SSH Sharm El Sheikh

How deep the SSH board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from SSH. This reads the same 62 destinations back for the questions a dispatcher asks second: how much of the board rests on one airline, how much of it runs less than daily, whether the return leg is as thick as the outbound, what the clock here does to a Gulf working day and which of the destinations shut at night, all of it computed on 2026-09-07 from AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics.

• 35of the 62 destinations are flown by one airline
• 43destinations run less than once a day
• 2destinations have four or more departures a day
• 35.5%of the destinations name Air Cairo, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at SSH

31 airlines appear on the SSH board and they do not hold it evenly. Air Cairo is on 22 of the 62 destinations, 35.5 per cent of them, and on 6 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 32.1 of the 60.9 departures a day this airport files, though other airlines fly some of the same sectors, so read that as reach rather than as a share of the aircraft.

The next largest presence is easyJet on 13 destinations. 17 of the 31 airlines at SSH appear on a single destination each, which is the long tail every airport carries, and none of it is a rebooking option when the sector you need is the one that fell over.

That is a middling concentration at SSH: one airline on 35.5 per cent of the destinations and the other 64.5 per cent spread across 30 airlines. A cancellation inside the Air Cairo network is often survivable inside the same booking, but on the 40 destinations Air Cairo does not touch, a rebooking means moving to a carrier the desk has to check for a through fare first.

How much of the SSH board is daily

Of the 62 destinations, 19 are flown at least once a day and 43 are not, 9 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the SSH board is flown 4 times a week.

An average of 0.14 flights a day is the schedule statistic, and it is worth translating it before anything is promised to anybody: SSH to Volgograd (VOG) is about one a week, so a missed departure there is not a delay of hours, it is the next slot.

The five busiest destinations carry 22.1 of the 60.9 departures a day, 36.2 per cent of the whole board. With 69.4 per cent of the 62 destinations running less than daily, this is a board that rewards booking the outbound before the collection is confirmed rather than after.

Destination	Country	The only airline on it	Flights a week	km	Routing
Aktyuinsk AKX	Kazakhstan	Air Cairo	1	3,137	plan this
Constantine CZL	Algeria	Air Algerie	1	2,762	plan this
Eindhoven EIN	the Netherlands	TUI Airlines Nederland (Netherlands)	1	3,557	plan this
Lyon LYS	France	easyJet	1	3,239	plan this
Mineralnyye Vody MRV	Russia	Nesma Airlines	1	1,965	plan this
Oran ORN	Algeria	Air Algerie	1	3,397	plan this
Paris CDG	France	easyJet	1	3,581	plan this
Tyumen TJM	Russia	Nesma Airlines	1	4,049	plan this
Volgograd VOG	Russia	Air Cairo	1	2,466	plan this
Ankara ESB	Turkiye	Pegasus	2	1,357	plan this

The ten destinations out of SSH where one airline holds the sector and files fewer than seven departures a week, with the weekly figure taken as the average daily rate multiplied by seven rather than as a fixed timetable. 23 further destinations sit in the same position and are listed in the board above.

The way back from SSH

The desk holds the return direction for 48 of the 62 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On five of them the return into SSH runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gaps are Algiers (ALG) at 1.6 out a day against 0.29 back, Bologna (BLQ) at 0.71 out a day against 0.43 back and Palermo (PMO) at 1.1 out a day against 0.73 back.

It runs the other way as well: Moscow (SVO) files 5.6 a day back into SSH against 4.1 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at SSH

SSH keeps Africa/Cairo time, an hour behind Dubai in summer and two hours behind in winter, because the clock here moves and the Gulf clock does not.

When it is 09:00 on a Dubai working morning it is 08:00 at SSH, so a nine to six day at each end overlaps for eight hours. That is wide enough to settle a customs question at SSH and still make a departure the same day.

The night at SSH

6 of the destinations from here carry a documented night restriction of their own, which is a departure time question at this end rather than an arrival problem at the other.

Into London (LGW) the door shuts at 23:30 local, so the last departure from SSH that lands inside it leaves around 20:21, on a modelled block of 5h 09m. Into Düsseldorf (DUS) the door shuts at 22:00 local, so the last departure from SSH that lands inside it leaves around 18:19, on a modelled block of 4h 41m. Into Berlin (BER) the door shuts at 22:00 local, so the last departure from SSH that lands inside it leaves around 18:38, on a modelled block of 4h 22m. Those three departure times out of SSH are worked backwards from the published window with the block time model this site uses everywhere, 720 to 880 km an hour by sector length with thirty minutes on the ground, so they are arithmetic rather than a timetable and the desk checks the published departure before it promises the landing.

Where SSH turns up on the rest of this site

The airport also sits behind the Egypt country desk, which sets out the customs practice, the working week and the road legs behind this airport.

The site publishes 4 airport pair pages that start or end at SSH, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are Sharm El Sheikh to Cairo (CAI), Sharm El Sheikh to Amman (AMM) and Sharm El Sheikh to Kuwait City (KWI).

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with SSH already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 62 destinations above.