Flights from Dar es Salaam to Addis Ababa (DAR-ADD): Airlines

Flights Dar es Salaam -> Addis Ababa (DAR-ADD) — USD Fares, Airlines, Frequency

14 scheduled departures a week link Dar es Salaam (DAR) in Tanzania with Addis Ababa (ADD) — about 2 a day — flown by 1 catalogued carrier at a scheduled block time near 2.5 hours. Our catalogue scores corridor demand 7/10 and files it as an intra-Africa + Gulf hub transit corridor.

Dar es Salaam to Addis Ababa connects Tanzania with Ethiopia, with around 14 flights a week, two a day. The route carries business travellers, traders and passengers connecting through Addis Ababa to destinations across Africa and beyond. Block time is about two and a half hours.

Great-circle distance Dar es Salaam–Addis Ababa is about 1,764 km, computed from the stored coordinates of DAR (-6.88, 39.20) and ADD (8.98, 38.80). What the figure fixes is the sector profile — 1,764 km against a scheduled 2.5-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 DAR–ADD. 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

1 carrier operates DAR–ADD: Ethiopian Airlines (ET), a full-service airline based in Ethiopia, a member of Star Alliance, with a 23 kg checked-baggage baseline in our table. Our route file puts the corridor at about 14 weekly departures with a scheduled block time near 2.5 hours.

Ethiopian Airlines operates DAR-ADD, flying a full-service aircraft direct to Addis Ababa with a checked baggage allowance and meals included. Addis Ababa is the carrier’s main hub, so the route is also a feeder into a wide network of intercontinental connections.

Our carrier table records a diaspora / migrant-worker baggage uplift of +5 kg on Ethiopian Airlines. 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 — DAR-ADD

$402 is the most recent weekly reading in our fare log for DAR–ADD, taken in 2026-W29, across 4 readings that range $402 to $799. The point-in-time fare cache holds no entry for this corridor, so the weekly log is the observed evidence here.

DAR-ADD fares stay moderate for most of the year, helped by the short distance and twice-daily frequency, and rise around the December holidays. Three to six weeks of lead time usually secures a reasonable economy fare in USD.

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 14 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 DAR–ADD 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.

Has the DAR–ADD fare moved? 4 weekly readings

4 weekly readings between 2026-W24 and 2026-W29 put the cached DAR–ADD low between $402 and $799 — a $397 spread, 99% of the cheapest reading. The cheapest reading is also the most recent, 2026-W29. Each row is one weekly snapshot of the cheapest published quote, not an average of everything sold that week.

The cached low fell 8% between the first and last reading, from $436 to $402. 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 $402 was achievable on DAR–ADD inside the window, so a quote well above $799 is worth a second search.

Carriers behind the readings: ET. 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.

Baggage on DAR–ADD: baselines, uplift and the exclusions

23 kg is the checked-baggage baseline our carrier table records for the 1 airline on DAR–ADD, with a recorded diaspora uplift of up to +5 kg on Ethiopian Airlines. Baselines are economy figures and fare-family dependent. The allowance printed on your issued ticket overrides any table, this one included.

Read the baseline as an advertised standard rather than a guarantee. Airlines on DAR–ADD sell below it through hand-baggage and basic-economy fare families, and those are disproportionately the fares that appear as the corridor’s cheapest quote. The only allowance that binds anyone is the one printed on the ticket you hold.

Where our table records a migrant or diaspora uplift — +5 kg on Ethiopian Airlines — 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.

Search live fares

14 weekly departures across 1 carrier mean a live DAR–ADD search returns several price points for the same day; the most recent weekly reading in our fare log was $402. Scheduled nonstop block time is 2.5 hours, so any result far above that is connecting whatever the screen says.

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Comparing DAR–ADD quotes fairly takes three corrections. Passenger count and cabin have to match across the tabs you are comparing. Elapsed time has to be read beside the price, since a connection can add most of a day to the 2.5-hour nonstop. And the baggage line has to be checked, because the cheapest fare family is usually the one carrying the least.

Date flexibility beats every other lever on DAR–ADD. Month-scanning surfaces the seasonal shape our fare log records; repeated searching on one fixed date mostly surfaces the same fare bucket. When the calendar is not negotiable — pilgrimage, school holidays, a job start — the useful move is to buy sooner, because scarcity, not timing, is what sets the price then.

About Addis Ababa

6 catalogued corridors in this site’s data reach Addis Ababa (ADD), Bole International, ICAO HAAB, from 6 catalogued origins and 3 carriers in total. That count is this site’s coverage of Addis Ababa, 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.

Addis Ababa is the capital of Ethiopia, a high-altitude city that is the political centre of the country and the seat of the African Union. For travellers from Dar es Salaam it is a business destination and, above all, a major hub for onward connections across Africa, Europe, the Gulf and Asia.

Beyond DAR, our catalogue reaches Addis Ababa from 5 other origins: Entebbe (EBB), Harare (HRE), Johannesburg (JNB), Kigali (KGL) and Nairobi (NBO). That matters when the DAR–ADD 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 Dar es Salaam to Addis Ababa? Direct DAR-ADD flights are operated by Ethiopian Airlines. Compare baggage baseline and alliance in the carrier table above.

How long is the DAR-ADD flight and how often does it run? Block time is about 2.5 hours. The DAR-ADD route runs roughly 14 flights per week across all carriers.

How much does a DAR-ADD flight cost and when is it cheapest? Typical economy fares sit in the $400-900 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 DAR-ADD? 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 Addis Ababa? Addis Ababa uses USD. Fares in this guide are quoted in USD; budget on-the-ground spending in USD.

Related routes and reading

2 pages below connect to DAR–ADD through the data: a shared airport, a shared operating carrier, or the same audience cluster in our segmentation. Each is annotated with what it actually contains, so you can decide before clicking. Each corridor entry carries that route’s carriers, estimated weekly frequency, scheduled block time and demand score straight from our route file.

• Dar es Salaam airport (DAR) — Julius Nyerere International, Tanzania: 11 catalogued departure corridors and 2 arrival corridors.
• Addis Ababa airport (ADD) — Bole International, Ethiopia: 13 catalogued departure corridors and 6 arrival corridors.

Nothing above was chosen by keyword. The link set is derived from the route, carrier and airport files — a shared endpoint, a shared operator, a shared country or the same audience cluster is what puts a page on this list. That is why a link can point at a city you have no interest in and still be the useful one: it shares the airline.

The corridor links are there to be used as alternatives, not as further reading. If the DAR–ADD fare or schedule does not work, a different African gateway to Addis Ababa is often the better fix — positioning within the continent is cheap relative to the long-haul sector, and the fare gap between two origins to the same destination is regularly wider than the positioning ticket. The catch is that separately issued sectors carry no protection if the first one runs late.