The sector is held by Ethiopian Airlines.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
ACC Accra to ADD Addis Ababa
Kotoka International, Ghana, to Bole International, Ethiopia. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About twice a day
- Great circle
- 4,312 km
- Block, estimated
- 5h 42m
- Door to door
- 12h 27m
What ACC to ADD looks like
The ACC to ADD sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Accra ACC to Addis Ababa ADD is a long haul sector of 4,312 km by great circle, flown nonstop about twice a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 4,312 km, 880 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 5h 42m.
Accra ACC is a smaller airport in the network held here, 32 scheduled destinations and 67.9 departures a day. Addis Ababa ADD has 114 destinations and 223.1 departures a day.
Addis Ababa carries about 3.3 times the departures of Accra, so a courier who has to be rebooked has far more to work with at one end of this pair than at the other.
Addis Ababa is 3 hours ahead of Accra all year.
The pair sits inside Africa, a corridor the written lanes do not cover, which is the reason a computed page for it exists at all.
Who flies the sector, and how often
Average daily frequencies on ACC to ADD from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| ACC to ADD | 2.43 | 17 | Ethiopian Airlines |
| ADD to ACC | 2.57 | 18 | Ethiopian Airlines |
One carrier holds the sector, Ethiopian Airlines, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
Between them the two directions put about 35 departures a week on ACC to ADD, which is the number that decides whether a seat can be found today or on Thursday.
The clock from collection to signature
The same ground timings the route calculator starts from, applied to the 5h 42m block time on ACC to ADD. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to ACC | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At ACC before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| ACC to ADD in the air, estimated | 342 min | 10h 12m |
| Formalities at ADD | 90 min | 11h 42m |
| Delivery run in Addis Ababa | 45 min | 12h 27m |
| Door to door | 747 min | 12h 27m |
On the desk standard ground timings, ninety minutes to collect and reach the airport, three hours at the airport before departure, ninety minutes of arrival formalities and a forty five minute delivery run, the door to door figure for ACC to ADD is 12h 27m.
A courier who leaves Accra at 09:00 local is on the ground in Addis Ababa at about 17:42 local and at the door by 19:57 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Addis Ababa, the last useful departure from Accra is around 07:03 local.
At 12h 27m the mission uses most of a sixteen hour duty day, which leaves no room for a delay before a rest at the far end becomes the honest answer.
When the nonstop does not work
Every airport that joins the two ends, ranked by when they land, among the ones whose weaker leg is dependable enough to plan on. Connection time is allowed for the size of the hub. 20 of them join ACC to ADD.
| Connecting at | ACC to hub, flights a day | Hub to ADD, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lome LFW | 3 | 1.14 | 4,317 | 7h 15m |
| Lagos LOS | 7.43 | 2.43 | 4,317 | 7h 18m |
| Abuja ABV | 2.29 | 2.14 | 4,364 | 7h 19m |
| Abidjan ABJ | 4 | 1.14 | 5,148 | 8h 19m |
| Ouagadougou OUA | 0.57 | 0.57 | 5,182 | 8h 27m |
| Nairobi NBO | 1 | 3.29 | 5,355 | 8h 32m |
One nonstop a day means one chance a day, so the connections below are what a consignment that arrives at ACC in the afternoon actually flies on.
20 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Lome LFW, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about once a day.
Through LFW the routing covers 4,317 km against the 4,312 km nonstop track and takes about 7h 15m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 60 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is only 1h 33m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Lagos LOS at 7h 18m and Abuja ABV at 7h 19m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
Plan Accra to Addis Ababa yourself
The same tool the dispatchers use, open to anybody and free. It is loaded with this pair already. Change either end, add a stopover or a preferred airline, and it works out the connection, the transit and the door to door clock, with the real departures underneath. Put it on your own site if it is useful to you.
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Where this came from, and where to look next
- Carriers and frequencies: AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics, retrieved 2026-09-07. Average daily flights, not a timetable.
- Distances: great circle from published coordinates. They read short against a flown track, which is why the block time above applies a factor to them.
- Block and connection times: the same model the route calculator lower down this page runs, at the same rounding.
- Restrictions: the airport notes file, checked 2026-09-07.
- Industrial sites: public company information. Nothing here says or implies that any company named is a customer of any courier operator.
Who publishes this. OnBoard Courier is a placement desk in Dubai. An assignment is carried out by a vetted partner operator, with the desk as the single point of contact from the quote to the signature. This page exists because our own dispatchers need the answer for ACC to ADD in the twenty minutes before a promise is made, and a reference only one operator can read is not a reference. Free to read, quote and cite. Found an error? Tell us and we will correct it.
If you need something moved rather than looked up, the desk prices a hand carry in fifteen minutes.
- The ACC airport entry
- The ADD airport entry
- Hand carry into Ghana
- Hand carry into Ethiopia
- The written lane, Dubai to Accra
- The written lane, Dubai to Addis Ababa
- The route calculator
More pairs through ACC and ADD: Accra to Beirut, Accra to Lagos, Accra to Casablanca, Accra to Johannesburg, Accra to Nairobi, Accra to Cairo, Accra to Dar es Salaam, Addis Ababa to Abu Dhabi.