixed cash compensation scheme reaches these corridors, so a long delay carries no statutory payout.
LAM Mozambique Airlines’s catalogued African routes sit outside the EU261/UK261/GACA/APPR/DOT cash-compensation schemes; the Montreal Convention still covers baggage loss and provable delay losses on any international sector.
| Regime | When it applies | Remedy for a long delay / cancellation |
|---|---|---|
| Montreal Convention 1999 | Any international itinerary — baggage and delay losses. | Compensation for lost, damaged or delayed baggage and provable losses caused by delay, up to about 1,288 SDR per passenger. |
| Regime | When it applies | Remedy for a long delay / cancellation |
|---|
What does not cover a LAM Mozambique Airlines itinerary is worth stating plainly, because claim services will open a file regardless: EU261 — no catalogued corridor here touches an EU/EEA airport, and carrier nationality alone never triggers it, UK261 — no leg touches a UK airport, US DOT rules — no United States endpoint and Canada’s APPR — no Canadian endpoint. Filing under the wrong scheme costs weeks and ends in a rejection. Match the regulation to the departure airport and the operating carrier first, then claim.
When LAM Mozambique Airlines is the right choice
3 catalogued corridors is the practical scope of this decision: LAM Mozambique Airlines is worth choosing where it flies your corridor nonstop, where its 23 kg baseline beats the alternative, and where the schedule fits. Compare the block-time column, not only the price column.
You should choose LAM Mozambique Airlines for its included 23 kg allowance and through-checked bags on connecting itineraries; diaspora and migrant-worker travellers gain from the ~10 kg extra-baggage uplift. Compare it against the other carriers on each corridor in the route table above before booking LAM Mozambique Airlines.
The honest counter-case first. A single carrier is rarely the right answer on every corridor, and on a route where LAM Mozambique Airlines connects while a competitor flies nonstop, the competitor usually wins on total elapsed time even at a higher fare. Compare the block-time column, not just the price column, on each corridor page — the difference between a nonstop and a one-stop routing on this site’s long-haul corridors is regularly eight hours or more.
FAQ
What is LAM Mozambique Airlines’s checked baggage allowance? LAM Mozambique Airlines’s checked-baggage baseline is 23 kg, normally included in its standard fares.
Is LAM Mozambique Airlines part of an airline alliance? LAM Mozambique Airlines is a member of the - alliance.
What kind of airline is LAM Mozambique Airlines? LAM Mozambique Airlines (LM) is a full-service carrier from Mozambique.
How many routes does LAM Mozambique Airlines fly from Africa? LAM Mozambique Airlines operates 6 routes from African airports catalogued here — see the list above; each links to a route guide.
Can I claim compensation on a LAM Mozambique Airlines flight? LAM Mozambique Airlines’s African routes carry no fixed cash-compensation scheme, but the Montreal Convention covers baggage loss and provable delay losses.
What is the cheapest route LAM Mozambique Airlines flies from Africa? In our fare cache the lowest market fare on a LAM Mozambique Airlines corridor is about $205 on Johannesburg–Maputo (JNB-MPM); prices move with season, so check live fares before booking.
Sources
1 primary source cited on this page is regulator and government material, not secondary summaries. Each is listed with what it actually governs, so a claim on this page can be checked against the instrument it comes from. Where a value is missing from our own files we leave the cell blank rather than estimate it.
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AirHelp — flight-compensation claims — a commercial claims service, cited as the industry explainer alongside the regulator rather than instead of it.
The sourcing rule here is simple: a regulator’s own text for anything with legal effect, and a commercial explainer only as a secondary reading beside it. Amounts stay denominated as the instrument denominates them — euro, pound, Canadian dollar, SDR — even though every fare on this site is quoted in USD, because a converted tariff is a moving number pretending to be a fixed one.
Fares, frequencies, block times, baggage baselines and coordinates on this page come from this site’s own data files rather than from an external source: a route file, a carrier file, an airport file, a Travelpayouts fare cache and a weekly fare-history log covering 161 corridors. Where a value is missing we leave the cell blank instead of estimating it, which is why some tables have dashes.
Related
3 related pages follow. Each is linked because it shares an endpoint, a carrier, a country or an audience cluster with this one — the annotations say what each adds, so the ones that do not apply to your trip can be skipped.
- Maputo airport (MPM) — Maputo International, Mozambique: 0 catalogued departure corridors and 3 arrival corridors.
- Flights to Angola — country landing page: 2 catalogued corridors from African airports, carriers, visa row and the USD fare floor we have on file.
- Flights to Mozambique — country landing page: 3 catalogued corridors from African airports, carriers, visa row and the USD fare floor we have on file.
Internal links on this site are placed from the data, not from a keyword list: a corridor is linked when it shares an origin, a destination, a carrier or an audience cluster with the page you are on. If a link above looks unrelated to your trip, it probably shares a carrier or a hub rather than a destination.
Corridor pages carry the per-route detail — carriers, weekly frequency, scheduled block time, great-circle distance and whatever the fare cache holds. Airport pages carry the full catalogued route list at that field, the based hub carriers and the compensation regime of the country it sits in. Carrier pages carry the baggage baseline, alliance and the network as this catalogue records it.