ET687 from New Delhi to Addis Ababa, tracked live

ET687 distance and great-circle path

ET687 covers 4,552 km, or 2,828 miles. That makes it a long-haul flight, a widebody route with a full night's flying time. Of the 439 routes we track, it ranks 237 by distance.

New Delhi to Addis Ababa is 4,552 km (2,828 miles) on an initial heading of 249°, which is broadly west. Watches move 2 hours back between the two gates. It links India with Ethiopia.

Our guide explains how the DEL-ADD route appears on a tracker map.

Can the Boeing 777F comfortably fly ET687?

Not at all. At roughly 49% of its range, this is an easy trip for a Boeing 777F. The airline picked it for cabin size, not distance. The full numbers are on our aircraft page for the Boeing 777F.

What to know about ET687

• Time change: you land 2 hours behind the time you left.
• High airport at the end: ADD sits 7,656 ft up, so the plane lands faster than it looks.

What flying DEL to ADD takes

Altitude, not distance, is the constraint here: Addis Ababa sits at 7,656 ft, where thin air lengthens the takeoff run and cuts climb performance. Ethiopian Airlines needs a widebody twinjet, and the sector needs long-range tanks and a cabin crew rest provision, which rules out most single-aisle types. The two ends are not symmetric. Addis Ababa is roughly 6,879 ft higher than the other airport, so the same aircraft is planned differently in each direction. Westbound, this route pushes into the prevailing winds aloft, which is why the eastbound leg is normally the quicker one. In daylight the sun sits on the left (south-facing) side of the cabin for most of the crossing.

How we verified this

The origin and destination on this page are the ones we verified for callsign ETH687 through adsbdb, not a schedule copied from elsewhere. We have logged it airborne on 40 days between 2026-09-19 and 2026-10-28. Timings are observations, not an official operational status: always confirm with the airline before travelling.

This page was published from our own tracking record rather than a third-party schedule feed, so it grows as we see the flight again. The seven-day log below is the raw version of the same evidence.

Our database contains 7 observations of ET687 across 7 UTC dates in this window, most recently 2026-10-28. Those records contain 7 distinct transponder addresses. The most frequently resolved route was DEL-ADD (7 records).

The median recorded visibility was 97 minutes. That is time inside receiver coverage, not airborne duration or an on-time-performance measurement.