The sector is held by Ethiopian Airlines.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
ADD Addis Ababa to DAR Dar es Salaam
Bole International, Ethiopia, to Julius Nyerere International, Tanzania. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 3.4 times a day
- Great circle
- 1,764 km
- Block, estimated
- 2h 45m
- Door to door
- 9h 30m
What ADD to DAR looks like
The ADD to DAR sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Addis Ababa ADD to Dar es Salaam DAR is a medium haul sector of 1,764 km by great circle, flown nonstop 3.4 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 1,764 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 2h 45m.
Addis Ababa ADD is a large airport in the network held here, 114 scheduled destinations and 223.1 departures a day. Dar es Salaam DAR has 37 destinations and 80 departures a day.
Addis Ababa carries about 2.8 times the departures of Dar es Salaam, 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 and Dar es Salaam keep the same clock all year, so the arrival time is the departure time plus the block and nothing else.
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 ADD to DAR from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| ADD to DAR | 3.43 | 24 | Ethiopian Airlines |
| DAR to ADD | 3.43 | 24 | 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.
At 3.4 times a day there is usually another departure within a few hours, which is what makes a same day booking on this pair realistic.
Between them the two directions put about 48 departures a week on ADD to DAR, 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 2h 45m block time on ADD to DAR. 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 DAR in the air, estimated | 165 min | 7h 15m |
| Formalities at DAR | 90 min | 8h 45m |
| Delivery run in Dar es Salaam | 45 min | 9h 30m |
| Door to door | 570 min | 9h 30m |
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 DAR is 9h 30m.
A courier who leaves Addis Ababa at 09:00 local is on the ground in Dar es Salaam at about 11:45 local and at the door by 14:00 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Dar es Salaam, the last useful departure from Addis Ababa is around 13:00 local.
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. 22 of them join ADD to DAR.
| Connecting at | ADD to hub, flights a day | Hub to DAR, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zanzibar ZNZ | 2.29 | 34.57 | 1,764 | 4h 16m |
| Kilimanjaro JRO | 2.71 | 4.29 | 1,843 | 4h 27m |
| Nairobi NBO | 2.86 | 7.14 | 1,832 | 4h 28m |
| Entebbe EBB | 4.43 | 1.29 | 2,292 | 4h 55m |
| Blantyre BLZ | 1.14 | 0.86 | 3,856 | 6h 56m |
| Lubumbashi FBM | 1.14 | 0.57 | 3,988 | 7h 06m |
With 3.4 times a day on the nonstop, a connection here is a disruption plan rather than a routing, and it is listed because a closed runway or a cancellation wave is exactly when nobody has time to work it out.
22 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Zanzibar ZNZ, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about twice a day.
Through ZNZ the routing covers 1,764 km against the 1,764 km nonstop track and takes about 4h 16m 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 31m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Kilimanjaro JRO at 4h 27m and Nairobi NBO at 4h 28m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Dar es Salaam, Zanzibar ZNZ is 73 km away by great circle and carries 27 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Plan Addis Ababa to Dar es Salaam 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 DAR 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 DAR airport entry
- Hand carry into Ethiopia
- Hand carry into Tanzania
- The written lane, Dubai to Addis Ababa
- The written lane, Doha to Dar es Salaam
- The route calculator
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