The sector is held by South African Airways.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
ACC Accra to JNB Johannesburg
Kotoka International, Ghana, to OR Tambo International, South Africa. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 6 times a week
- Great circle
- 4,674 km
- Block, estimated
- 6h 08m
- Door to door
- 12h 53m
What ACC to JNB looks like
The ACC to JNB sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Accra ACC to Johannesburg JNB is a long haul sector of 4,674 km by great circle, flown nonstop 6 times a week.
At the cruise speed this site models for 4,674 km, 880 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 6h 08m.
Accra ACC is a smaller airport in the network held here, 32 scheduled destinations and 67.9 departures a day. Johannesburg JNB has 77 destinations and 288.8 departures a day.
Johannesburg carries about 4.3 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.
Johannesburg is 2 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 JNB from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| ACC to JNB | 0.86 | 6 | South African Airways |
| JNB to ACC | 0.71 | 5 | South African Airways |
One carrier holds the sector, South African Airways, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
Between them the two directions put about 11 departures a week on ACC to JNB, 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 6h 08m block time on ACC to JNB. 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 JNB in the air, estimated | 368 min | 10h 38m |
| Formalities at JNB | 90 min | 12h 08m |
| Delivery run in Johannesburg | 45 min | 12h 53m |
| Door to door | 773 min | 12h 53m |
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 JNB is 12h 53m.
A courier who leaves Accra at 09:00 local is on the ground in Johannesburg at about 17:08 local and at the door by 19:23 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Johannesburg, the last useful departure from Accra is around 07:37 local.
At 12h 53m 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. 10 of them join ACC to JNB.
| Connecting at | ACC to hub, flights a day | Hub to JNB, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lagos LOS | 7.43 | 0.57 | 4,925 | 8h 02m |
| Nairobi NBO | 1 | 4.43 | 7,103 | 10h 46m |
| Addis Ababa ADD | 2.43 | 3.43 | 8,380 | 12h 21m |
| Cairo CAI | 0.57 | 0.71 | 10,548 | 14h 58m |
| Istanbul IST | 1.43 | 1.14 | 12,391 | 17h 26m |
| Dubai DXB | 1.57 | 4.57 | 12,702 | 17h 48m |
10 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Lagos LOS, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 4 times a week.
Through LOS the routing covers 4,925 km against the 4,674 km nonstop track and takes about 8h 02m 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 54m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Nairobi NBO at 10h 46m and Addis Ababa ADD at 12h 21m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
Plan Accra to Johannesburg 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 JNB 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 JNB airport entry
- Hand carry into Ghana
- Hand carry into South Africa
- The written lane, Dubai to Accra
- The written lane, Abu Dhabi to Johannesburg
- The written lane, Doha to Johannesburg
- The route calculator
More pairs through ACC and JNB: Accra to Beirut, Accra to Lagos, Accra to Addis Ababa, Accra to Casablanca, Accra to Nairobi, Accra to Cairo, Accra to Dar es Salaam, Zurich to Johannesburg.