ADD Addis Ababa

How deep the ADD board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from ADD. This reads the same 114 destinations back for the questions a dispatcher asks second: how much of the board rests on one airline, how much of it runs less than daily, whether the return leg is as thick as the outbound, what the clock here does to a Gulf working day and which of the destinations shut at night, all of it computed on 2026-09-07 from AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics.

• 102of the 114 destinations are flown by one airline
• 28destinations run less than once a day
• 10destinations have four or more departures a day
• 100%of the destinations name Ethiopian Airlines, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at ADD

15 airlines appear on the ADD board and they do not hold it evenly. Ethiopian Airlines is on 114 of the 114 destinations, 100 per cent of them, and on 102 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 223.1 of the 223.1 departures a day this airport files, though other airlines fly some of the same sectors, so read that as reach rather than as a share of the aircraft.

The next largest presence is flynas on 2 destinations. 13 of the 15 airlines at ADD appear on a single destination each, which is the long tail every airport carries, and none of it is a rebooking option when the sector you need is the one that fell over.

An airport held this tightly is quick to book and slow to recover: with 114 of the 114 destinations on one airline, the second aircraft on an ADD sector is usually another Ethiopian Airlines aircraft, and when there is not one the desk is looking at another airport rather than another airline. No alternate airport within road reach is held for ADD, so that second look is a longer road leg or a different day.

How much of the ADD board is daily

Of the 114 destinations, 86 are flown at least once a day and 28 are not, 1 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the ADD board is flown about once a day.

An average of 0.14 flights a day is the schedule statistic, and it is worth translating it before anything is promised to anybody: ADD to Bulawayo (BUQ) is about one a week, so a missed departure there is not a delay of hours, it is the next slot.

The five busiest destinations carry 49.3 of the 223.1 departures a day, 22.1 per cent of the whole board. The other 109 destinations are spread widely enough that a courier who misses the first departure at ADD usually has somewhere else to look on the same board.

Destination	Country	The only airline on it	Flights a week	km	Routing
Bulawayo BUQ	Zimbabwe	Ethiopian Airlines	1	3,411	plan this
Hyderabad HYD	India	Ethiopian Airlines	2	4,380	the pair page
Malabo SSG	Equatorial Guinea	Ethiopian Airlines	2	3,374	plan this
Atlanta ATL	the United States	Ethiopian Airlines	3	12,382	plan this
Dhaka DAC	Bangladesh	Ethiopian Airlines	3	5,712	the pair page
Marseille MRS	France	Ethiopian Airlines	3	5,024	the pair page
Maun MUB	Botswana	Ethiopian Airlines	3	3,632	plan this
Ouagadougou OUA	Burkina Faso	Ethiopian Airlines	3	4,417	plan this
Port Louis MRU	Mauritius	Ethiopian Airlines	3	3,868	plan this
Bangalore BLR	India	Ethiopian Airlines	4	4,267	the pair page

The ten destinations out of ADD where one airline holds the sector and files fewer than seven departures a week, with the weekly figure taken as the average daily rate multiplied by seven rather than as a fixed timetable. 18 further destinations sit in the same position and are listed in the board above.

The way back from ADD

The desk holds the return direction for 92 of the 114 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On four of them the return into ADD runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gaps are Blantyre (BLZ) at 1.1 out a day against 0.43 back, Milan (MXP) at 2.3 out a day against 1 back and Libreville (LBV) at 0.71 out a day against 0.43 back.

It runs the other way as well: Kinshasa (FIH) files 2.3 a day back into ADD against 1.1 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at ADD

ADD keeps Africa/Addis_Ababa time, an hour behind Dubai all year.

When it is 09:00 on a Dubai working morning it is 08:00 at ADD, so a nine to six day at each end overlaps for eight hours. That is wide enough to settle a customs question at ADD and still make a departure the same day.

The night at ADD

7 of the destinations from here carry a documented night restriction of their own, which is a departure time question at this end rather than an arrival problem at the other.

Into Brussels (BRU) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from ADD that lands inside it leaves around 16:44, on a modelled block of 7h 16m. Into Frankfurt-am-Main (FRA) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from ADD that lands inside it leaves around 17:03, on a modelled block of 6h 57m. Into Geneva (GVA) the door shuts at 00:00 local, so the last departure from ADD that lands inside it leaves around 18:16, on a modelled block of 6h 44m. Those three departure times out of ADD are worked backwards from the published window with the block time model this site uses everywhere, 720 to 880 km an hour by sector length with thirty minutes on the ground, so they are arithmetic rather than a timetable and the desk checks the published departure before it promises the landing.

Where ADD turns up on the rest of this site

ADD carries two other pages on this site as well: the Ethiopia country desk, which sets out the customs practice, the working week and the road legs behind this airport and the ADD transit page for the connecting case, where a courier changes aircraft here rather than starting or finishing.

The site publishes 33 airport pair pages that start or end at ADD, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are Addis Ababa to Kampala (EBB), Addis Ababa to Jeddah (JED) and Addis Ababa to Dar es Salaam (DAR).

One of the 346 published hand carry lanes runs through this airport: Dubai to Addis Ababa. A lane page is the commercial version of the board above, with the customs, the ground legs and the price at ADD written out.

Two courier postings name ADD as the airport a courier here flies from: Addis Ababa and Nazrēt.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with ADD already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 114 destinations above.