Flights from Accra to Medina (ACC-MED): Airlines, USD Fares

Flights Accra -> Medina (ACC-MED) — USD Fares, Airlines, Frequency

2 scheduled departures a week link Accra (ACC) in Ghana with Medina (MED) — one every 3.5 days on average — flown by 1 catalogued carrier at a scheduled block time near 8.5 hours. Our catalogue scores corridor demand 6/10 and files it as a Hajj/Umrah pilgrim corridor.

Accra to Medina is a pilgrimage route serving Muslim travellers from Ghana and the wider West African region, with around 2 flights a week. It carries pilgrims heading to Medina for Umrah and, in season, for Hajj — Medina being one of the two holy cities of Islam. Block time is around eight and a half hours.

Great-circle distance Accra–Medina is about 4,744 km, computed from the stored coordinates of ACC (5.61, -0.17) and MED (24.55, 39.71). What the figure fixes is the sector profile — 4,744 km against a scheduled 8.5-hour block time — and the fuel-and-crew economics behind the fare floor. It does not fix a compensation amount. Saudi GACA reaches any flight to or from Saudi Arabia and obliges care, rebooking or a full refund and compensation where the cause sits inside the airline’s control — but it sets no distance tariff, so the kilometre figure buys you nothing on a claim here.

Airlines on this route

1 carrier operates ACC–MED: Saudia (SV), a full-service airline based in Saudi Arabia, a member of SkyTeam, with a 46 kg checked-baggage baseline in our table. Our route file puts the corridor at about 2 weekly departures with a scheduled block time near 8.5 hours.

Saudia operates ACC-MED, flying a full-service widebody direct to Medina. The fare includes a generous checked baggage allowance and meals, practical for pilgrims who often travel with substantial luggage. The direct service spares travellers a connection on a long sector flown by family groups and older passengers.

Our carrier table records a diaspora / migrant-worker baggage uplift of +15 kg on Saudia. 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-MED

$1,035 is the lowest one-way economy price the Travelpayouts feed returned for ACC–MED on MS, for a 2026-08-01T13:30:00Z departure. That is a single cached observation on this one corridor — not a low across the site’s fare cache, and not a live price — so read it as an observed floor for ACC–MED on that date.

ACC-MED fares move almost entirely with the pilgrimage calendar. The weeks around Hajj and the popular Umrah periods are the most expensive and sell out far in advance — booking three to five months ahead is sensible, and many pilgrims travel as part of an organised package. Outside the peaks, six to ten weeks usually secures a workable economy fare in USD.

The $1,035 quote in our cache is a nonstop itinerary of 22 h 10 m, which is the cleanest case: one flight number, one bag tag, one carrier responsible end to end. It also means the price floor on ACC–MED does not depend on a connection holding together, so a delay costs you time rather than a missed onward sector.

Delay and cancellation rights on ACC–MED

1 regulator governs ACC–MED: Saudi GACA, which applies to any flight to or from Saudi Arabia. It obliges care, rebooking or a full refund and compensation for cancellations and long delays inside the airline’s control. There is no EU-style fixed distance tariff, so the corridor’s kilometre figure decides nothing about the amount you can claim.

What does not apply matters as much as what does, because claim-management services will happily open a file either way. On ACC–MED: EU261 does not reach this corridor at all — neither endpoint is an EU/EEA airport, and carrier nationality alone never triggers it, US DOT rules are irrelevant here, and would only ever cover refunds rather than compensation even if they applied and UK261 does not apply, since no leg touches a UK airport. Filing under a scheme that does not cover your itinerary costs weeks and gets a rejection, so match the regulation to the departure airport and the operating carrier before you start.

What 4 weeks of cached fares show on ACC–MED

4 weekly readings between 2026-W20 and 2026-W29 put the cached ACC–MED low between $956 and $1,035 — a $79 spread, 8% of the cheapest reading. The low landed in 2026-W27; the most recent reading, 2026-W29, was $1,035. Each row is one weekly snapshot of the cheapest published quote, not an average of everything sold that week.

The cached low rose 5% between the first and last reading, from $983 to $1,035. Read it with the sample size in front of you: 4 observations over a ten-week window is a signal about this corridor’s volatility, not a forecast. What it does establish is a defensible floor — you now know $956 was achievable on ACC–MED inside the window, so a quote well above $1,035 is worth a second search.

Carriers behind the readings: ET and MS, with the $956 low attributed to MS. Where a row shows a dash the gate returned no carrier code with the quote, which usually means a multi-carrier or agency-issued itinerary. Do not read a carrier name here as that airline’s own published fare — it is the marketing carrier on the cheapest itinerary a gate had loaded that week.

Search live fares

2 weekly departures across 1 carrier mean a live ACC–MED search returns several price points for the same day; our cached floor for the corridor is $1,035. Scheduled nonstop block time is 8.5 hours, so any result far above that is connecting whatever the screen says.

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A live ACC–MED search is only comparable once three things are pinned: the cabin and passenger count, so totals are like for like; the elapsed time, which separates a genuine nonstop from a routing that merely costs the same; and the baggage the fare includes. Skip any of the three and you are comparing two different products.

If anything about your ACC–MED 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 Medina

4 catalogued corridors in this site’s data reach Medina (MED), Prince Mohammad bin Abdulaziz, ICAO OEMA, from 4 catalogued origins and 1 carrier in total. That count is this site’s coverage of Medina, 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.

Medina is one of the two holy cities of Islam, home to the Prophet’s Mosque, and a central destination for pilgrims performing Umrah and Hajj. It is a calm, low-rise city organised around the mosque and the rhythm of prayer. For travellers from Ghana it is most often a stop within a wider pilgrimage that also takes in Mecca.

Beyond ACC, our catalogue reaches Medina from 3 other origins: Johannesburg (JNB), Lagos (LOS) and Nairobi (NBO). That matters when the ACC–MED 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.

FAQ

Which airlines fly Accra to Medina? Direct ACC-MED flights are operated by Saudia. Compare baggage baseline and alliance in the carrier table above.

How long is the ACC-MED flight and how often does it run? Block time is about 8.5 hours. The ACC-MED route runs roughly 2 flights per week across all carriers.

How much does a ACC-MED flight cost and when is it cheapest? Typical economy fares sit in the $550-1,200 USD band. Book 12-20 weeks ahead for Hajj season (Dhul-Hijjah); Umrah off-peak (Muharram, Safar) is 25-40% cheaper.

What is the checked baggage allowance on ACC-MED? 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. Diaspora travellers should check each carrier’s extra-baggage uplift.

What currency is used in Medina? Medina 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–MED — 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.
• Medina airport (MED) — Prince Mohammad bin Abdulaziz, Saudi Arabia: 0 catalogued departure corridors and 4 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.

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–MED links both ends rather than only the arrival.