MGQ Airport (Aden Adde International)

Aden Adde International (MGQ, ICAO HCMM) serves Mogadishu, Somalia and is a destination reached by travellers flying from across Africa. Our catalogue links 0 direct destinations out of MGQ and 2 African origins into it, served by 2 carriers.

At a glance

2 catalogued corridors touch Mogadishu (MGQ / HCMM) in Somalia: 0 outbound and 2 inbound, flown by 2 carriers. 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 2 sectors under four hours, 0 of four to seven and 0 beyond seven.

The route mix at MGQ splits into 2 short sectors 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. MGQ is the IATA code you will see on a ticket, a baggage tag and a departure board, while HCMM 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 MGQ

2 carriers appear on the MGQ corridors covered here; for the 2 we hold details on, checked-baggage baselines are 23 kg, and 2 of them belong to a global alliance (Star Alliance 1, SkyTeam 1). That list is built from the 2 corridors this site catalogues through MGQ, so it is our coverage rather than the airport’s full published schedule.

These carriers operate the MGQ corridors catalogued on this site.

Alliance spread decides how easily a disruption at MGQ gets fixed. With 1 Star Alliance carrier, 1 SkyTeam 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 and Kenya Airways +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 MGQ

Addis Ababa to Mogadishu (ADD–MGQ) heads the MGQ list below, at about 5 flights a week on ET.

The USD market-low column is the cheapest fare our weekly cache recorded on the corridor across all carriers.

About 100% of the roughly 12 weekly departures catalogued at MGQ 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 2.0 h to 2.0 h. That range is the practical reason a single connecting-time rule does not work at MGQ: 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 MGQ

1 instrument reaches MGQ: the Montreal Convention 1999. Somalia 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).

Mogadishu’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.

Mogadishu’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.

Corridors and typical fares from MGQ

0 of the 2 MGQ 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: 2 run under four hours, 0 four to seven and 0 beyond seven.

Most MGQ corridors here serve intra-Africa and Gulf-hub business travellers. The mix is 2 short intra-Africa hops (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 2 short corridors under four hours from MGQ 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 MGQ — 2 routes

2 catalogued routes are listed below for MGQ, reaching 2 countries, led by Ethiopia and Kenya. Our catalogue records 0 departure and 2 arrival corridors at MGQ, 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.

• ADD -> MGQ
• NBO -> MGQ

These are guides, not booking screens. Behind each link sit the operating carriers, an estimated weekly frequency, the scheduled nonstop block time, the great-circle distance that would determine an EU261 or UK261 band where either regulation reaches the corridor, and any cached fare evidence we hold. Price is the last of those to matter, not the first.

What you are looking at is our coverage of Mogadishu, 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 MGQ airport connected? MGQ (Mogadishu) is reachable on 2 direct routes in our catalogue — see the full route list above.

What are the IATA and ICAO codes for MGQ airport? The IATA code is MGQ and the ICAO code is HCMM. The airport serves Mogadishu, Somalia.

How can I check fares and schedules for routes through MGQ? 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 MGQ? Carriers on MGQ corridors catalogued here: Ethiopian Airlines, Kenya Airways. See the airlines table above for alliance and baggage.

Can I claim compensation for a disrupted flight at MGQ? No fixed cash-compensation scheme applies to Mogadishu 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.

• Montreal Convention 1999 — ICAO

• AirHelp — flight-compensation claims

• Montreal Convention 1999 — ICAO — the ICAO treaty collection, the source for the Montreal Convention 1999 baggage and delay liability limits.

• AirHelp — flight-compensation claims — a commercial claims service, cited as the industry explainer alongside the regulator rather than instead of it.

Two-source discipline applies to every passenger-rights claim on this site: the regulator’s own text for the rule, and a commercial explainer only as a secondary reading. Where the two disagree, the regulator wins. Compensation figures stay in the currency of the instrument — euro for EU261, pound for UK261, Canadian dollar for APPR, SDR for Montreal — because converting them to USD would imply a precision the instruments do not have.

Related

• Flights to Somalia — country landing page: 2 catalogued corridors from African airports, carriers, visa row and the USD fare floor we have on file.

On African corridors the useful alternative is frequently a different gateway or a different airline, not a different city.