Flights Luanda -> Accra (LAD-ACC) — USD Fares, Airlines, Frequency
3 scheduled departures a week link Luanda (LAD) in Angola with Accra (ACC) — one every 2.3 days on average — flown by 2 catalogued carriers at a scheduled block time near 4.5 hours.
Flight LAD -> ACC is operated by TAAG Angola Airlines, Ethiopian Airlines (~3 flights per week, ~4.5h block time). This is an intra-Africa + Gulf hub transit corridor. As a rough planning range (an editorial estimate, not an observed fare), economy runs about $500-1,500; 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.
Great-circle distance Luanda–Accra is about 2,189 km, computed from the stored coordinates of LAD (-8.86, 13.23) and ACC (5.61, -0.17). What the figure fixes is the sector profile — 2,189 km against a scheduled 4.5-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 LAD–ACC. 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
2 carriers operate LAD–ACC: TAAG Angola Airlines (DT) and Ethiopian Airlines (ET). Our carrier table records checked-baggage baselines of 23 kg; Ethiopian Airlines sits in Star Alliance, with no alliance recorded for DT. That mix decides three things — the fare floor, whether your bag is through-checked on a connection, and which delay regulation covers you.
| Carrier | Baggage baseline | Alliance |
|---|---|---|
| TAAG Angola Airlines (DT) | 23 kg | - |
| Ethiopian Airlines (ET) | 23 kg | Star Alliance |
One column is blank rather than negative. We have no alliance information on record for TAAG Angola Airlines, so this page says nothing about its alliance membership either way. The practical question a connection turns on is narrower anyway: whether the two airlines on your itinerary interline, and whether both sectors sit on one ticket. Both are answerable at the booking screen, and neither depends on an alliance badge.
USD fares — LAD-ACC
$1,250 was the 2026-W24 reading in our weekly fare log for LAD–ACC, across 1 reading that range $1,250 to $1,250.
As a rough planning range (an editorial estimate, not an observed fare), economy on LAD-ACC runs about $500-1,500; the fare observation on this page shows what our weekly snapshot recorded and when. Cached fares from a weekly Travelpayouts snapshot appear in the panel below, with their observation date; fare-month seasonality follows.
Book 4-8 weeks ahead. Fares rise around the December holidays; mid-week departures are usually the cheapest. That window is general guidance rather than a rule for this single pairing; on a corridor with 3 weekly departures, the practical constraint is often seat availability on the days you can actually travel, not the headline fare.
Treat every cached figure on LAD–ACC as a fare, not as a trip cost. What the cache cannot see is the booking class behind the number: checked baggage, seat selection and change rights are all fare-family attributes, and the buckets that produce record-low quotes are the ones that include least. Price the trip you are actually taking.
Baggage on LAD–ACC: baselines, uplift and the exclusions
23 kg is the checked-baggage baseline our carrier table records for the 2 airlines on LAD–ACC, with a recorded diaspora uplift of up to +12 kg on TAAG Angola Airlines. Baselines are economy figures and fare-family dependent. The allowance printed on your issued ticket overrides any table, this one included.
The baseline is the headline, the fare family is the contract. On LAD–ACC the same carrier will sell you a fare beneath its own advertised allowance, and those stripped buckets are exactly the ones that set record-low cached prices. Whatever a table says — this one included — the allowance on your issued itinerary is the number that will be enforced at the counter.
Where our table records a migrant or diaspora uplift — +12 kg on TAAG Angola Airlines and +5 kg on Ethiopian Airlines — three exclusions usually bite. The uplift attaches to nominated corridors rather than the whole network; it rarely survives onto a codeshare or interline segment operated and ticketed by a different airline; and the deepest-discount fare buckets are commonly carved out. None of that makes the uplift fictional, but it does mean it has to be confirmed against your booking class, in writing, before you pack to it.
Nonstop, direct and one-stop on LAD–ACC
4.5 hours is the scheduled nonstop block time on LAD–ACC; any itinerary a search returns well above that is connecting, whatever the screen calls it. “Direct” is a flight-number description, not a promise of a single takeoff and landing. Two separately issued sectors are not one contract.
The distinction is not pedantry. A direct flight keeps one flight number through an intermediate stop, so it can sit in the nonstop filter of a search engine while adding an hour on the ground and a second departure to miss. A connecting itinerary changes flight number and usually aircraft. On LAD–ACC the practical test is the elapsed-time figure: compare it against the 4.5-hour block time before you compare prices.
The second trap is the ticket, not the routing. Two cheap sectors bought separately to reach Accra are not one contract: your bag is not through-checked, you re-clear security and often immigration at the transfer point, and if the first leg lands late the second airline owes you nothing — no rebooking, no refund, no duty of care. A single ticket that costs more can be the cheaper outcome the first time anything slips.
Search live fares
3 weekly departures across 2 carriers mean a live LAD–ACC search returns several price points for the same day; our weekly fare log has recorded readings as low as $1,250 (see the dated history on this page). Scheduled nonstop block time is 4.5 hours, so any result far above that is connecting whatever the screen says.
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Comparing LAD–ACC quotes fairly takes three corrections. Passenger count and cabin have to match across the tabs you are comparing. Elapsed time has to be read beside the price, since a connection can add most of a day to the 4.5-hour nonstop. And the baggage line has to be checked, because the cheapest fare family is usually the one carrying the least.
If anything about your LAD–ACC trip can move, make it the dates. The gap between the cheapest and dearest departure month in our own fare log is routinely larger than any difference between one booking site and another. Fixed dates put you in competition with everyone else holding the same date, and the answer there is to book early rather than to keep looking.
About Accra
3 catalogued corridors in this site’s data reach Accra (ACC), Kotoka International, ICAO DGAA, from 3 catalogued origins and 4 carriers in total. That count is this site’s coverage of Accra, 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.
Accra, Ghana — destination on the intra-Africa + Gulf hub transit corridor. Destination currency: USD (we quote in USD throughout this guide).
Beyond LAD, our catalogue reaches Accra from 2 other origins: Johannesburg (JNB) and Lagos (LOS). That matters when the LAD–ACC 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.
On the ground Ghana uses GHS, while every fare on this site is quoted in USD. That split is deliberate: USD is the only currency that makes a Lagos fare and a Nairobi fare comparable on one page, but it means the card you pay with will convert twice if your bank settles in a third currency. Airline sites often offer payment in GHS or in your home currency — the airline’s own rate is rarely the better of the two.
FAQ
Which airlines fly Luanda to Accra? Direct LAD-ACC flights are operated by TAAG Angola Airlines, Ethiopian Airlines. Compare baggage baseline and alliance in the carrier table above.
How long is the LAD-ACC flight and how often does it run? Block time is about 4.5 hours. The LAD-ACC route runs roughly 3 flights per week across all carriers.
How much does a LAD-ACC flight cost and when is it cheapest? Our rough planning range is $500-1,500 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 LAD-ACC? 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 Accra? Accra uses USD. Fares in this guide are quoted in USD; budget on-the-ground spending in USD.
Related routes and reading
- Luanda airport (LAD) — Quatro de Fevereiro, Angola: 13 catalogued departure corridors and 2 arrival corridors.
- Accra airport (ACC) — Kotoka International, Ghana: 11 catalogued departure corridors and 3 arrival corridors.
The corridor links are there to be used as alternatives, not as further reading. If the LAD–ACC fare or schedule does not work, a different African gateway to Accra is often the better fix — positioning within the continent is cheap relative to the long-haul sector, and the fare gap between two origins to the same destination is regularly wider than the positioning ticket. The catch is that separately issued sectors carry no protection if the first one runs late.