The sector is held by TAROM.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
CAI Cairo to OTP Bucharest
Cairo International, Egypt, to Henri Coanda Otopeni, Romania. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 5 times a week
- Great circle
- 1,673 km
- Block, estimated
- 2h 38m
- Door to door
- 9h 23m
What CAI to OTP looks like
The CAI to OTP sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Cairo CAI to Bucharest OTP is a medium haul sector of 1,673 km by great circle, flown nonstop 5 times a week.
At the cruise speed this site models for 1,673 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 2h 38m.
Cairo CAI is a large airport in the network held here, 105 scheduled destinations and 311.7 departures a day. Bucharest OTP has 153 destinations and 247.4 departures a day.
Cairo and Bucharest 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 Europe, a corridor where the site already publishes 8 written lanes that go into customs and ground detail this page does not.
Who flies the sector, and how often
Average daily frequencies on CAI to OTP from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| CAI to OTP | 0.71 | 5 | TAROM |
| OTP to CAI | 0.71 | 5 | TAROM |
One carrier holds the sector, TAROM, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
Between them the two directions put about 9.9 departures a week on CAI to OTP, 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 2h 38m block time on CAI to OTP. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to CAI | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At CAI before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| CAI to OTP in the air, estimated | 158 min | 7h 08m |
| Formalities at OTP | 90 min | 8h 38m |
| Delivery run in Bucharest | 45 min | 9h 23m |
| Door to door | 563 min | 9h 23m |
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 CAI to OTP is 9h 23m.
A courier who leaves Cairo at 09:00 local is on the ground in Bucharest at about 11:38 local and at the door by 13:53 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Bucharest, the last useful departure from Cairo is around 13:07 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. 40 of them join CAI to OTP.
| Connecting at | CAI to hub, flights a day | Hub to OTP, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Larnaca LCA | 1.14 | 1.86 | 1,822 | 4h 26m |
| Istanbul SAW | 3.57 | 0.86 | 1,698 | 4h 31m |
| Beirut BEY | 6.57 | 0.86 | 2,004 | 4h 40m |
| Istanbul IST | 3.86 | 5.01 | 1,688 | 4h 45m |
| Athens ATH | 6.29 | 4.57 | 1,867 | 4h 47m |
| Budapest BUD | 0.71 | 1.57 | 2,806 | 5h 58m |
40 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Larnaca LCA, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about once a day.
Through LCA the routing covers 1,822 km against the 1,673 km nonstop track and takes about 4h 26m 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 48m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Istanbul SAW at 4h 31m and Beirut BEY at 4h 40m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Bucharest, Varna VAR is 203 km away by great circle and carries 45 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Plan Cairo to Bucharest 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 CAI to OTP 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 CAI airport entry
- The OTP airport entry
- Hand carry into Egypt
- Hand carry into Romania
- The written lane, Cairo to Athens
- The written lane, Cairo to Sharjah
- The written lane, Sharjah to Cairo
- The route calculator
More pairs through CAI and OTP: Jeddah to Cairo, Cairo to Dubai, Cairo to Riyadh, Cairo to Abu Dhabi, Frankfurt to Cairo, Cairo to Milan, Cairo to Doha, Istanbul to Cairo.