Addis Ababa Airport (ADD) — Direct Flights, USD Fares | Ethiopia

Bole International (ADD, ICAO HAAB) serves Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and is both a departure point and a destination in the corridors catalogued here. It is the based hub of Ethiopian Airlines. Our catalogue links 13 direct destinations out of ADD and 6 African origins into it, served by 8 carriers.

At a glance

19 catalogued corridors touch Addis Ababa (ADD / HAAB) in Ethiopia: 13 outbound and 6 inbound, flown by 8 carriers, with Ethiopian Airlines based here. 9 of those corridors carry a cached USD quote in our fare file; the rest are catalogued on schedule evidence alone.

The route mix at ADD splits into 9 short sectors under four hours, 5 medium sectors of four to seven hours and 5 long-haul sectors beyond seven — a profile that tells you what the terminal is actually built around. 3 of the corridors here are flagged in our data as labour-migration or diaspora routes, where checked-baggage terms drive booking decisions more than schedule does.

Two codes, two uses. ADD is the IATA code you will see on a ticket, a baggage tag and a departure board, while HAAB is the ICAO code used in flight plans, NOTAMs and air-traffic filing. They are not interchangeable: IATA codes are reused across the world’s smaller fields and are the ones that cause mis-booking, which is why every corridor on this site is keyed on the pair of codes rather than a city name.

Airlines serving ADD

8 carriers appear on the ADD corridors catalogued here, 8 of them with a row in our carrier file, recording checked-baggage baselines from 23 kg to 46 kg, and 7 of those rows sit inside a global alliance (SkyTeam 3, Star Alliance 3, Oneworld 1). A blank cell means no recorded value, not a zero.

These carriers operate the ADD corridors catalogued on this site. Bole International is the based hub of Ethiopian Airlines, which anchors most of its schedule and connecting bank.

Alliance spread decides how easily a disruption at ADD gets fixed. With 3 SkyTeam carriers, 3 Star Alliance carriers, 1 Oneworld carrier on these corridors, a passenger stuck here can sometimes be reflowed onto a partner without a new ticket — but only within the same alliance, and only when the original ticket permits it. Between alliances, re-accommodation is a commercial favour rather than an entitlement.

Top routes from ADD

9/10 is the highest demand score on any ADD corridor in our catalogue — Addis Ababa to Dubai (ADD–DXB), about 14 flights a week on ET and EK. Demand score is this catalogue’s own 1-10 editorial rating across 19 corridors at ADD, not a passenger count from a civil-aviation authority.

Sorted by demand; the USD market-low column is the cheapest fare our cache has seen on the corridor across all carriers.

Schedule concentration is the number worth noticing: the three busiest corridors account for about 36% of the roughly 196 weekly departures our catalogue records at ADD. A concentrated airport recovers well on its trunk routes — several rotations a day means a cancellation is a wait, not a lost day — and badly on its thin ones, where the next flight can be days away.

Corridors and typical fares from ADD

9 of the 19 ADD corridors carry a cached USD quote, the lowest at $136. Fares are quoted in USD across the whole site so corridors from different African markets stay comparable. Sector length drives the shape: 9 run under four hours, 5 four to seven and 5 beyond seven.

Most ADD corridors here serve intra-Africa and Gulf-hub business travellers. The mix is 9 short intra-Africa hops (under 4 h), 5 medium Gulf-range sectors (4–7 h), 5 long-haul routes (over 7 h). 3 are labour-migration or diaspora corridors where extra-baggage allowances matter. USD fares vary by corridor — intra-Africa typically $400–900, Gulf hubs $500–1,200, long-haul $800–2,200; each per-route guide below carries live cached fares.

The shape of the fare curve follows the sector length. The 9 short corridors under four hours from ADD price like regional traffic and move mostly with the day of the week; the 5 long-haul corridors beyond seven hours move with season and school holidays, and can double between the cheapest and dearest month in our own cache. Mixing the two on one average would be meaningless, which is why every corridor page carries its own floor.

Direct flights from ADD — 13 destinations

13 catalogued routes are listed below for ADD, reaching 13 countries, led by India, Belgium and France. Our catalogue records 13 departure and 6 arrival corridors at ADD, each linking to a corridor guide with carriers, frequency, block time and any cached fare. The list is this site’s catalogue, not the airport’s timetable.

• ADD -> ABJ
• ADD -> BOM
• ADD -> BRU
• ADD -> CDG
• ADD -> DLA
• ADD -> DXB
• ADD -> FIH
• ADD -> IAD
• ADD -> JED
• ADD -> JUB
• ADD -> KRT
• ADD -> LHR
• ADD -> MGQ

Each link opens a corridor guide rather than a booking form: carriers, an estimated weekly frequency, scheduled block time, the great-circle distance used that sets an EU261 or UK261 band where either applies, and whatever the fare cache holds. That is deliberate — the useful decision on a corridor is usually which routing and which carrier, and only then which price.

Treat the list as a catalogue rather than a timetable. Routes are included where African outbound demand justifies a guide, so charter and marginal regional services at Addis Ababa may be flying without being listed. Where a corridor is here, the carriers shown are the ones our route file records and a dash in the fare column means unqueried, not unavailable.

Direct flights to ADD — 6 routes

6 catalogued routes are listed below for ADD, reaching 13 countries, led by India, Belgium and France. Our catalogue records 13 departure and 6 arrival corridors at ADD, each linking to a corridor guide with carriers, frequency, block time and any cached fare. The list is this site’s catalogue, not the airport’s timetable.

• DAR -> ADD
• EBB -> ADD
• HRE -> ADD
• JNB -> ADD
• KGL -> ADD
• NBO -> ADD

Each link opens a corridor guide rather than a booking form: carriers, an estimated weekly frequency, scheduled block time, the great-circle distance used that sets an EU261 or UK261 band where either applies, and whatever the fare cache holds. That is deliberate — the useful decision on a corridor is usually which routing and which carrier, and only then which price.

Treat the list as a catalogue rather than a timetable. Routes are included where African outbound demand justifies a guide, so charter and marginal regional services at Addis Ababa may be flying without being listed. Where a corridor is here, the carriers shown are the ones our route file records and a dash in the fare column means unqueried, not unavailable.

Hub airlines based at ADD

1 carrier bases an operation at Addis Ababa (ADD): Ethiopian Airlines (ET), on 19 catalogued corridors. A based carrier is where the airport’s recovery capacity lives. Across the 19 corridors catalogued at ADD, a based operation is what makes a same-day recovery realistic; an outstation carrier usually has one rotation and no local engineering.

Ethiopian Airlines

Hub status is operational, not marketing. A carrier that bases aircraft and crew at ADD builds connecting banks around it, holds spare capacity there, and can usually re-crew or swap metal the same day. The same airline at an outstation typically has one rotation and no local engineering, so an identical technical fault produces a two-hour delay at the hub and an overnight at the outstation.

It also shapes price. The based carrier usually sets the fare level on corridors out of Addis Ababa and competitors price against it, which is why a hub airport is rarely the cheapest place to originate on its own home routes. Where our cache shows an unusually low floor at ADD, it is normally a competing carrier buying share rather than the hub carrier discounting.

FAQ

How is ADD airport connected? ADD (Addis Ababa) connects to 13 destinations and is served by direct flights from 6 origins in our catalogue — see the full route list above.

What are the IATA and ICAO codes for ADD airport? The IATA code is ADD and the ICAO code is HAAB. The airport serves Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Which airlines are based at ADD? Hub carriers at ADD: ET.

How can I check fares and schedules for routes through ADD? Each route in the list above links to a guide with live USD fares, weekly frequency and the airlines that operate it.

Which airlines fly from ADD? Carriers on ADD corridors catalogued here: Ethiopian Airlines, Air France, Emirates, Saudia, British Airways, EgyptAir, South African Airways, Kenya Airways. See the airlines table above for alliance and baggage.

What is the cheapest flight from ADD? In our fare cache the lowest market fare out of ADD is about $136 on Addis Ababa–Jeddah (ADD-JED). Fares move with season — check live prices on the route guide.

Related

3 related pages follow. Each is linked because it shares an endpoint, a carrier, a country or an audience cluster with this one — the annotations say what each adds, so the ones that do not apply to your trip can be skipped.

• Flights to Ethiopia — country landing page: 6 catalogued corridors from African airports, carriers, visa row and the USD fare floor we have on file.
• Abidjan airport (ABJ) — Félix-Houphouët-Boigny International, Côte d’Ivoire: 0 catalogued departure corridors and 4 arrival corridors.
• Mumbai airport (BOM) — Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International, India: 0 catalogued departure corridors and 3 arrival corridors.

The relationship behind each link is structural: a common origin or destination airport, a common operating carrier, a common country, or the same audience cluster in our segmentation. No keyword matching is involved, so an unexpected entry here usually means a shared hub or a shared airline rather than a shared destination.

Corridor pages carry the per-route detail — carriers, weekly frequency, scheduled block time, great-circle distance and whatever the fare cache holds. Airport pages carry the full catalogued route list at that field, the based hub carriers and the compensation regime of the country it sits in. Carrier pages carry the baggage baseline, alliance and the network as this catalogue records it.