UAECAI

MS · hub Cairo (CAI) · Star Alliance

Hand carry on EgyptAir

Cairo for Egypt and a practical connection into parts of North and West Africa.

Ask for a routing All airlines we fly

RouteUAE → CAI

Typical flying time3h 20m

Distance≈2,400 km

Typical outcomeSame-Day

One person beats a parcel networkon EgyptAir

The freight chain is not slow because aircraft are slow, it is slow because a consignment waits at every handover. A courier removes the queues, not the kilometres.

OnBoard CourierOne person. One seat. One signature.

CollectedIn the cabin Delivered in on EgyptAir, same day or next morning

Conventional air freightA parcel in a system, every handover is a queue.

Drop-offAcceptance cut-off Build-upFlight Break-downCustoms Delivered, day 3 to 5

0h24h48h72h96h+

When a seat beats a parcel, the full comparison →

Firm quote in 15 minutes

Tell us what has to fly. We answer with a flight and a price.

Five short questions. A dispatcher replies with a named departure, the delivery hour and one fixed price, day and night.

One named courier from collection to signature
Customs cleared in person on arrival
Licensed UAE company, proper VAT invoices

Operational route facts

Last reviewed: August 2026, carrier line-ups and frequencies are indicative and change with seasonal schedules; your quote is priced on the day’s actual flights.

How the flying actually works

Non-stop links into Cairo (CAI) from the Gulf departure bank, the quote names the exact flight and day-of-week validity:

DXBEmirates (multiple daily)

DXBflydubai (daily or better)

SHJAir Arabia (multiple daily)

DOHQatar Airways (multiple daily)

AUHEtihad (daily or better)

DXBEgyptAir (multiple daily)

Alternative gateways nearby

SPXSphinx International, Giza · ≈50 km straight-line · connection gateway

HBEBorg El Arab International, Alexandria · ≈185 km straight-line · own Gulf non-stop service

When the primary airport’s timing loses, a late bank, a curfew, a fog morning, the quote compares these alternates with the true road leg included, and names the winner.

220countries and territories on the desk

500+airports a courier can be booked into

15 minfrom your message to a firm price

24/7the operations centre is awake

Three departure boards, one desk: Emirates, flydubai and Etihad for on EgyptAir

A hand-carry is only as fast as the next departure. The desk watches three boards at once and books the one that lands first, then holds the one that leaves next.

Emirates

The night bank out of Terminal 3

Between one and four in the morning Emirates pushes back a wave of widebodies from Terminal 3 that reach Europe before the first meeting and Asia by the afternoon. For on EgyptAir that wave is the reason a courier confirmed at eight in the evening is still delivering the next day.

Widebody only, non-stop to 140 plus cities

flydubai

The short sectors, several times a day

From Terminal 2 flydubai runs the one to five hour sectors: the Caucasus, Central Asia, East Africa, the Balkans, the subcontinent. Where a widebody leaves once a day, flydubai often leaves three times, which turns a missed slot into a ninety minute delay rather than a lost day.

Frequency is the fallback

Etihad

Abu Dhabi as the second runway

Ninety minutes down the E11, Etihad leaves from Zayed International with its own bank of departures and, for the United States, immigration cleared before boarding. When the Dubai departure for on EgyptAir is gone, the desk looks at Abu Dhabi before it looks at tomorrow.

US preclearance at AUH

The desk holds no allegiance to a carrier. The booking goes to whichever board puts a courier at on EgyptAir first, at a fare the quote can carry.

on EgyptAir: every hour it waits is an hour it is not moving.

Five questions, one fixed price, a named flight. The desk answers within 15 minutes, day and night, and you decide.

Price it now How it works

EgyptAir in the network the desk measures

Computed on 2026-09-07 from AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics. The desk holds departure schedules for 571 airports, and for the MS code that yields 111 city pairs across 95 of them. It is a measured sample of the published timetable and not the whole of it. Frequencies move with the season, and a quote is priced on the flights running the day you ask.

95airports on this carrier

55countries and territories reached

111scheduled city pairs held

357average daily flights across them

The schedule the desk holds carries the MS code on 111 city pairs, reaching 95 airports in 55 countries and territories. Some of those sectors are flown by EgyptAir and some are sold under its code and flown by a partner, which is how the published timetable states it and how a booking has to be read. 35.8 per cent of those airports sit on African time zones, and the next largest block is on European time zones.

The longest sector held for the carrier is Cairo (CAI) to Los Angeles (LAX) at about 12,218 km, and the shortest is Hurghada (HRG) to Sharm el Sheikh (SSH) at about 107 km. 14 of the 111 pairs run past 5,000 km, so the carrier carries a courier across a continent on some sectors and shuttles on the rest. The airport that appears most often on those pairs is Cairo (CAI), on 89 of them, which is 80.2 per cent of everything held under this code.

The thickest sector under the code is Cairo (CAI) to Jeddah (JED) at about 49.4 movements a day, which across a full day is roughly one every 0.5 hours. On a sector at that cadence a missed departure costs a wait rather than a night. 27 of the 111 pairs run four or more times a day and 47 run once a day or less. The second figure is the one that matters when a consignment leaves the factory late, because on those sectors the desk will quote a different carrier rather than promise an hour it cannot hold. After Cairo (CAI) the code leans on Sharm el Sheikh (SSH) on 7, Luxor (LXR) on 5, Jeddah (JED) on 5 pairs respectively, and those are the airports a dispatcher looks at second when the first routing is full.

The sectors that carry the MS code most often

From	To	Country	Flights a day	km	Open it
Cairo CAI	Jeddah JED	Saudi Arabia	49.4	1,217	the pair page
Cairo CAI	Riyadh RUH	Saudi Arabia	31.4	1,612	the pair page
Cairo CAI	Medina MED	Saudi Arabia	16.1	1,027	the pair page
Cairo CAI	Ad Dammam DMM	Saudi Arabia	12.7	1,844	the pair page
Cairo CAI	Kuwait City KWI	Kuwait	10.7	1,602	the pair page
Cairo CAI	Dubai DXB	the United Arab Emirates	10	2,415	the pair page
Amman AMM	Cairo CAI	Egypt	9.6	472	the pair page
Abu Dhabi AUH	Cairo CAI	Egypt	9.3	2,378	the pair page
Cairo CAI	Istanbul IST	Türkiye	8.7	1,263	the pair page
Cairo CAI	Doha DOH	Qatar	8	2,058	the pair page
Cairo CAI	Sharjah SHJ	the United Arab Emirates	8	2,427	plan this
Alexandria HBE	Jeddah JED	Saudi Arabia	7.3	1,393	plan this
Cairo CAI	Sharm el Sheikh SSH	Egypt	6.9	376	the pair page
Beirut BEY	Cairo CAI	Egypt	6.6	563	the pair page
Athens ATH	Cairo CAI	Egypt	6.4	1,107	plan this
Aswan ASW	Cairo CAI	Egypt	6.3	699	plan this

The 16 sectors the MS code appears on most often, out of 111. Flights a day is the average daily scheduled movement on the busier of the two directions, as held on 2026-09-07. The schedule lists a code against a sector whether the carrier operates it or sells it, so read this as where the code can be booked. Distances are great circle, computed from the published coordinates of the two airports.

Where MS meets the UAE gateways

EgyptAir is one of the carriers a courier can board without leaving the Emirates. The desk holds 3 pairs under this code touching Abu Dhabi (AUH), Dubai (DXB), Sharjah (SHJ), so a booking can start at a UAE counter and stay on one ticket to the delivery city.

UAE airport	To	Country	Flights a day	km	Open it
Dubai DXB	Cairo CAI	Egypt	10	2,415	plan this
Abu Dhabi AUH	Cairo CAI	Egypt	9.3	2,378	plan this
Sharjah SHJ	Cairo CAI	Egypt	8	2,427	plan this

Night restrictions on the airports the MS code uses

A hand carry is bought for the hours it saves, and an airport that will not take a movement after a certain hour can spend those hours back. 17 of the 95 airports this code is booked through carry a restriction the desk holds in writing, checked 2026-09-07. Exemptions and seasonal variations exist, and the desk confirms the position with the airport or the carrier before it books.

London (LHR), night restrictions. A night quota system limits movements between 23:30 and 06:00 local. Very few scheduled departures in that window.
Madrid (MAD), night operations. Operates around the clock. Night departures to the Americas are routine.
Brussels (BRU), night restrictions. Night movements between 23:00 and 06:00 local are limited by quota and noise rules.
Paris (CDG), night restrictions. Scheduled movements between midnight and 05:00 local are limited to a fixed annual number of slots.
Shanghai (PVG), night operations. Operates around the clock.
Frankfurt-am-Main (FRA), night restrictions. No scheduled take offs or landings between 23:00 and 05:00 local. A late evening departure that slips past 23:00 does not go until morning.

Published lanes that carry the MS code

The site publishes a page for 346 courier lanes. EgyptAir appears in the schedule on 2 of them, and the one it flies most is Sharjah to Cairo at about 8 movements a day. That overlap is the honest test of whether a carrier is useful to this desk rather than merely famous.

Sharjah to Cairo, about 8 scheduled flights a day on the busier direction, 2,427 km.
Cairo to Athens, about 6.4 scheduled flights a day on the busier direction, 1,107 km.

The countries the MS code opens

Of the 55 countries and territories reached, 40 are reached at a single airport, which for a courier means one airport of entry and a road leg for everything else in that country. The deepest is Egypt with 8 airports on this code. The country desk for Egypt sets out the customs practice, the working hours and the road legs behind these airports.

Egypt (8 airports), Saudi Arabia (7 airports), Italy (6 airports), United States (5 airports), China (4 airports), Germany (4 airports), Libya (3 airports), Nigeria (3 airports), United Arab Emirates (3 airports), India (2 airports).

Where to go next on the MS network

Each of the 95 airports above has its own atlas entry with the full destination list, and each of the 111 sectors can be opened in the calculator with the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour worked out. Start with the atlas entry for Cairo (CAI), the route calculator with Dubai to CAI already filled in, the carrier index for the other 236 airlines the desk lists and the airport atlas itself.

Where EgyptAir fits in an OBC routing

EgyptAir is based in Egypt and operates from Cairo (CAI) as a member of Star Alliance. For us a carrier is not a brand preference, it is a departure time. We book EgyptAir when it has the next seat that gets your consignment there, and we combine it freely with any other airline on the same routing because we hold no alliance membership and no exclusive contract.

Cabin baggage reality

As a full-service carrier the cabin baggage allowance is usually workable for a hand-carry, and a premium cabin adds both allowance and rebooking priority. We still confirm the limit for the specific flight and aircraft type before quoting.

Connections

Where a single EgyptAir sector does not reach the destination, the courier connects, and stays with the consignment on every leg, so it is never handed over in transit.

How we book

An ordinary passenger seat on the open market, in the courier's own name, matching the passport exactly. Premium cabins when the consignment or the schedule justifies it.

Customs is separate

The airline moves the aircraft; the courier declares the goods. Entry rules are per country, not per carrier, see our country guides.

Why frequency matters

A carrier with three rotations a day turns a missed departure into a short wait. That is worth more on a deadline than a marginally faster aircraft.

Independence

No alliance, no exclusivity, no volume commitment. The schedule decides, not a supplier agreement.

Destinations and markets this carrier serves for us

Airline timetables change constantly, so rather than reprint a schedule that will be wrong next month, here is what is useful: the markets where EgyptAir regularly appears in our routings, and the pages that describe those lanes in detail. If you need a specific city on EgyptAir, ask and we will check the live schedule.

Country page: Egypt →Cairo

Markets in Middle East & Africa:

United Arab Emirates Saudi Arabia Qatar Kuwait Oman Bahrain Jordan Lebanon Iraq Israel All countries →

On board courier vs air cargo

Whether the seat is on EgyptAir or any other carrier, this is what a courier changes compared with the hold of the same aircraft.

✓ On board courier

A person in a seat

Leaves on the next available flight, often within hours of your call, 24/7.
One named courier holds the consignment from collection to signature.
Travels in the aircraft cabin wherever the airline, cargo classification and security rules permit it; the transport configuration is confirmed before booking.
No warehouse, no consolidation window, no overnight sort.
Customs cleared in person, questions answered at the counter, immediately.
Same-day delivery is realistic on most sectors out of the UAE.
Built for high-value, fragile, temperature-critical goods and originals.
Proof of delivery with signature, ID check and a photograph within minutes.
A human being you can call at any point of the journey.

✕ Air cargo & express freight

A parcel in a system

Waits for the next consolidation and space allocation, not for you.
Passes through many hands: hub, build-up, ramp, break-down, delivery agent.
Rides in the hold, frequently sitting in a warehouse overnight.
Each handover is a queue, and each queue is where hours disappear.
Cleared in a batch by a broker; one query can idle the shipment for a day.
Next day at best on most lanes, two to three days if it is held.
Chain of custody is a scan history, not a person with the box.
Signed for by whoever happens to be at the door.
Right answer for heavy, bulky or non-urgent freight, and we will say so.

To be straight about it: air cargo is not a bad service, it is a different one. It moves weight cheaply and it does that extremely well. A hand-carry buys back hours, and it is worth paying for exactly when an hour of delay costs more than a seat on a plane, which is the case far more often than most shippers assume, and far less often than most courier companies claim.

The full comparison, with costs →

Questions about flying EgyptAir

What clients and couriers ask when they see this carrier on an assignment.

01Are you an agent or partner of EgyptAir?

No. OnBoard Courier is an independent courier management company. We buy ordinary passenger seats on the open market and hold no agency, contract or partnership with any airline. Airline names and marks belong to their owners and are used here only to describe the routes these assignments travel on.

02Will my consignment definitely fly EgyptAir?

Only if that is genuinely the fastest option for your deadline. We book whichever carrier departs next with a seat and a cabin allowance that fits.

03How much can a courier carry on EgyptAir?

As a full-service carrier the cabin baggage allowance is usually workable for a hand-carry, and a premium cabin adds both allowance and rebooking priority. We confirm the exact allowance for the specific flight before quoting.

04Can I fly as a courier on EgyptAir?

If you are in our network, yes, couriers fly whichever airline the assignment requires. We book and pay the ticket and pay a fee per completed assignment.

Need a routing that uses EgyptAir?

Send the two ends and the deadline. We will check the live schedule across every carrier and come back with the fastest realistic option.

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Why a courier on EgyptAir rather than a cargo booking

It is worth being precise about what an on board courier is, because the phrase gets used for three different products. It is not a faster parcel service, it is not a premium express label, and it is not a charter. It is a person who buys a seat on a scheduled flight and carries your consignment in the cabin, in their own custody, from the moment they collect it to the moment somebody signs for it.

The economics are less strange than they look. A courier assignment costs roughly what a business-class ticket costs, plus a fee and the ground work at each end. Set against a stopped production line, a grounded aircraft, an expiring clinical sample or a tender that closes at noon, that number stops being the interesting part of the conversation very quickly.

What clients are actually buying is the removal of every handover. In a normal air freight movement a consignment changes hands seven or eight times: shipper, forwarder, handling agent, ramp, aircraft, ramp, break-bulk, broker, delivery agent. Each handover is a queue and each queue is where hours disappear. A courier reduces that number to one, collection, and one more, delivery.

For Cairo specifically, that means the useful conversation is not “how much” but “what exactly is in the box, and when does it have to be in whose hands”. Answer those two and everything else, the routing, the carrier, the airport, the paperwork, the price, follows in under an hour.

How an assignment routed over Cairo runs

From the first message to the delivery signature, a Cairo assignment passes through six stages. None of them are automated away, and none of them involve your consignment sitting in a warehouse overnight.

Minute 0 to 15

You tell us what it is

We need four things before we can say anything useful: what is inside, what it is worth, where exactly it has to be, and by when. Not a category, the actual item. “Electronic component” and “lithium battery pack” are the same box to you and two entirely different answers for a flight to Cairo.

Minute 15 to 45

We screen it and price it

We check three things at once: whether we may lawfully carry it, whether Egypt will let it in without a permit we do not have, and whether it physically fits an aircraft cabin. Only then do you get a fixed price, and the price includes the ticket, the courier fee, transfers and a hotel where an overnight is unavoidable.

Hour 1 to 3

A named courier is assigned and booked

Assignment is not a raffle. The consignment's value, its regulatory profile and the destination decide who is offered it. For Cairo, visa eligibility usually narrows the list faster than availability does, which is exactly why a global courier network is worth having.

Hour 2 to 4

Collection, sealing and documentation

At collection the seal number is recorded, the goods are photographed and the paperwork is checked line by line against what is in the box. A description that does not match the contents is a common reason a hand-carry is held at Cairo (CAI), and it is entirely preventable.

In flight

The consignment stays in the cabin

Once airborne, the job is simply not to let go. The consignment stays in the cabin for every sector; where the routing to Cairo connects, the courier remains airside with it rather than clearing and re-entering.

On arrival

Customs, then a signature

The courier declares the goods through the red channel at Cairo (CAI), answers questions in person and, where the category or the value warrants it, meets a customs broker we have already briefed. The handover is against signature, printed name and an identification reference, timestamped and with photographs where you have asked for them.

The paperwork that decides how fast Cairo goes

Nothing delays a hand-carry as reliably as a document that says something different from the box. This is what we prepare with you before the courier leaves, and why each piece matters at Cairo (CAI).

Legalisation and attestation

Documents that must be legalised, apostilled or attested to be valid in Egypt are checked before the courier collects them. A perfectly delivered document that lacks the right stamp has not solved anybody's problem.

ATA Carnet and temporary admission

Where goods enter Egypt temporarily and leave again, demonstration equipment, exhibition pieces, professional gear, a carnet avoids duty entirely and gives the courier a document the officer recognises immediately. It has to be issued before departure; there is no retrospective version.

Tariff classification

The HS code decides the duty, the permits and sometimes whether the goods may enter Egypt at all. We would rather agree the classification with you before departure than watch an officer choose one for us, because the officer's choice is the one that stands.

Duty, tax and who pays it

Import duty and VAT or GST in Egypt are the consignee's cost unless you have agreed otherwise in writing, and the terms should be settled before departure. It is a small conversation before the flight and an expensive one after it.

Temperature and dangerous goods

Dry ice quantities, lithium battery watt-hours, biological substance classification and packing group all have hard limits for a passenger cabin. Some consignments to Egypt can travel exactly as they are; some need repacking; some cannot fly with a passenger at all, and we say so rather than finding out at security.

Commercial invoice

The document customs actually reads. It needs a plain description of the goods, the real value, the currency, the terms of sale and the full names and addresses of both parties. “Samples, no commercial value” is not a customs value and it is the fastest way to turn a twenty-minute clearance at Cairo (CAI) into an afternoon.

What a Cairo courier actually costs, and why

We do not publish a price list, because a fixed table would be a lie: the same box on the same route costs differently at four hours' notice than at two days'. What we can do is be exact about which levers move the number, so nothing in the quote is a surprise.

How much notice you give us

A seat bought four hours before departure costs what a seat bought four hours before departure costs. Nothing about that is a courier margin, it is simply the airline's pricing curve, and it is the single largest variable in a Cairo quote.

Size, weight and whether it fits a locker

Anything beyond normal cabin baggage means a second seat, and occasionally two. An extra seat sounds dramatic until you compare it with a charter: it is an order of magnitude cheaper and it moves at the speed of a scheduled flight.

Declared value and insurance

All-risk cover is priced on the declared value of the goods, and it is the number that matters, airline liability under the Montreal Convention is a fraction of what most courier consignments are worth. Understating the value to save a little on cover is a false economy the first time anything goes wrong.

Regulatory profile of the goods

Batteries, biological material, temperature-controlled consignments and anything export-controlled require preparation, sometimes a permit and occasionally a specialist packer. That work is real and it appears in the quote rather than as a surprise at the airport.

The ground legs at both ends

Collection in the Emirates and delivery beyond Cairo (CAI) are part of the job, not an extra. Where the delivery address is a long drive from the airport, or a second domestic sector is needed, we price it in from the start instead of stopping at arrivals.

Whether the courier returns immediately

A same-day turnaround, an overnight with a hotel, or a courier who continues to a third country all cost differently. On a Cairo routing the flight schedule usually decides this rather than anybody's preference.

Every quote we send is fixed before departure and contains the flight, the courier's fee, transfers and, where an overnight cannot be avoided, the hotel. The things that can change it afterwards are the things you control: a change of destination, a change of goods, or a delay at your end that costs the booked flight. Duty and tax in Egypt sit with the consignee unless we have agreed otherwise in writing.

Dubai skyline at dusk — The race for excellence has no finish line.
Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum

What can go wrong on a Cairo assignment, and what we do about it

Every operator has these problems. The difference is whether the answer was decided in advance or invented at the counter. This is our answer to each of them, written down before you need it.

The goods turn out to be regulated

Found before departure, this is a repack or a permit. Found at security, it is a lost flight and sometimes a confiscation. It is the reason we ask uncomfortable questions about contents at the very beginning instead of taking a booking politely.

Customs asks a question

A person can answer it. That single fact is most of the difference between a hand-carry and a cargo booking: a query at Cairo (CAI) that would idle a shipment for a day gets resolved at the counter in minutes because the person who knows what is in the box is standing there.

Something needs to continue past Cairo

A second sector, a border crossing or a domestic flight beyond Cairo (CAI) is planned as part of the assignment, not handed to a third party on arrival. The chain of custody either holds to the signature or it is not a chain of custody.

The courier is refused boarding

Almost always a document problem: a passport too close to expiry, a missing transit visa, a name on the ticket that does not match the passport. Every one of those is checked at assignment, and it is checked again before the courier leaves for the airport.

The declared value is challenged

It happens, and it is survivable when the invoice is realistic and consistent with the goods. It is not survivable when someone wrote a convenient number. We check this before departure precisely because there is no way to fix it afterwards.

The flight is cancelled

Not a crisis, a routine. Before the courier leaves for the airport we already know the next two departures that could carry the consignment to Cairo, on any carrier, from any of the seven UAE airports. Rebooking is a phone call, not a rescue operation.

How jobs like this actually run

Illustrative cases, patterns from daily OBC work, details generalised for client confidentiality.

EnergyDOH → IAH

A turbine control card for a plant running on reduced load.

Handover Doha07:10

Non-stop08:55

Site gate Houston17:30

✓ Unit back to full output the same night.

Med-techICN → DXB

A surgical navigation unit needed before a scheduled theatre slot.

Factory dock15:30

Overnight non-stop23:55

Hospital loading bay05:40 +1

✓ In the theatre before the first case.

LegalDXB → SIN

Signed originals for a company closing that could not wait for a courier network.

Collected DIFC17:40

Non-stop overnight20:50

At the notary09:15 +1

✓ Closing held on schedule.

Times are typical for these lanes; every job gets its own named flight and timeline before you confirm.

How it moves

Through customs with the paperwork ready

Carnet, invoices, permits, prepared before the courier lands, presented in person.

Join the OBC network, become an on board courier

Every route on this site runs because somebody was willing to get on the plane with it. We are recruiting vetted couriers worldwide: we book and pay the flight, cover transfers and a hotel where an overnight is needed, and pay a fee for every completed assignment, stated in the offer before you accept it. You decide when you are available.

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Assignments worldwide
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Estimate your price, live, before you talk to anyone

An indicative calculation on the OBC-One pattern: airline seat, courier duty, hotel where the routing needs one, transfers and handling. Pick any of the airports we serve, adjust the settings, the breakdown updates as you go. Nothing here is a binding price; the airline fare on the day decides the final number.

Departure hub

Destination airport

What is travelling? Weight: 5 kg More than 23 kg, second courier Service

How urgent?

Indicative total ,

Happy with the estimate? Send it, done.

This sends exactly what you configured above, nothing to retype, no commitment. Indicative figures only; a person confirms the real fare and timing.

Aircraft wing above the clouds — Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah, three departure boards, one operations desk watching them all.
OnBoard Courier, UAE

Get a quote for this route

Tell us what has to move and where it has to be. You get a fixed price and a departure time back, usually within 15 minutes, day or night.

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Origin airport

Destination airport

Shipment type

Ready date & time

Who is booking

Company

What does the company do?

Your name

Phone

Email address

What is in the consignment?

Request received. We reply by email from bookings [at] onboardcourier [dot] ae, usually within 15 minutes.

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I need to send something

Book hand-carry delivery from the UAE to anywhere in the world, and follow it in real time. Same-day departure available.

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We pay the ticket and a fee per completed assignment. You choose when you are available.

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Where to go from here

Hand carry on EgyptAir is one chapter of a larger network. OnBoard Courier moves time-critical consignments with vetted on-board couriers departing 24/7 from all seven UAE airports to 584 destinations across 219 countries. Choose the service that fits, classic hand-carry, AOG for grounded aircraft, medical and pharma, next flight out or high-value goods, then check entry requirements and customs by country and how an assignment actually runs, minute by minute.

Prefer to compare first? Read when a seat beats a parcel network, browse the industries we move for or scan the airlines the couriers the desk places fly with. If you travel often yourself, flying as an OnBoard Courier pays per completed assignment. For anything urgent, the fastest route is the quote form above, answered by a person, day or night.

One person beats a parcel networkon EgyptAir

Tell us what has to fly. We answer with a flight and a price.

Operational route facts

How the flying actually works

Alternative gateways nearby

Three departure boards, one desk: Emirates, flydubai and Etihad for on EgyptAir

The night bank out of Terminal 3

The short sectors, several times a day

Abu Dhabi as the second runway

on EgyptAir: every hour it waits is an hour it is not moving.

EgyptAir in the network the desk measures

The sectors that carry the MS code most often

Where MS meets the UAE gateways

Night restrictions on the airports the MS code uses

Published lanes that carry the MS code

The countries the MS code opens

Where to go next on the MS network

Where EgyptAir fits in an OBC routing

Cabin baggage reality

Connections

How we book

Customs is separate

Why frequency matters

Independence

Destinations and markets this carrier serves for us

On board courier vs air cargo

✓ On board courier

✕ Air cargo & express freight

Questions about flying EgyptAir

01Are you an agent or partner of EgyptAir?

02Will my consignment definitely fly EgyptAir?

03How much can a courier carry on EgyptAir?

04Can I fly as a courier on EgyptAir?

Need a routing that uses EgyptAir?

Why a courier on EgyptAir rather than a cargo booking

How an assignment routed over Cairo runs

You tell us what it is

We screen it and price it

A named courier is assigned and booked

Collection, sealing and documentation

The consignment stays in the cabin

Customs, then a signature

The paperwork that decides how fast Cairo goes

Legalisation and attestation

ATA Carnet and temporary admission

Tariff classification

Duty, tax and who pays it

Temperature and dangerous goods

Commercial invoice

What a Cairo courier actually costs, and why

How much notice you give us

Size, weight and whether it fits a locker

Declared value and insurance

Regulatory profile of the goods

The ground legs at both ends

Whether the courier returns immediately

What can go wrong on a Cairo assignment, and what we do about it

The goods turn out to be regulated

Customs asks a question

Something needs to continue past Cairo

The courier is refused boarding

The declared value is challenged

The flight is cancelled

More questions about carrying a consignment on EgyptAir

01Does the consignment ever go into the hold?

02How quickly can a courier leave for Cairo?

03Can a courier carry more than one consignment?

04What do you need from me to start?

05Are you an airline?

06Can I speak to a person during the journey?

07Do you handle customs at Cairo (CAI)?

08What cannot travel with a courier?

How jobs like this actually run

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