Flights Lagos -> Accra (LOS-ACC) — USD Fares, Airlines, Frequency
21 scheduled departures a week link Lagos (LOS) in Nigeria with Accra (ACC) — about 3 a day — flown by 1 catalogued carrier at a scheduled block time near 1.2 hours.
Lagos to Accra is one of the busiest short-haul links in West Africa, connecting Nigeria’s largest city with Ghana’s capital, with around 21 flights a week — three a day. The route carries business travellers, traders and people visiting family between the two neighbouring countries. Block time is a little over an hour.
Great-circle distance Lagos–Accra is about 401 km, computed from the stored coordinates of LOS (6.58, 3.32) and ACC (5.61, -0.17). What the figure fixes is the sector profile — 401 km against a scheduled 1.2-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 LOS–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
1 carrier operates LOS–ACC: Arik Air (W3), a full-service airline based in Nigeria, outside the global alliances, with a 23 kg checked-baggage baseline in our table. We estimate about 21 weekly departures on the corridor, with a scheduled block time near 1.2 hours.
Arik Air operates LOS-ACC, flying the short regional sector direct to Accra. The route is built for quick travel between two major West African cities, and the high frequency means a missed flight rarely costs more than a few hours.
| Carrier | Baggage baseline | Alliance |
|---|---|---|
| Arik Air (W3) | 23 kg | none |
Arik Air bases its operation at Lagos (LOS), which is where the corridor’s recovery capacity sits. A hub carrier at the disrupted end has spare aircraft, spare crew and a connecting bank to reflow you through; the same airline at its outstation end usually has one aircraft a day and no local engineering. If the schedule matters, the direction you fly changes your odds.
A single-carrier corridor concentrates risk. With only Arik Air in our table for LOS–ACC, there is no competing airline to be moved onto without buying a new ticket, and no second price to hold the fare down. Both effects are real and both are worth pricing in: check whether a one-stop routing through a larger hub gives you an alternative on the day, even if it costs an hour or two more.
USD fares — LOS-ACC
$353 was the 2026-W29 reading in our weekly fare log for LOS–ACC, across 4 readings that range $203 to $368.
LOS-ACC fares rise around the December holidays and major regional events but stay moderate for most of the year, helped by the short distance and steady demand. Two to four weeks of lead time usually secures a reasonable economy fare in USD.
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 21 weekly departures, the practical constraint is often seat availability on the days you can actually travel, not the headline fare.
One thing our fare data cannot tell you: whether the quote includes a checked bag. The cache stores a price and a carrier, not a fare family. On LOS–ACC that matters most where a low-cost carrier or a basic-economy bucket is in the mix, because the cheapest screen number and the cheapest all-in number are then two different itineraries. Compare after adding the bag you will actually carry.
Has the LOS–ACC fare moved? 4 weekly readings
4 weekly readings between 2026-W20 and 2026-W29 put the cached LOS–ACC low between $203 and $368 — a $165 spread, 81% of the cheapest reading. The low landed in 2026-W23; the last reading in this table, 2026-W29, was $353. 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 | $368 | UN |
| 2026-W23 | $203 | — |
| 2026-W27 | $365 | UN |
| 2026-W29 | $353 | P4 |
The cached low fell 4% between the first and last reading, from $368 to $353. 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 $203 was achievable on LOS–ACC inside the window, so a quote well above $368 is worth a second search.
Each row is a single weekly snapshot of the cheapest published quote, taken on one day, not an average of everything sold that week. Two consequences follow. A one-week dip can be a single small fare bucket rather than a trend, and a gap between weeks means we did not sample, not that fares vanished.
Nonstop, direct and one-stop on LOS–ACC
1.2 hours is the scheduled nonstop block time on LOS–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 LOS–ACC the practical test is the elapsed-time figure: compare it against the 1.2-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
21 weekly departures across 1 carrier mean a live LOS–ACC search returns several price points for the same day; our weekly fare log has recorded readings as low as $353 (see the dated history on this page). Scheduled nonstop block time is 1.2 hours, so any result far above that is connecting whatever the screen says.
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A live LOS–ACC search is only comparable once three things are pinned: the cabin and passenger count, so totals are like for like; the elapsed time, which separates a genuine nonstop from a routing that merely costs the same; and the baggage the fare includes. Skip any of the three and you are comparing two different products.
Flexible dates are the highest-leverage setting on this corridor. Our own cache shows month-to-month movement on LOS–ACC that dwarfs the difference between booking gates, so one search across a whole month tells you more than five searches on a single date. Where the dates cannot move — a pilgrimage window, a school term, a contract start — book earlier instead of searching harder.
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 is the capital of Ghana and a commercial centre of West Africa, a coastal city closely tied to Lagos by trade and the movement of people. For travellers from Lagos it is most often a business, trade or family-visit destination.
Beyond LOS, our catalogue reaches Accra from 2 other origins: Johannesburg (JNB) and Luanda (LAD). That matters when the LOS–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 Lagos to Accra? Direct LOS-ACC flights are operated by Arik Air. Compare baggage baseline and alliance in the carrier table above.
How long is the LOS-ACC flight and how often does it run? Block time is about 1.2 hours. The LOS-ACC route runs roughly 21 flights per week across all carriers.
How much does a LOS-ACC flight cost and when is it cheapest? Our rough planning range is $400-900 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 LOS-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
- Lagos airport (LOS) — Murtala Muhammed International, Nigeria: 19 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 LOS–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.