The sector is held by EgyptAir.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
ACC Accra to CAI Cairo
Kotoka International, Ghana, to Cairo International, Egypt. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 4 times a week
- Great circle
- 4,283 km
- Block, estimated
- 5h 40m
- Door to door
- 12h 25m
What ACC to CAI looks like
The ACC to CAI sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Accra ACC to Cairo CAI is a long haul sector of 4,283 km by great circle, flown nonstop 4 times a week.
At the cruise speed this site models for 4,283 km, 880 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 5h 40m.
Accra ACC is a smaller airport in the network held here, 32 scheduled destinations and 67.9 departures a day. Cairo CAI has 105 destinations and 311.7 departures a day.
Cairo carries about 4.6 times the departures of Accra, so a courier who has to be rebooked has far more to work with at one end of this pair than at the other.
Cairo runs 2 hours ahead of Accra in January and 3 hours ahead in July, because the two ends do not change their clocks together.
The pair sits inside Africa, a corridor the written lanes do not cover, which is the reason a computed page for it exists at all.
Who flies the sector, and how often
Average daily frequencies on ACC to CAI from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| ACC to CAI | 0.57 | 4 | EgyptAir |
| CAI to ACC | 0.57 | 4 | EgyptAir |
One carrier holds the sector, EgyptAir, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
Between them the two directions put about 8 departures a week on ACC to CAI, which is the number that decides whether a seat can be found today or on Thursday.
The clock from collection to signature
The same ground timings the route calculator starts from, applied to the 5h 40m block time on ACC to CAI. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to ACC | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At ACC before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| ACC to CAI in the air, estimated | 340 min | 10h 10m |
| Formalities at CAI | 90 min | 11h 40m |
| Delivery run in Cairo | 45 min | 12h 25m |
| Door to door | 745 min | 12h 25m |
On the desk standard ground timings, ninety minutes to collect and reach the airport, three hours at the airport before departure, ninety minutes of arrival formalities and a forty five minute delivery run, the door to door figure for ACC to CAI is 12h 25m.
A courier who leaves Accra at 09:00 local is on the ground in Cairo at about 16:40 local and at the door by 18:55 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Cairo, the last useful departure from Accra is around 08:05 local.
At 12h 25m the mission uses most of a sixteen hour duty day, which leaves no room for a delay before a rest at the far end becomes the honest answer.
When the nonstop does not work
Every airport that joins the two ends, ranked by when they land, among the ones whose weaker leg is dependable enough to plan on. Connection time is allowed for the size of the hub. 18 of them join ACC to CAI.
| Connecting at | ACC to hub, flights a day | Hub to CAI, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abuja ABV | 2.29 | 1 | 4,337 | 7h 17m |
| Lagos LOS | 7.43 | 1.14 | 4,332 | 7h 19m |
| Istanbul IST | 1.43 | 8.71 | 6,158 | 10h 01m |
| Rome FCO | 0.57 | 4.57 | 6,359 | 10h 19m |
| Casablanca CMN | 1.43 | 3.29 | 6,865 | 10h 31m |
| Addis Ababa ADD | 2.43 | 2.14 | 6,786 | 10h 37m |
18 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Abuja ABV, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about once a day.
Through ABV the routing covers 4,337 km against the 4,283 km nonstop track and takes about 7h 17m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 60 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is only 1h 37m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Lagos LOS at 7h 19m and Istanbul IST at 10h 01m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
Plan Accra to Cairo yourself
The same tool the dispatchers use, open to anybody and free. It is loaded with this pair already. Change either end, add a stopover or a preferred airline, and it works out the connection, the transit and the door to door clock, with the real departures underneath. Put it on your own site if it is useful to you.
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Where this came from, and where to look next
- Carriers and frequencies: AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics, retrieved 2026-09-07. Average daily flights, not a timetable.
- Distances: great circle from published coordinates. They read short against a flown track, which is why the block time above applies a factor to them.
- Block and connection times: the same model the route calculator lower down this page runs, at the same rounding.
- Restrictions: the airport notes file, checked 2026-09-07.
- Industrial sites: public company information. Nothing here says or implies that any company named is a customer of any courier operator.
Who publishes this. OnBoard Courier is a placement desk in Dubai. An assignment is carried out by a vetted partner operator, with the desk as the single point of contact from the quote to the signature. This page exists because our own dispatchers need the answer for ACC to CAI in the twenty minutes before a promise is made, and a reference only one operator can read is not a reference. Free to read, quote and cite. Found an error? Tell us and we will correct it.
If you need something moved rather than looked up, the desk prices a hand carry in fifteen minutes.
- The ACC airport entry
- The CAI airport entry
- Hand carry into Ghana
- Hand carry into Egypt
- The written lane, Dubai to Accra
- The written lane, Cairo to Athens
- The written lane, Cairo to Sharjah
- The route calculator
More pairs through ACC and CAI: Accra to Beirut, Accra to Lagos, Accra to Addis Ababa, Accra to Casablanca, Accra to Johannesburg, Accra to Nairobi, Accra to Dar es Salaam, Jeddah to Cairo.