ADD
Addis Ababa Bole International Airport
Addis Ababa Bole International Airport (IATA: ADD, ICAO: HAAB) is a large airport in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. It opened in 1961. It has 2 runways; the longest is 3,800 m (12,467 ft). In 2025 it handled 13.1 million passengers.
Timeline
2 events · 1961–19721961
OpenedAddis Ababa Bole International Airport opens.
18 APR 1972
DisasterEast African Airways Flight 720.43 killed
From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026
Runways & airfield
Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap07R/25L074° / 254° · LIT
LENGTH3,800 m12,467 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEAsphalt
07L/25R074° / 254° · LIT
LENGTH3,700 m12,139 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEAsphalt
Passengers per year
2012–20256.5M
6.9M
8.7M
8.7M
10.2M
12.1M
5.5M
4.6M
6.7M
8.0M
11.8M
13.1M
121415161718202122232425
Routes
16 destinations · 10 countriesYear-round16
ADEAden International AirportYemen · Yemenia804 km500 miAHBAbha International AirportSaudi Arabia · Flynas1,111 km690 miNBOJomo Kenyatta International AirportKenya · Kenya Airways1,164 km723 miJEDKing Abdulaziz International AirportSaudi Arabia · Saudia1,413 km878 miKGLKigali International AirportRwanda · RwandAir1,550 km963 miRUHKing Khalid International AirportSaudi Arabia · Flynas1,964 km1,220 miDOHHamad International AirportQatar · Qatar Airways2,263 km1,406 miAUHZayed International AirportUnited Arab Emirates · Etihad Airways2,405 km1,494 miKWIKuwait International AirportKuwait · Jazeera Airways2,446 km1,520 miDXBDubai International AirportUnited Arab Emirates · flydubai, Emirates2,519 km1,565 miSHJSharjah International AirportUnited Arab Emirates · Air Arabia2,536 km1,576 miISTİstanbul AirportTürkiye · Turkish Airlines3,725 km2,315 miALGHouari Boumediene AirportAlgeria · Air Algérie4,725 km2,936 miCSXChangsha Huanghua International AirportChina · China Southern Airlines8,016 km4,981 miCANGuangzhou Baiyun International AirportChina · China Southern Airlines8,038 km4,995 miXMNXiamen Gaoqi International AirportChina · Xiamen Airlines8,521 km5,295 miMost destinationsFlynas 2China Southern Airlines 2Yemenia 1Kenya Airways 1Saudia 1RwandAir 1
Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from ADD. Blue: cargo. From the Wikipedia article “Addis Ababa Bole International Airport” (revision of 24 Sep 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.
Records & rankings
Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · countryScale: share of airports ranked below, best on the right · ties shown as = and a band · passengers are each airport’s latest year on record
Radio frequencies
7 channelsAPPAPP119.700
GNDBole GND121.900
TWRTWR118.100
ATISATIS128.500
EastAddis center125.200
WestAddis center125.100
CTAFoshkosh traffic118.500