Originally Posted by
B747-437B
West African air connections tend to be linguistically grouped. Accra will get you excellent connections to anglophone countries like Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Liberia, etc.. For the Francophone countries, the connectivity is better from Abidjan, Dakar, etc.. The main hubs are decently connected, so if you can plan your trips keeping that in mind you will find flight options more friendly than 27 hour connections!
I know that many things in Africa run along linguistic lines (availability of wine being one!) but I disagree here. Accra has more flights to Abidjan than to Freetown or Monrovia, for instance. I do accept that the hubs have decent (relative) connectivity, but really the only hubs in the region are Abidjan for Air Cote d'Ivoire or Lome for ASKY.... I was hoping that there were more than that, given that I don't need to be in either CdI or Togo
Originally Posted by
LAX_Esq
I was in your boat and couldn't find an 'authoritative source.' I used a combination of Wikipedia (look up the airports and check the cities / airlines one-by-one) and Skyscanner. I suppose you could also look up the airports on FlightStats.com and check an entire week's worth of arrivals and departures to see who is going in and out. I'm not an expert but I think I'd like to think I'd have have found a better method if there were one. So, I think you're doing all you can.
Thanks for the confirmation of my fears.