The sector is held by Fly Jordan, Jordan Aviation Airlines and Royal Jordanian.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
AMM Amman to SSH Sharm El Sheikh
Queen Alia International, Jordan, to Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About twice a day
- Great circle
- 444 km
- Block, estimated
- 1h 09m
- Door to door
- 7h 54m
What AMM to SSH looks like
The AMM to SSH sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Amman AMM to Sharm El Sheikh SSH is a short sector of 444 km by great circle, flown nonstop about twice a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 444 km, 720 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 1h 09m.
Amman AMM is a mid sized airport in the network held here, 72 scheduled destinations and 131.4 departures a day. Sharm El Sheikh SSH has 62 destinations and 60.9 departures a day.
Sharm El Sheikh runs one hour behind of Amman in January and no time shift at all in July, because the two ends do not change their clocks together.
The pair sits between Africa and the Middle East, a corridor where the site already publishes 18 written lanes that go into customs and ground detail this page does not.
Who flies the sector, and how often
Average daily frequencies on AMM to SSH from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| AMM to SSH | 2 | 14 | Fly Jordan, Jordan Aviation Airlines |
| SSH to AMM | 2 | 14 | Jordan Aviation Airlines, Royal Jordanian |
3 carriers are recorded on the sector, so a missed departure is normally a rebooking rather than a lost day.
Between them the two directions put about 28 departures a week on AMM to SSH, 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 1h 09m block time on AMM to SSH. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to AMM | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At AMM before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| AMM to SSH in the air, estimated | 69 min | 5h 39m |
| Formalities at SSH | 90 min | 7h 09m |
| Delivery run in Sharm El Sheikh | 45 min | 7h 54m |
| Door to door | 474 min | 7h 54m |
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 AMM to SSH is 7h 54m.
A courier who leaves Amman at 09:00 local is on the ground in Sharm El Sheikh at about 09:09 local and at the door by 11:24 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Sharm El Sheikh, the last useful departure from Amman is around 15:36 local.
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. 24 of them join AMM to SSH.
| Connecting at | AMM to hub, flights a day | Hub to SSH, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cairo CAI | 9.57 | 6.86 | 848 | 3h 30m |
| Jeddah JED | 7.86 | 1.43 | 2,009 | 4h 49m |
| Kuwait City KWI | 2 | 1.29 | 2,512 | 5h 12m |
| Riyadh RUH | 9.29 | 1.43 | 2,558 | 5h 16m |
| Istanbul SAW | 1.14 | 2.73 | 2,692 | 5h 42m |
| Istanbul IST | 6.43 | 1.29 | 2,808 | 6h 05m |
One nonstop a day means one chance a day, so the connections below are what a consignment that arrives at AMM in the afternoon actually flies on.
24 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Cairo CAI, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 6.9 times a day.
Through CAI the routing covers 848 km against the 444 km nonstop track and takes about 3h 30m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 75 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is only 2h 21m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Jeddah JED at 4h 49m and Kuwait City KWI at 5h 12m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
The two ends are only 444 km apart in a straight line. Allowing a road track a quarter longer than that and eighty kilometres an hour, a car covers it in about 6h 56m, so a courier who misses the flight drives rather than connects, and on a short deadline the road is often the plan from the start.
If nothing suitable leaves Amman, Tel Aviv TLV is 109 km away by great circle and carries 110 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
If nothing suitable leaves Sharm El Sheikh, Hurghada HRG is 107 km away by great circle and carries 87 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Plan Amman to Sharm El Sheikh 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 AMM to SSH 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 AMM airport entry
- The SSH airport entry
- Hand carry into Jordan
- Hand carry into Egypt
- The written lane, Amman to Frankfurt
- The written lane, Sharjah to Amman
- The route calculator
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