Abuja - Post Report Question and Answers
What is your home city/country? How long is the trip to post from there, with what connections? How easy/difficult is it to travel to this city/country?
About 27 hours from the West Coast and it takes two flights. - Mar 2024
Alexandria, VA. Best case scenario, it's a 16 hour trip with one stop in either London, Paris or Frankfurt. Travel from Abuja generally sucks. Even trips within Africa take forever and include one, two, or three stops, since there are few direct connections. - Sep 2019
We fly in here from Washington, DC or Chicago. The flights almost always go through Frankfurt, which is a great airport and easy to use. We used to have to fly to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, then come on with a smaller flight. Now we don't, thank heaven, as the Addis airport leaves something to be desired. Some flights also come straight from Paris or Istanbul. - Feb 2019
From the US you can fly via Frankfurt or Paris. Lufthansa is probably more preferred by most. Flight time from IAD is about 9 hours to FRA then another 6 down to Abuja. You can fly to/from Abuja from Accra, Paris, Frankfurt, Lagos, London, Dubai, and Addis. - Apr 2018
8 hours from D.C. to either Frankfurt or Paris, then another 6 hours to Abuja (about 18 hours total including layovers). - Apr 2017
I am currently in Abuja. It takes about 20 hours from Washington DC, through Frankfurt before landing in Abuja. As of this writing, some connections are taking longer due to the need to stop in Ghana or Cameroon for refueling. Flight time from DC to Frankfurt is about 8 and 1/2 hours; Frankfurt to Abuja takes about 5 and 1/2 hours. The layover in Frankfurt is about 3 hours. - Jun 2016
Washington, DC. Fly Lufthansa/United out of Dulles to Frankfurt, then it is direct from there to Abuja. Total flight time is about 15 hours. - Aug 2015
Southwest of the States. 24+ hours, through London, then Stateside hops to home base. - Jun 2015
It's about 30 hours to get back to SE USA. Air France and Lufthansa service this area. The connections can have long layovers but are usually reasonably efficient. - Nov 2014
Southwestern U.S. Flights through Paris or Frankfurt and through various U.S. airports. We always figure on at least 24 hours travel if all things go well. - Aug 2014
From the U.S. get a direct flight to Frankfurt, Paris or London, then fly 5.5 hours to Abuja. Do not fly to Lagos - you must change airports to catch a domestic flight to Abuja and this has all sorts of safety and timing issues. - May 2014
Northeastern US - 20ish hours. If you only want one layover, you can fly through Paris, London, or Frankfurt (London has one fight daily, Paris and Frankfurt are overnight). If you want 2+ layovers, you can fly through Lagos. - May 2013
