The sector is held by Ethiopian Airlines.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
ADD Addis Ababa to MAA Chennai
Bole International, Ethiopia, to Chennai International, India. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 4 times a week
- Great circle
- 4,533 km
- Block, estimated
- 5h 58m
- Door to door
- 12h 43m
What ADD to MAA looks like
The ADD to MAA sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Addis Ababa ADD to Chennai MAA is a long haul sector of 4,533 km by great circle, flown nonstop 4 times a week.
At the cruise speed this site models for 4,533 km, 880 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 5h 58m.
Addis Ababa ADD is a large airport in the network held here, 114 scheduled destinations and 223.1 departures a day. Chennai MAA has 58 destinations and 160.7 departures a day.
Chennai is 2.5 hours ahead of Addis Ababa all year.
The pair sits between Africa and Asia Pacific, a corridor where the site already publishes 1 written lanes that go into customs and ground detail this page does not.
Who flies the sector, and how often
Average daily frequencies on ADD to MAA from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| ADD to MAA | 0.57 | 4 | Ethiopian Airlines |
| MAA to ADD | 0.57 | 4 | 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 8 departures a week on ADD to MAA, 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 58m block time on ADD to MAA. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to ADD | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At ADD before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| ADD to MAA in the air, estimated | 358 min | 10h 28m |
| Formalities at MAA | 90 min | 11h 58m |
| Delivery run in Chennai | 45 min | 12h 43m |
| Door to door | 763 min | 12h 43m |
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 ADD to MAA is 12h 43m.
A courier who leaves Addis Ababa at 09:00 local is on the ground in Chennai at about 17:28 local and at the door by 19:43 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Chennai, the last useful departure from Addis Ababa is around 07:17 local.
At 12h 43m 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. 15 of them join ADD to MAA.
| Connecting at | ADD to hub, flights a day | Hub to MAA, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bangalore BLR | 0.57 | 15.14 | 4,535 | 7h 32m |
| Muscat MCT | 1 | 1.57 | 5,222 | 8h 40m |
| Sharjah SHJ | 2.14 | 1.14 | 5,458 | 8h 58m |
| Doha DOH | 1.14 | 2.29 | 5,549 | 9h 05m |
| Abu Dhabi AUH | 2.29 | 7.43 | 5,370 | 9h 06m |
| Dubai DXB | 7.86 | 4.57 | 5,452 | 9h 28m |
15 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Bangalore BLR, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 4 times a week.
Through BLR the routing covers 4,535 km against the 4,533 km nonstop track and takes about 7h 32m 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 34m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Muscat MCT at 8h 40m and Sharjah SHJ at 8h 58m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
Plan Addis Ababa to Chennai 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 ADD to MAA 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 ADD airport entry
- The MAA airport entry
- Hand carry into Ethiopia
- Hand carry into India
- The written lane, Dubai to Addis Ababa
- The written lane, Chennai to Stuttgart
- The written lane, Dubai to Chennai
- The route calculator
More pairs through ADD and MAA: Addis Ababa to Abu Dhabi, Addis Ababa to Jeddah, Addis Ababa to Milan, Addis Ababa to Sharjah, Addis Ababa to Tel Aviv, Addis Ababa to Riyadh, Beirut to Addis Ababa, Sao Paulo to Addis Ababa.