The sector is held by Ethiopian Airlines.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
BAH Manama to ADD Addis Ababa
Bahrain International, Bahrain, to Bole International, Ethiopia. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 4 times a week
- Great circle
- 2,292 km
- Block, estimated
- 3h 26m
- Door to door
- 10h 11m
What BAH to ADD looks like
The BAH to ADD sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Manama BAH to Addis Ababa ADD is a medium haul sector of 2,292 km by great circle, flown nonstop 4 times a week.
At the cruise speed this site models for 2,292 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 3h 26m.
Manama BAH is a mid sized airport in the network held here, 52 scheduled destinations and 99.3 departures a day. Addis Ababa ADD has 114 destinations and 223.1 departures a day.
Manama and Addis Ababa keep the same clock all year, so the arrival time is the departure time plus the block and nothing else.
The pair sits between Africa and the Middle East, a corridor where the site already publishes 18 written lanes that go into customs and ground detail this page does not.
Who flies the sector, and how often
Average daily frequencies on BAH to ADD from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| BAH to ADD | 0.57 | 4 | Ethiopian Airlines |
| ADD to BAH | 0 | 0 | none held |
One carrier holds the sector, Ethiopian Airlines, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
The return leg ADD to BAH carries no scheduled nonstop at all, so a courier coming back does it with a connection.
Between them the two directions put about 4 departures a week on BAH 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 3h 26m block time on BAH 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 BAH | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At BAH before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| BAH to ADD in the air, estimated | 206 min | 7h 56m |
| Formalities at ADD | 90 min | 9h 26m |
| Delivery run in Addis Ababa | 45 min | 10h 11m |
| Door to door | 611 min | 10h 11m |
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 BAH to ADD is 10h 11m.
A courier who leaves Manama at 09:00 local is on the ground in Addis Ababa at about 12:26 local and at the door by 14:41 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Addis Ababa, the last useful departure from Manama is around 12:19 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. 32 of them join BAH to ADD.
| Connecting at | BAH to hub, flights a day | Hub to ADD, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dammam DMM | 4.57 | 1.14 | 2,350 | 5h 01m |
| Riyadh RUH | 6.71 | 2.43 | 2,385 | 5h 07m |
| Doha DOH | 6.57 | 0.86 | 2,411 | 5h 21m |
| Medina MED | 2.29 | 1.14 | 2,849 | 5h 38m |
| Jeddah JED | 4.71 | 4.43 | 2,685 | 5h 40m |
| Kuwait City KWI | 3.29 | 1 | 2,866 | 5h 44m |
32 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Dammam DMM, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about once a day.
Through DMM the routing covers 2,350 km against the 2,292 km nonstop track and takes about 5h 01m 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 35m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Riyadh RUH at 5h 07m and Doha DOH at 5h 21m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Manama, Dammam DMM is 86 km away by great circle and carries 43 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Plan Manama 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 BAH 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 BAH airport entry
- The ADD airport entry
- Hand carry into Bahrain
- Hand carry into Ethiopia
- The written lane, Dubai to Addis Ababa
- The route calculator
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