Juba International (JUB, ICAO HSSJ) serves Juba, South Sudan and is a destination reached by travellers flying from across Africa. Our catalogue links 0 direct destinations out of JUB and 1 African origin into it, served by 1 carrier.
At a glance
1 catalogued corridor touch Juba (JUB / HSSJ) in South Sudan: 0 outbound and 1 inbound, flown by 1 carrier. 0 of those corridors carry a cached USD quote in our weekly fare cache; the rest are catalogued on schedule evidence alone. The mix runs 1 sector under four hours, 0 of four to seven and 0 beyond seven.
| Attribute | Detail |
|---|---|
| IATA / ICAO | JUB / HSSJ |
| City | Juba |
| Country | South Sudan |
| Direct destinations (catalogued) | 0 |
| Reached from (African origins) | 1 |
| Coordinates | 4.872, 31.601 |
The route mix at JUB splits into 1 short sector under four hours, 0 medium sectors of four to seven hours and 0 long-haul sectors beyond seven — a profile that tells you what the terminal is actually built around. 0 of the corridors here are flagged in our data as labour-migration or diaspora routes, where checked-baggage terms drive booking decisions more than schedule does.
Two codes, two uses. JUB is the IATA code you will see on a ticket, a baggage tag and a departure board, while HSSJ is the ICAO code used in flight plans, NOTAMs and air-traffic filing. They are not interchangeable: IATA codes are reused across the world’s smaller fields and are the ones that cause mis-booking, which is why every corridor on this site is keyed on the pair of codes rather than a city name.
Airlines serving JUB
1 carrier appears on the JUB corridors covered here; for the 1 we hold details on, checked-baggage baselines are 23 kg, and 1 of them belong to a global alliance (Star Alliance 1). That list is built from the 1 corridors this site catalogues through JUB, so it is our coverage rather than the airport’s full published schedule.
These carriers operate the JUB corridors catalogued on this site.
| Airline | Alliance | Checked baggage | Hajj/Umrah charter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ethiopian Airlines (ET) | Star Alliance | 23 kg | Yes |
Alliance spread decides how easily a disruption at JUB gets fixed. With 1 Star Alliance carrier on these corridors, a passenger stuck here can sometimes be reflowed onto a partner without a new ticket — but only within the same alliance, and only when the original ticket permits it. Between alliances, re-accommodation is a commercial favour rather than an entitlement.
Diaspora and migrant-worker baggage uplift recorded against carriers here: Ethiopian Airlines +5 kg. These are carrier promotions attached to nominated corridors and fare families — they do not follow you onto a partner’s codeshare segment, and the cheapest fare buckets are usually excluded. Confirm against your own booking class rather than the table.
Top routes into JUB
Addis Ababa to Juba (ADD–JUB) heads the JUB list below, at about 7 flights a week on ET.
The USD market-low column is the cheapest fare our weekly cache recorded on the corridor across all carriers.
| Route | Carriers | Freq/wk | Block (h) | Market low (USD) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Addis Ababa (ADD) → Juba (JUB) | ET | ~7 | ~1.8 | — |
About 100% of the roughly 7 weekly departures catalogued at JUB sit on just three corridors. That concentration is why the airport’s overall size tells you nothing useful about your own flight: on the trunk routes a cancellation costs hours, while on the tail of the distribution the next departure can be several days out. Read the frequency column, not the terminal.
Block times across these corridors run from about 1.8 h to 1.8 h. That range is the practical reason a single connecting-time rule does not work at JUB: a short regional inbound and a long-haul outbound have very different delay profiles, and a tight self-built connection between them is where most missed onward flights on this site’s corridors happen. On separate tickets there is no protection at all.
Passenger compensation rights at JUB
1 instrument reaches JUB: the Montreal Convention 1999. South Sudan operates no EU261-style fixed cash scheme, so there is no statutory payout for a long delay — the cover is for baggage, capped at 1,519 SDR per passenger, and for provable delay losses, capped at 6,303 SDR (ICAO limits in force since 28 December 2024).
Juba’s catalogued arrivals sit outside the EU261 / UK261 / GACA / APPR / DOT cash-compensation schemes, so the Montreal Convention is the operative floor — it covers baggage loss and provable delay losses on any international ticket.
| Regime | When it applies | Remedy for a long delay / cancellation |
|---|---|---|
| Montreal Convention 1999 | Any international itinerary — baggage and delay losses. | Compensation for lost, damaged or delayed baggage (up to 1,519 SDR per passenger) and for provable losses caused by delay (up to 6,303 SDR), limits in force since 28 December 2024. |
Juba’s catalogued arrivals sit outside the EU261 / UK261 / GACA / APPR / DOT cash-compensation schemes, so the Montreal Convention is the operative floor — it covers baggage loss and provable delay losses on any international ticket.
| Regime | When it applies | Remedy for a long delay / cancellation |
|---|---|---|
| Montreal Convention 1999 | Any international itinerary — baggage and delay losses. | Compensation for lost, damaged or delayed baggage (up to 1,519 SDR per passenger) and for provable losses caused by delay (up to 6,303 SDR), limits in force since 28 December 2024. |
Corridors and typical fares from JUB
0 of the 1 JUB corridors carry a cached USD quote, so most pricing here is planning-band rather than observed. Fares are quoted in USD across the whole site so corridors from different African markets stay comparable. Sector length drives the shape: 1 run under four hours, 0 four to seven and 0 beyond seven.
Most JUB corridors here serve intra-Africa and Gulf-hub business travellers. The mix is 1 short intra-Africa hop (under 4 h). As rough planning ranges (editorial estimates, not observed fares): intra-Africa $400–900, Gulf hubs $500–1,200, long-haul $800–2,200; each per-route guide below shows the cached fare with the date it was found.
The shape of the fare curve follows the sector length. The 1 short corridor under four hours from JUB price like regional traffic and move mostly with the day of the week; the 0 long-haul corridors beyond seven hours move with season and school holidays, and can double between the cheapest and dearest month in our own cache. Mixing the two on one average would be meaningless, which is why every corridor page carries its own floor.
Direct flights to JUB — 1 route
1 catalogued route is listed below for JUB, reaching 1 country, led by Ethiopia. Our catalogue records 0 departure and 1 arrival corridor at JUB, each linking to a corridor guide with carriers, frequency, block time and any cached fare. The list is this site’s catalogue, not the airport’s timetable.
Each link opens a corridor guide rather than a booking form: carriers, an estimated weekly frequency, scheduled block time, the great-circle distance used that sets an EU261 or UK261 band where either applies, and whatever the fare cache holds. That is deliberate — the useful decision on a corridor is usually which routing and which carrier, and only then which price.
What you are looking at is our coverage of Juba, not its published schedule. Corridors enter the catalogue on audience relevance — diaspora, pilgrimage, intra-Africa and business demand — which means a seasonal or thin regional service can operate here without appearing above. Absence from this list is an editorial boundary, not a claim that a route does not exist.
FAQ
5 questions below answer what travellers ask most often about this page’s subject, drawn from the same route, carrier, airport and fare data as everything above. Where a figure is missing from our data, the answer says so rather than estimating.
How is JUB airport connected? JUB (Juba) is reachable on 1 direct route in our catalogue — see the full route list above.
What are the IATA and ICAO codes for JUB airport? The IATA code is JUB and the ICAO code is HSSJ. The airport serves Juba, South Sudan.
How can I check fares and schedules for routes through JUB? Each route in the list above links to a guide with live USD fares, weekly frequency and the airlines that operate it.
Which airlines fly from JUB? Carriers on JUB corridors catalogued here: Ethiopian Airlines. See the airlines table above for alliance and baggage.
Can I claim compensation for a disrupted flight at JUB? No fixed cash-compensation scheme applies to Juba arrivals, but the Montreal Convention covers baggage loss and provable delay losses on any international ticket.
Sources
2 primary sources cited on this page are regulator and government material, not secondary summaries. Each is listed with what it actually governs, so a claim on this page can be checked against the instrument it comes from. Where a value is missing from our own data we leave the cell blank rather than estimate it.
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Montreal Convention 1999 — ICAO — the ICAO treaty collection, the source for the Montreal Convention 1999 baggage and delay liability limits.
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AirHelp — flight-compensation claims — a commercial claims service, cited as the industry explainer alongside the regulator rather than instead of it.
Every legal claim above is anchored to the instrument that creates it rather than to a summary of it, with commercial explainers cited only alongside, never instead. That is also why amounts appear in euro, pound, Canadian dollar and SDR rather than converted into the USD used for fares: a compensation tariff is a fixed figure in its own currency, and converting it would invent movement the law does not have.
Related
- Flights to South Sudan — country landing page: 1 catalogued corridor from African airports, carriers, visa row and the USD fare floor we have on file.
Corridor pages carry the per-route detail — carriers, weekly frequency, scheduled block time, great-circle distance and whatever the fare cache holds. Airport pages carry the full catalogued route list at that field, the based hub carriers and the compensation regime of the country it sits in. Carrier pages carry the baggage baseline, alliance and the network as this catalogue records it.