Addis Ababa to Lusaka flight

Flights from Addis Ababa to Lusaka start at €287.47 and take 7h 49m at their fastest.

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The Flights from Addis Ababa to Lusaka starts at €287.47 and takes 7h 49m door to door, run by 1 operator over 3,039 km, with around 5 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 45 days before departure.

Checked September 13, 2026Priced for September 29, 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 7h 49mDoor to door
  • 4h 39mMoving
  • €287.47From
  • 449.8 kgCO2
Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on September 29, 2026

Two journeys we can sell today, with the service number each operator files them under.

Cheapest€261.51
  1. Ethiopian Airlines EA391707:302h 1m09:31Addis Ababa ADDNairobi NBO
  2. China Southern Airlines CS866510:272h 47m13:14Nairobi NBOLusaka LUN

Changes at Nairobi, with 56 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.

Door to door 8h 54mCO2 758.7 kgChanges 1Fixed, no changes

Fastest€345.29
  1. Ethiopian Airlines EA134006:154h 39m10:54Addis Ababa ADDLusaka LUN

Door to door 7h 49mCO2 449.8 kgChanges 0Fixed, no changes

Carriers

Airlines

Speed, flexibility and what is on board. Nothing here is a rating, because we have not earned one.

Every operator we sell on this corridor. Speed is the carrier's own typical cruising speed, not the average over this route.
OperatorFromFastestTypical speedFlexibilityOn board
Ethiopian Airlines€283.347h 25m740 km/hFixed fareNot published
  • Ethiopian Airlines

The trip ends at Lusaka Central Train Station. Everything past the gates belongs to somebody else, the rooms included.

A hotel room

A room in Lusaka for the night the flight gets in

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Booking window

When to book Addis Ababa to Lusaka

The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.

  1. €359.4590 days
  2. €267.4160 days
  3. €214.9045 days
  4. €220.2130 days
  5. €358.8621 days
  6. €287.4714 days
  7. €352.967 days
  8. €407.833 days
  9. €490.431 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 45 days ahead, at €214.90.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 128 percent. The most expensive point is €490.43, 1 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 45 days before departure. Waiting from here has usually cost money on this corridor rather than saved it.
Day of the week

Which departure day costs least

Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.

  1. €352.96Sun
  2. €308.12Mon
  3. €306.35Tue
  4. €383.64Wed
  5. €422.58Thu
  6. €392.49Fri
  7. €393.08Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

The stations, airports and ports each mode on this corridor actually uses.

Addis Ababa

Air
  • ADD

Lusaka

Air
  • LUN
The journey

What the journey actually looks like

Direct or connecting, how far the route really runs, and what happens when a connection is missed.

Direct or connecting
20% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 80% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 3,039 km against 2,951 km in a straight line, a detour of 3 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
Where the change is
Connections are made at Kigali, Nairobi, Ndola, Lilongwe. The gap between arriving and leaving is 53 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 18 percent chance of not being made on the timetable alone. Part of this journey is a self transfer between separate tickets, so leave more time than the minimum and expect to check in again.
First and last departure
The first service of the day leaves Addis Ababa at 06:15 and the last at 07:30, across 5 departures. The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Addis Ababa to Lusaka

The questions people actually ask about this trip, answered from the same prices and times the page above is built on rather than written once and left to go stale.

How long does the Flight from Addis Ababa to Lusaka take?

The Flight from Addis Ababa to Lusaka takes 7h 49m door to door, of which 4h 39m is spent moving. The route runs 3,039 km. The difference between the two times is reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end, which every time on this page includes.

How much does the Flight from Addis Ababa to Lusaka cost?

The Flight from Addis Ababa to Lusaka starts at €287.47 for one passenger, checked on September 13, 2026. A typical fare is €300.45. Both are the total including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so the price here is the price at checkout.

Who runs the Flight from Addis Ababa to Lusaka?

1 operators run the Flight from Addis Ababa to Lusaka: Ethiopian Airlines. Between them they file around 5 departures a day. The operator table on this page compares them on fare, journey time, cruising speed, fare conditions and what is provided on board.

Which terminal does the Flight from Addis Ababa to Lusaka use?

The Flight from Addis Ababa to Lusaka leaves from Addis Ababa ADD and arrives at Lusaka LUN. Allow about 3h 10m for reaching the departure terminal and leaving the arrival one. That time is already inside every door to door figure quoted on this page.

When should I book the Flight from Addis Ababa to Lusaka?

Fares for the Flight from Addis Ababa to Lusaka bottom out around 45 days ahead, at €214.90. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 128 percent, measured on September 13, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Flight from Addis Ababa to Lusaka produce?

The Flight from Addis Ababa to Lusaka produces about 449.8 kg of CO2 per passenger over 3039 km, which works out at roughly 148 grams per passenger kilometer. That figure is for the whole journey and for one traveler, not for the vehicle.

Where these numbers come from

Observed service A carrier record shows this named operator serving this named pair, and we carry that through unchanged.

Schedules, seat counts and fares are generated by our own model until the supplier contracts are signed. Places, coordinates, operators, which operator serves which pair, and every distance are real. We would rather say that on every page than let a modeled number pass for a filed one.

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On this page
Every figure above was computed for Addis Ababa to Lusaka on September 13, 2026: 3039 km of route against 2951 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operators, a cheapest fare of €287.47, and 7h 49m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

Related journeys

The fare from LUN into Lusaka is the one price on this trip we cannot show you, because it is not ours.

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Getting from LUN into Lusaka

A price agreed before you fly, a driver at arrivals, and a car big enough for the bags.

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