The sector is held by EgyptAir and Middle East Airlines.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
BEY Beirut to CAI Cairo
Rafic Hariri International, Lebanon, to Cairo International, Egypt. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 6.6 times a day
- Great circle
- 563 km
- Block, estimated
- 1h 20m
- Door to door
- 8h 05m
What BEY to CAI looks like
The BEY to CAI sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Beirut BEY to Cairo CAI is a short sector of 563 km by great circle, flown nonstop 6.6 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 563 km, 720 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 1h 20m.
Beirut BEY is a mid sized airport in the network held here, 45 scheduled destinations and 86.9 departures a day. Cairo CAI has 105 destinations and 311.7 departures a day.
Cairo carries about 3.6 times the departures of Beirut, so a courier who has to be rebooked has far more to work with at one end of this pair than at the other.
Beirut and Cairo keep the same clock all year, so the arrival time is the departure time plus the block and nothing else.
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 BEY to CAI from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| BEY to CAI | 6.57 | 46 | EgyptAir, Middle East Airlines |
| CAI to BEY | 6.57 | 46 | EgyptAir, Middle East Airlines |
Two carriers hold the sector, EgyptAir and Middle East Airlines, which gives a missed departure somewhere to go without leaving the nonstop.
At 6.6 times a day there is usually another departure within a few hours, which is what makes a same day booking on this pair realistic.
Between them the two directions put about 92 departures a week on BEY 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 1h 20m block time on BEY 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 BEY | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At BEY before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| BEY to CAI in the air, estimated | 80 min | 5h 50m |
| Formalities at CAI | 90 min | 7h 20m |
| Delivery run in Cairo | 45 min | 8h 05m |
| Door to door | 485 min | 8h 05m |
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 BEY to CAI is 8h 05m.
A courier who leaves Beirut at 09:00 local is on the ground in Cairo at about 10:20 local and at the door by 12:35 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Cairo, the last useful departure from Beirut is around 14:25 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. 36 of them join BEY to CAI.
| Connecting at | BEY to hub, flights a day | Hub to CAI, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amman AMM | 6.57 | 9.57 | 710 | 3h 03m |
| Larnaca LCA | 3.71 | 1.14 | 775 | 3h 08m |
| Baghdad BGW | 3.57 | 1.29 | 2,075 | 4h 39m |
| Erbil EBL | 0.57 | 0.57 | 2,167 | 4h 46m |
| Istanbul SAW | 5.57 | 3.43 | 2,170 | 5h 01m |
| Athens ATH | 2.86 | 6.43 | 2,242 | 5h 07m |
With 6.6 times a day on the nonstop, a connection here is a disruption plan rather than a routing, and it is listed because a closed runway or a cancellation wave is exactly when nobody has time to work it out.
36 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Amman AMM, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 6.6 times a day.
Through AMM the routing covers 710 km against the 563 km nonstop track and takes about 3h 03m 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 43m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Larnaca LCA at 3h 08m and Baghdad BGW at 4h 39m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Beirut, Larnaca LCA is 207 km away by great circle and carries 86 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Plan Beirut 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 BEY 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 BEY airport entry
- The CAI airport entry
- Hand carry into Lebanon
- Hand carry into Egypt
- The written lane, Sharjah to Beirut
- The written lane, Cairo to Athens
- The written lane, Cairo to Sharjah
- The route calculator
More pairs through BEY and CAI: Paris to Beirut, Istanbul to Beirut, Berlin to Beirut, Dusseldorf to Beirut, Frankfurt to Beirut, Beirut to Dubai, Brussels to Beirut, Athens to Beirut.