Ethiopian Airways’ 10 New Extremely-Lengthy Routes In 2026 [Full List]

This Is Ethiopian’s Longest Route

Most articles that study the size of flights give attention to the utmost block time, which is the strategy taken right here. The data is from Ethiopian’s schedule submission to OAG for June 2026 to March 2027, and relies on nonstop and one-stop companies. Some could not like this mixed strategy, but it surely supplies an entire image of the provider’s passenger operations.

Block time is simple. Reflecting slot possession, it contains taxi time at each ends of a route, the flight time, and a brief interval for delays. It’s measured as chocks-off-to-chocks-on, which actually means stand-to-stand or gate-to-gate. It balances the necessity for a aggressive schedule with excessive plane productiveness and excessive reliability.

Timed as much as 18 hours and half-hour, ADD to Washington Dulles Worldwide Airport (IAD) by way of Lomé–Tokoin Worldwide Airport (LFW) is Ethiopian’s longest nonstop passenger service on this sense. Flights function thrice weekly utilizing the 270-seat Boeing 787-8. The provider additionally serves IAD with a cease in Rome Fiumicino, however that isn’t primary for block time.

The aim of pausing in LFW is to feed is to feed Boeing 737 working accomplice ASKY. Passengers could join from a number of cities in Central and West Africa to/from IAD with out backtracking by way of ADD. Unsurprisingly, reserving information exhibits that most individuals fly between IAD and the Anglophone cities of Accra and Lagos.

Ethiopian’s 2nd To Fifth-Longest Markets

A number of Ethiopian routes are timed at as much as 18 hours, as summarized within the following desk. They’ve varied different issues in widespread, together with using the 787-8. All flights are destined for the US, and all cease en route. Most achieve this in Rome Fiumicino Airport (FCO). That is merely because of ADD’s famend excessive elevation, which implies plane can not depart on very lengthy flights with a excessive payload. The stopover treatments this. Ethiopia’s new airport will allow nonstop flights in each instructions.

Discover Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta Worldwide Airport (ATL), which is the world’s busiest airport for passengers however not for flights. Ethiopian suspended flights there between early February and Might 22. Its return occurred sooner than initially scheduled. Between March 2025 and February 2026, the US Division of Transportation exhibits that it stuffed simply 58.4% of seats, which made it the provider’s worst-performing US market on this sense. Maybe it’s shocking that it has returned in any respect.

Ethopian’s sixth To Tenth-Longest Hyperlinks

Timed as much as 17 hours and 55 minutes, ADD to JFK by way of LFW is sixth. Working 4 occasions weekly from December utilizing the 787-8, this route will complement the prevailing hyperlink by way of Côte d’Ivoire. It will thus serve JFK eight occasions weekly. Nevertheless, all is just not fairly because it appears, as ADD-LFW-EWR is not going to function throughout the winter. As a substitute, it will shift to JFK.

In seventh place is ADD to Buenos Aires by way of São Paulo. A every day service exists, with fifth freedom rights, variously on the Airbus A350-900 and Boeing 777-200LR. Many passengers proceed by way of ADD to China, Israel, India, Japan, and Thailand.

Then there’s ADD to IAD by way of FCO (as much as 17 hours and 10 minutes; every day, primarily on the A350-1000 and infrequently the A350-900), ADD to Toronto by way of FCO (as much as 17 hours and 5 minutes; primarily utilizing the A350-900), and at last Tokyo Narita again to ADD by way of Seoul Incheon (as much as 16 hours and 55 minutes; 4 weekly A350-900).