Flights Addis Ababa -> Mumbai (ADD-BOM) — USD Fares, Airlines, Frequency
7 scheduled departures a week link Addis Ababa (ADD) in Ethiopia with Mumbai (BOM) — roughly one a day — flown by 1 catalogued carrier at a scheduled block time near 5.5 hours.
Addis Ababa to Mumbai links Ethiopia with India’s financial capital, with around 7 flights a week, one a day. The route carries business travellers, members of the Indian community in East Africa, and passengers connecting through Addis Ababa from across the continent. Block time is about five and a half hours.
Great-circle distance Addis Ababa–Mumbai is about 3,835 km, computed from the stored coordinates of ADD (8.98, 38.80) and BOM (19.09, 72.87). What the figure fixes is the sector profile — 3,835 km against a scheduled 5.5-hour block time — and the fuel-and-crew economics behind the fare floor. It does not fix a compensation amount. No fixed-tariff compensation scheme reaches ADD–BOM. EU261 and UK261 do band by distance, but they only cover flights departing an EU/EEA or UK airport — plus arrivals there on a bloc-licensed carrier — and neither endpoint here is one, whoever operates the flight. The Montreal Convention 1999 is what applies, and it pays provable loss, not a tariff.
Airlines on this route
1 carrier operates ADD–BOM: Ethiopian Airlines (ET), a full-service airline based in Ethiopia, a member of Star Alliance, with a 23 kg checked-baggage baseline in our table. We estimate about 7 weekly departures on the corridor, with a scheduled block time near 5.5 hours.
Ethiopian Airlines operates ADD-BOM, flying a full-service widebody direct to Mumbai with a checked baggage allowance and meals included. Addis Ababa is Ethiopian’s main hub, so the route also feeds a wide network of connections from across Africa onward to India.
| Carrier | Baggage baseline | Alliance |
|---|---|---|
| Ethiopian Airlines (ET) | 23 kg | Star Alliance |
Our carrier table records a diaspora / migrant-worker baggage uplift of +5 kg on Ethiopian Airlines. Read that as a carrier promotion, not a universal entitlement: uplifts of this kind are normally tied to specific fare families and specific corridors, they are rarely honoured on a codeshare or interline segment issued by another airline, and the cheapest promotional fare buckets are the ones most often excluded. Confirm the allowance against your own booking class before you pack to it.
USD fares — ADD-BOM
$296 was the lowest one-way economy price the Travelpayouts feed returned in our weekly snapshot for ADD–BOM. That is a single cached observation on this one corridor — not a low across the site’s fare cache, and not a live price — so read it as an observed floor for ADD–BOM on that date.
ADD-BOM fares climb around the Indian wedding season, the Diwali holidays and the summer. For those dates, booking two to three months ahead is sensible. Outside the peaks, five to eight weeks usually secures a reasonable economy fare in USD.
Across the 2 departure months our cache holds a one-way low for, the cheapest reading on ADD–BOM was $296 for a Jan 2027 departure and the dearest was $306 for Oct 2026 — a spread of $10 between the best and worst month in the same cache. Month-to-month movement of that size is normal on this corridor and is usually worth more than any single booking trick.
| Departure month | Cheapest one-way seen (USD) |
|---|---|
| Oct 2026 | $306 |
| Jan 2027 | $296 |
ADD–BOM fare history — 2026-W20 to 2026-W25
4 weekly readings between 2026-W20 and 2026-W25 put the cached ADD–BOM low between $326 and $612 — a $286 spread, 88% of the cheapest reading. The low landed in 2026-W24; the last reading in this table, 2026-W25, was $401. Each row is one weekly snapshot of the cheapest published quote, not an average of everything sold that week.
| ISO week | Cached low (USD) | Carrier on the quote |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-W20 | $612 | EY |
| 2026-W23 | $580 | G9 |
| 2026-W24 | $326 | — |
| 2026-W25 | $401 | — |
The cached low fell 34% between the first and last reading, from $612 to $401. Read it with the sample size in front of you: 4 observations over a ten-week window is a signal about this corridor’s volatility, not a forecast. What it does establish is a defensible floor — you now know $326 was achievable on ADD–BOM inside the window, so a quote well above $612 is worth a second search.
Carriers behind the readings: EY and G9. Where a row shows a dash the gate returned no carrier code with the quote, which usually means a multi-carrier or agency-issued itinerary. Do not read a carrier name here as that airline’s own published fare — it is the marketing carrier on the cheapest itinerary a gate had loaded that week.
Entry rules at Mumbai (BOM)
Entry rule for India, by passport: e-Visa (e-Tourist) available to many nationalities — check eligibility for your passport on the official portal. Fee Depends on nationality and visa length — shown on the official portal; maximum stay Depends on the e-Visa category granted. That row names the passports it covers; for any other passport, check the linked government portal before booking.
| Entry type | Fee | Maximum stay | Official source |
|---|---|---|---|
| e-Visa (e-Tourist) available to many nationalities — check eligibility for your passport on the official portal | Depends on nationality and visa length — shown on the official portal | Depends on the e-Visa category granted | India official source |
Worth knowing before you book: Photo and passport scan required at application.
The trap on ADD–BOM is not usually the destination visa — it is the transit. A connection can put you airside in a third country that requires a transit visa for your nationality even though you never leave the terminal, and airlines deny boarding at origin when documentation for the whole itinerary is not in order. Check every country your ticket touches, not just India, and check it against your own passport rather than a fellow traveller’s.
Search live fares
7 weekly departures across 1 carrier mean a live ADD–BOM search returns several price points for the same day; our cached floor for the corridor is $296. Scheduled nonstop block time is 5.5 hours, so any result far above that is connecting whatever the screen says.
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Three checks make a live ADD–BOM result comparable. Fix the passenger count and cabin first, because a per-passenger fare and a party total look identical on a results page. Then read the elapsed time next to the price — a one-stop itinerary and the 5.5-hour nonstop are different products at the same number. Then check whether the fare carries the bag you are actually taking.
Date flexibility beats every other lever on ADD–BOM. Month-scanning surfaces the seasonal shape our fare log records; repeated searching on one fixed date mostly surfaces the same fare bucket. When the calendar is not negotiable — pilgrimage, school holidays, a job start — the useful move is to buy sooner, because scarcity, not timing, is what sets the price then.
About Mumbai
3 catalogued corridors in this site’s data reach Mumbai (BOM), Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International, ICAO VABB, from 3 catalogued origins and 3 carriers in total. That count is this site’s coverage of Mumbai, not the airport’s published schedule. Each of those corridors has its own guide with carriers, weekly frequency, scheduled block time and whatever the fare cache holds.
Mumbai is India’s financial and entertainment capital, a coastal megacity on the Arabian Sea with a long history of trade. For travellers from Addis Ababa it is a business destination and a busy gateway into western India.
Beyond ADD, our catalogue reaches Mumbai from 2 other origins: Johannesburg (JNB) and Nairobi (NBO). That matters when the ADD–BOM fare is unattractive: on a continent where positioning flights are cheap, flying out of a different gateway is a real option, and each of those corridors has its own guide, carriers and cached fare floor on this site.
Mumbai is a based hub for Air India. A hub airport behaves differently from an outstation: connecting banks are built around it, spare aircraft and crew sit there, and a disruption is far more likely to be recovered the same day. It also means the hub carrier usually sets the price on routes into BOM, and competitors price against it rather than the other way round.
FAQ
Which airlines fly Addis Ababa to Mumbai? Direct ADD-BOM flights are operated by Ethiopian Airlines. Compare baggage baseline and alliance in the carrier table above.
How long is the ADD-BOM flight and how often does it run? Block time is about 5.5 hours. The ADD-BOM route runs roughly 7 flights per week across all carriers.
How much does a ADD-BOM flight cost and when is it cheapest? Our rough planning range is $700-1,600 USD (an editorial estimate, not an observed fare); the fare observation on this page shows what our weekly snapshot recorded and when. Intra-Africa and Gulf-hub transit fares move week-to-week; 4-8 weeks is the typical sweet spot.
What is the checked baggage allowance on ADD-BOM? It varies by carrier and fare class — see the baggage-baseline column in the carrier table above. Full-service carriers usually include 23-30 kg, while low-cost carriers sell it as an add-on. Confirm on the airline’s site before booking.
What currency is used in Mumbai? Mumbai uses USD. Fares in this guide are quoted in USD; budget on-the-ground spending in USD.
Related routes and reading
- Addis Ababa airport (ADD) — Bole International, Ethiopia: 13 catalogued departure corridors and 6 arrival corridors.
- Mumbai airport (BOM) — Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International, India: 0 catalogued departure corridors and 3 arrival corridors.
Where this page covers one corridor, the linked airport guides cover the field: the full catalogued route list, based hub carriers, alliance mix and the compensation regime that applies there. Both ADD and BOM are linked deliberately, because departure airport and operating carrier — not destination — decide which rules cover a delay.