Flights from Accra to Abidjan (ACC-ABJ): Airlines, USD Fares

Flights Accra -> Abidjan (ACC-ABJ) — USD Fares, Airlines, Frequency

7 scheduled departures a week link Accra (ACC) in Ghana with Abidjan (ABJ) — roughly one a day — flown by 2 catalogued carriers at a scheduled block time near 1.0 hours. Our catalogue scores corridor demand 7/10 and files it as an intra-Africa + Gulf hub transit corridor.

Flight ACC -> ABJ is operated by Ethiopian Airlines, Royal Air Maroc (~7 flights per week, ~1.0h block time). This is an intra-Africa + Gulf hub transit corridor, with typical economy USD fares in the $500-1,500 band. Intra-Africa and Gulf-hub transit fares move week-to-week; 4-8 weeks is the typical sweet spot.

Great-circle distance Accra–Abidjan is about 418 km, computed from the stored coordinates of ACC (5.61, -0.17) and ABJ (5.26, -3.93). What the figure fixes is the sector profile — 418 km against a scheduled 1.0-hour block time — and the fuel-and-crew economics behind the fare floor. It does not fix a compensation amount. No fixed-tariff compensation scheme reaches ACC–ABJ. EU261 and UK261 do band by distance, but they only cover flights departing an EU/EEA or UK airport — plus arrivals there on a bloc-licensed carrier — and neither endpoint here is one, whoever operates the flight. The Montreal Convention 1999 is what applies, and it pays provable loss, not a tariff.

Airlines on this route

2 carriers operate ACC–ABJ: Ethiopian Airlines (ET) and Royal Air Maroc (AT). Our carrier table records checked-baggage baselines of 23 kg; the group spans Oneworld and Star Alliance. That mix decides three things — the fare floor, whether your bag is through-checked on a connection, and which delay regulation covers you.

The ACC–ABJ carriers do not share one alliance — Oneworld and Star Alliance are represented — and that has a concrete consequence. Mileage earning and lounge access do not carry across the split, and more importantly a connection built across two of these airlines is only through-checked when the two tickets are issued as one. Two separate confirmations mean you collect the bag, clear immigration where required, and check in again — and a missed second flight is your cost, not the airline’s.

Our carrier table records a diaspora / migrant-worker baggage uplift of +5 kg on Ethiopian Airlines and +23 kg on Royal Air Maroc. Read that as a carrier promotion, not a universal entitlement: uplifts of this kind are normally tied to specific fare families and specific corridors, they are rarely honoured on a codeshare or interline segment issued by another airline, and the cheapest promotional fare buckets are the ones most often excluded. Confirm the allowance against your own booking class before you pack to it.

USD fares — ACC-ABJ

$498 is the most recent weekly reading in our fare log for ACC–ABJ, taken in 2026-W25, across 1 reading that range $498 to $498. The point-in-time fare cache holds no entry for this corridor, so the weekly log is the observed evidence here.

Typical economy fares on ACC-ABJ sit in the $500-1,500 range. Live cached fares from Travelpayouts appear in the panel below; fare-month seasonality follows.

Book 4-8 weeks ahead. Fares rise around the December holidays; mid-week departures are usually the cheapest. That window is cluster guidance for an intra-Africa + Gulf hub transit corridor rather than a rule for this single pairing; on a corridor with 7 weekly departures, the practical constraint is often seat availability on the days you can actually travel, not the headline fare.

Treat every cached figure on ACC–ABJ as a fare, not as a trip cost. What the cache cannot see is the booking class behind the number: checked baggage, seat selection and change rights are all fare-family attributes, and the buckets that produce record-low quotes are the ones that include least. Price the trip you are actually taking.

How much baggage can you take on ACC–ABJ?

23 kg is the checked-baggage baseline our carrier table records for the 2 airlines on ACC–ABJ, with a recorded diaspora uplift of up to +23 kg on Royal Air Maroc. Baselines are economy figures and fare-family dependent. The allowance printed on your issued ticket overrides any table, this one included.

The baseline is the headline, the fare family is the contract. On ACC–ABJ the same carrier will sell you a fare beneath its own advertised allowance, and those stripped buckets are exactly the ones that set record-low cached prices. Whatever a table says — this one included — the allowance on your issued itinerary is the number that will be enforced at the counter.

Where our table records a migrant or diaspora uplift — +5 kg on Ethiopian Airlines and +23 kg on Royal Air Maroc — three exclusions usually bite. The uplift attaches to nominated corridors rather than the whole network; it rarely survives onto a codeshare or interline segment operated and ticketed by a different airline; and the deepest-discount fare buckets are commonly carved out. None of that makes the uplift fictional, but it does mean it has to be confirmed against your booking class, in writing, before you pack to it.

Connections on ACC–ABJ: what “direct” actually buys you

1.0 hours is the scheduled nonstop block time on ACC–ABJ; any itinerary a search returns well above that is connecting, whatever the screen calls it. “Direct” is a flight-number description, not a promise of a single takeoff and landing. Two separately issued sectors are not one contract.

The distinction is not pedantry. A direct flight keeps one flight number through an intermediate stop, so it can sit in the nonstop filter of a search engine while adding an hour on the ground and a second departure to miss. A connecting itinerary changes flight number and usually aircraft. On ACC–ABJ the practical test is the elapsed-time figure: compare it against the 1.0-hour block time before you compare prices.

The second trap is the ticket, not the routing. Two cheap sectors bought separately to reach Abidjan are not one contract: your bag is not through-checked, you re-clear security and often immigration at the transfer point, and if the first leg lands late the second airline owes you nothing — no rebooking, no refund, no duty of care. A single ticket that costs more can be the cheaper outcome the first time anything slips.

Search live fares

7 weekly departures across 2 carriers mean a live ACC–ABJ search returns several price points for the same day; the most recent weekly reading in our fare log was $498. Scheduled nonstop block time is 1.0 hours, so any result far above that is connecting whatever the screen says.

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Three checks make a live ACC–ABJ result comparable. Fix the passenger count and cabin first, because a per-passenger fare and a party total look identical on a results page. Then read the elapsed time next to the price — a one-stop itinerary and the 1.0-hour nonstop are different products at the same number. Then check whether the fare carries the bag you are actually taking.

If anything about your ACC–ABJ trip can move, make it the dates. The gap between the cheapest and dearest departure month in our own fare log is routinely larger than any difference between one booking site and another. Fixed dates put you in competition with everyone else holding the same date, and the answer there is to book early rather than to keep looking.

About Abidjan

4 catalogued corridors in this site’s data reach Abidjan (ABJ), Félix-Houphouët-Boigny International, ICAO DIAP, from 4 catalogued origins and 3 carriers in total. That count is this site’s coverage of Abidjan, not the airport’s published schedule. Each of those corridors has its own guide with carriers, weekly frequency, scheduled block time and whatever the fare cache holds.

Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire — destination on the intra-Africa + Gulf hub transit corridor. Destination currency: USD (we quote in USD throughout this guide).

Beyond ACC, our catalogue reaches Abidjan from 3 other origins: Addis Ababa (ADD), Casablanca (CMN) and Lagos (LOS). That matters when the ACC–ABJ fare is unattractive: on a continent where positioning flights are cheap, flying out of a different gateway is a real option, and each of those corridors has its own guide, carriers and cached fare floor on this site.

Where our airport file holds no coordinates, hub carriers or country row for a destination, this page says less rather than guessing — no distance band, no hub analysis, no currency note. Abidjan is catalogued here on the strength of the ACC–ABJ corridor itself: the carriers our route file records, the estimated weekly frequency, the scheduled block time and whatever the fare cache has seen. That is a narrower page, and an honest one.

FAQ

Which airlines fly Accra to Abidjan? Direct ACC-ABJ flights are operated by Ethiopian Airlines, Royal Air Maroc. Compare baggage baseline and alliance in the carrier table above.

How long is the ACC-ABJ flight and how often does it run? Block time is about 1.0 hours. The ACC-ABJ route runs roughly 7 flights per week across all carriers.

How much does a ACC-ABJ flight cost and when is it cheapest? Typical economy fares sit in the $500-1,500 USD band. Intra-Africa and Gulf-hub transit fares move week-to-week; 4-8 weeks is the typical sweet spot.

What is the checked baggage allowance on ACC-ABJ? It varies by carrier and fare class — see the baggage-baseline column in the carrier table above. Full-service carriers usually include 23-30 kg, while low-cost carriers sell it as an add-on. Confirm on the airline’s site before booking.

What currency is used in Abidjan? Abidjan uses USD. Fares in this guide are quoted in USD; budget on-the-ground spending in USD.

Related routes and reading

2 related pages follow, each chosen because it shares an endpoint, a carrier or an audience cluster with ACC–ABJ — not because of a keyword match. The annotations say what each one adds, so the ones that do not apply to your trip can be skipped.

• Accra airport (ACC) — Kotoka International, Ghana: 11 catalogued departure corridors and 3 arrival corridors.
• Abidjan airport (ABJ) — Félix-Houphouët-Boigny International, Côte d’Ivoire: 0 catalogued departure corridors and 4 arrival corridors.

These links come out of the data rather than an editorial wish-list. Two pages are connected when they share an airport, a carrier, a destination country or an audience cluster, which means the list is stable as the catalogue grows and does not drift toward whatever term happens to rank. Skip what does not match your trip.

The airport guides carry what a corridor page cannot: the full catalogued route list at each end, the based hub carriers, the alliance mix and the compensation regime of the country that airport sits in. On a connecting itinerary the transfer airport’s rules matter as much as the destination’s, which is why ACC–ABJ links both ends rather than only the arrival.