Conakry - 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?

Home country is US. It takes about 20 hours, depending on where you live in the States. You transfer through Paris, Lisbon, Istanbul, Addis, etc.. Even better, you can fly Air Senegal, which has a direct to both DC and NY. This flight shaves off a lot of time, though obviously, not a US carrier. - Sep 2022


Chicago is an 8 or 10 hour flight to Paris, then another 8 or 10 hour flight to Conakry. There are also flights through Casablanca, Lisbon, Brussels, and Istanbul, to name a few. All of them are the same basic setup: transatlantic flight from the US, then another Europe to Africa flight of about the same duration. With layovers and all, travel time can reach beyond 24 hours in some directions, which sounds brutal, but isn't that bad once you're used to it. And I'm doing it with three kids of preschool and grammar school age. It's doable. - Jun 2021


Suburbs of Washington, DC. It's about a six to seven hour flight from Dulles to Brussels or Paris. It's then another eight hours to Conakry (with a stop en route). - Nov 2019


East coast U.S., overnight flight (10 PM to 5 AM) to Paris, then connect on to the U.S. - May 2016


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