Ethiopian Airlines is primarily a network airline offering connecting flights via Ethiopia at its main airport Addis Ababa ADD.

When to buy tickets

The best way to buy tickets is directly from the carrier's website , ethiopian.com.

It is generally worth buying tickets about 3-5 months before departure. Last minute tickets tend to be the most expensive with Ethiopian.

Promotions appear about 1-2 times a year. You always have the best chance of getting a cheap fare on newly introduced destinations or off-season flights.

Because Ethiopian is the only or one of the few airlines flying to many destinations (especially in Africa), prices are often high and completely free of promotions.

5th freedom tickets

Ethiopian Airlines has a higher than average number of stopover flights in their network compared to other airlines, where you don't leave the plane during the stopover. Some passengers get off and some get on.

On most of these routes, Ethiopian takes advantage of the so-called 5th freedom right, which allows airlines to sell tickets on routes outside their home country.

You can therefore fly with Ethiopian on routes outside Ethiopia, for example:

• Vienna - Copenhagen
• Kuala Lumpur - Singapore
• Bangkok - Jakarta
• Bangkok - Hong Kong
• Oslo - Stockholm
• Sao Paulo - Buenos Aires
• Tokyo - Seoul
• and more

Fares on these routes are around 150 usd and are popular with, among others, aviation enthusiasts, giving them a chance to fly a large long-haul aircraft at a low price.

Check flight prices at ethiopian.com

Fare classes

Ethiopian Airlines has economy and business class, called. Cloud 9.

These classes are subdivided into several other different fares that include different benefits when you buy tickets.

Carry-on and checked baggage are included in all fares, see details.

You can also choose a specific seat on the plane for free on all fares, see details.

Economy Class fares

• Economy Promo
  • Change of date fee - 100 usd (+ fare difference)
  • Cancellation fee - non-refundable ticket, cannot be cancelled
• Economy Semi Flex
  • Rescheduling Fee - 50 usd (+ fare difference)
  • Flight Cancellation Fee - 100 usd
• Economy Flex
  • Rescheduling Fee - 50 usd (+ fare difference)
  • Flight Cancellation Fee - 50 usd

Business class fares

• Cloud 9 Restricted
  • Rescheduling Fee - 100 usd (+ fare difference)
  • Flight cancellation fee - 150 usd
• Economy Flex
  • Rescheduling Fee - 50 usd (+ fare difference)
  • Flight Cancellation Fee - 50 usd

Destinations Ethiopian Airlines

Africa's largest airline flies to approximately 150 destinations on every continent except Australia. For a current list of destinations, visit ethiopianairlines.com.

The vast majority of flights depart from Ethiopia's largest airport Addis Ababa ADD.

You'll see Ethiopian Airlines aircraft at the following airports where they fly from Addis Ababa:

Africa

• Angola - Luanda
• Benin - Cotonou
• Botswana - Gaborone
• Burkina Faso - Ouagadougou
• Burundi - Bujumbura
• Cameroon - Douala (you can also buy a ticket between Douala and Malabo), Yaounde (you can also buy a ticket between Yaounde and Libreville)
• Central African Republic - Bangui
• Chad - N'Djamena
• Comoros - Moroni
• Congo, Democratic Republic of - Goma, Kinshasa, Lubumbashi
• Congo, Republic of - Brazzaville, Pointe Noire
• Ivory Coast - Abidjan (you can also buy tickets from Abidjan to Conakry and New York)
• Djibouti - Djibouti (in addition to Addis Ababa, direct flights from Dire Dawa)
• Egypt - Cairo
• Equatorial Guinea - Malabo (you can also buy a ticket between Malabo and Douala)
• Ethiopia - Arba Minch, Asosa, Axum, Awasa, Bahar Dar, Dembidolo, Dessie, Dire Dawa, Gambela, Goba, Gode, Humera, Jijiga, Jimma, Kebri Dahar, Mekele, Semera
• Gabon - Libreville (you can also buy a ticket between Libreville and Yaounde)
• Ghana - Accra
• Guinea - Conakry (you can also buy tickets between Conakry and Abidjan
• Kenya - Mombasa, Nairobi
• Liberia - Monrovia
• Madagascar - Antananarivo, Nosy Be
• Malawi - Blantyre, Lilongwe
• Mali - Bamako (you can also buy a ticket from Bamako to Dakar)
• Mozambique - Beira, Maputo
• Namibia - Windhoek
• Niger - Niamey
• Nigeria - Abuja, Enugu, Kano, Lagos
• Rwanda - Kigali
• Senegal - Dakar (you can also buy a ticket between Dakar and Bamako
• Seychelles - Seychelles Victoria
• Somalia - Bosaso, Garowe, Hargeisa, Mogadishu
• South Africa - Cape Town, Johannesburg
• South Sudan - Juba
• Sudan - Khartoum, Port Sudan
• Tanzania - Dar es Salaam, Kilimanjaro, Zanzibar
• Togo - Lomé (you can also buy a ticket between Lomé and New York)
• Uganda - Entebbe
• Zambia - Lusaka, Ndola
• Zimbabwe - Bulawayo, Harare, Victoria Falls

Search for flights to Africa on ethiopian.com

Asia

• Bangladesh - Dhaka
• Bahrain - Bahrain International
• China - Beijing PEK, Chengdu Tianfu, Guangzhou, Shanghai
• Hong Kong - Hong Kong International (you can also buy a ticket between Hong Kong and Bangkok)
• India - Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi, Mumbai
• Indonesia - Jakarta (you can also buy a ticket between Jakarta and Bangkok)
• Israel - Tel Aviv
• Japan - Tokyo (you can also buy a ticket between Tokyo and Seoul)
• Jordan - Amman
• Kuwait - Kuwait City
• Lebanon - Beirut
• Malaysia - Kuala Lumpur (you can also buy a ticket between KL and Singapore)
• Oman - Muscat
• Pakistan - Karachi
• Philippines - Manila
• Qatar - Doha
• Saudi Arabia - Dammam, Jeddah, Riyadh
• Singapore - Singapore Changi (you can also buy a ticket between Singapore and KL)
• South Korea - Seoul (you can also buy a ticket between Seoul and Tokyo)
• Thailand - Bangkok (you can also buy a ticket between Bangkok and Jakarta and Hong Kong)
• United Arab Emirates - Dubai DXB

Europe

• Austria - Vienna (you can also buy a ticket between Vienna and Copenhagen)
• Belgium - Brussels
• Denmark - Copenhagen (tickets between Copenhagen and Vienna can also be purchased)
• France - Marseille, Paris CDG
• Germany - Frankfurt
• Greece - Athens
• Italy - Milan (you can also buy a ticket between Milan and Zurich), Rome
• Norway - Oslo (you can also buy a ticket between Oslo and Stockholm)
• Poland - Warsaw
• Portugal - Lisbon
• Russia - Moscow DME
• Spain - Madrid
• Sweden - Stockholm (you can also buy a ticket between Stockholm and Oslo)
• Switzerland - Geneva (you can also buy a ticket between Geneva and Manchester), Zurich (you can also buy a ticket between Zurich and Milan)
• Turkey - Istanbul
• United Kingdom - London Gatwick, London Heathrow, Manchester (you can also buy a ticket between Manchester and Geneva)

North America

• Canada - Toronto
• USA - Atlanta, Chicago, Newark, New York (you can also buy a ticket between New York and Abidjan and Lomé), Washington

South America

• Argentina - Buenos Aires Ezeiza (stopover in Sao Paulo)
• Brazil - Sao Paulo (you can also buy a ticket between Sao Paulo and Buenos Aires)