The sector is held by EgyptAir.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
CAI Cairo to DAR Dar es Salaam
Cairo International, Egypt, to Julius Nyerere International, Tanzania. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 3 times a week
- Great circle
- 4,198 km
- Block, estimated
- 5h 33m
- Door to door
- 12h 18m
What CAI to DAR looks like
The CAI to DAR sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Cairo CAI to Dar es Salaam DAR is a long haul sector of 4,198 km by great circle, flown nonstop 3 times a week.
At the cruise speed this site models for 4,198 km, 880 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 5h 33m.
Cairo CAI is a large airport in the network held here, 105 scheduled destinations and 311.7 departures a day. Dar es Salaam DAR has 37 destinations and 80 departures a day.
Cairo carries about 3.9 times the departures of Dar es Salaam, so a courier who has to be rebooked has far more to work with at one end of this pair than at the other.
Dar es Salaam runs one hour ahead of Cairo in January and no time shift at all 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 CAI to DAR from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| CAI to DAR | 0.43 | 3 | EgyptAir |
| DAR to CAI | 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 7 departures a week on CAI to DAR, 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 33m block time on CAI to DAR. 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 DAR in the air, estimated | 333 min | 10h 03m |
| Formalities at DAR | 90 min | 11h 33m |
| Delivery run in Dar es Salaam | 45 min | 12h 18m |
| Door to door | 738 min | 12h 18m |
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 DAR is 12h 18m.
A courier who leaves Cairo at 09:00 local is on the ground in Dar es Salaam at about 15:33 local and at the door by 17:48 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Dar es Salaam, the last useful departure from Cairo is around 09:12 local.
At 12h 18m 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. 14 of them join CAI to DAR.
| Connecting at | CAI to hub, flights a day | Hub to DAR, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nairobi NBO | 1.29 | 7.14 | 4,213 | 7h 15m |
| Addis Ababa ADD | 2.14 | 3.43 | 4,238 | 7h 40m |
| Doha DOH | 7.86 | 1.14 | 5,877 | 9h 29m |
| Dubai DXB | 10 | 1.71 | 6,393 | 10h 23m |
| Istanbul IST | 3.86 | 1.14 | 6,722 | 10h 42m |
| Johannesburg JNB | 0.71 | 0.79 | 8,701 | 12h 40m |
14 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Nairobi NBO, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about once a day.
Through NBO the routing covers 4,213 km against the 4,198 km nonstop track and takes about 7h 15m 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 42m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Addis Ababa ADD at 7h 40m and Doha DOH at 9h 29m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Dar es Salaam, Zanzibar ZNZ is 73 km away by great circle and carries 27 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Plan Cairo to Dar es Salaam 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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Restrictions
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 DAR 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 DAR airport entry
- Hand carry into Egypt
- Hand carry into Tanzania
- 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 DAR: 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.