The sector is held by EgyptAir.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
CAI Cairo to DEL Delhi
Cairo International, Egypt, to Indira Gandhi International, India. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 5 times a week
- Great circle
- 4,403 km
- Block, estimated
- 5h 48m
- Door to door
- 12h 33m
What CAI to DEL looks like
The CAI to DEL sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Cairo CAI to Delhi DEL is a long haul sector of 4,403 km by great circle, flown nonstop 5 times a week.
At the cruise speed this site models for 4,403 km, 880 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 5h 48m.
Cairo CAI is a large airport in the network held here, 105 scheduled destinations and 311.7 departures a day. Delhi DEL has 133 destinations and 607.8 departures a day.
Delhi runs 3.5 hours ahead of Cairo in January and 2.5 hours ahead in July, because the two ends do not change their clocks together.
The pair sits between Africa and Asia Pacific, a corridor where the site already publishes 1 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 DEL from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| CAI to DEL | 0.71 | 5 | EgyptAir |
| DEL to CAI | 0.71 | 5 | 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 9.9 departures a week on CAI to DEL, 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 48m block time on CAI to DEL. 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 DEL in the air, estimated | 348 min | 10h 18m |
| Formalities at DEL | 90 min | 11h 48m |
| Delivery run in Delhi | 45 min | 12h 33m |
| Door to door | 753 min | 12h 33m |
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 DEL is 12h 33m.
A courier who leaves Cairo at 09:00 local is on the ground in Delhi at about 18:18 local and at the door by 20:33 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Delhi, the last useful departure from Cairo is around 06:27 local.
At 12h 33m 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. 35 of them join CAI to DEL.
| Connecting at | CAI to hub, flights a day | Hub to DEL, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kuwait City KWI | 10.71 | 2.86 | 4,432 | 7h 40m |
| Riyadh RUH | 31.43 | 3.43 | 4,649 | 7h 43m |
| Dammam DMM | 12.72 | 1.72 | 4,541 | 7h 48m |
| Manama BAH | 3.43 | 2.29 | 4,550 | 7h 49m |
| Sharjah SHJ | 7.71 | 3.86 | 4,594 | 7h 52m |
| Muscat MCT | 3.29 | 3.15 | 4,713 | 8h 01m |
35 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Kuwait City KWI, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about twice a day.
Through KWI the routing covers 4,432 km against the 4,403 km nonstop track and takes about 7h 40m 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 52m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Riyadh RUH at 7h 43m and Dammam DMM at 7h 48m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
Plan Cairo to Delhi 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 DEL 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 DEL airport entry
- Hand carry into Egypt
- Hand carry into India
- 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 DEL: 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.