The sector is held by EgyptAir.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
CAI Cairo to CGK Jakarta
Cairo International, Egypt, to Soekarno Hatta International, Indonesia. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 2 times a week
- Great circle
- 8,949 km
- Block, estimated
- 11h 17m
- Door to door
- 18h 02m
What CAI to CGK looks like
The CAI to CGK sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Cairo CAI to Jakarta CGK is an ultra long sector of 8,949 km by great circle, flown nonstop 2 times a week.
At the cruise speed this site models for 8,949 km, 880 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 11h 17m.
Cairo CAI is a large airport in the network held here, 105 scheduled destinations and 311.7 departures a day. Jakarta CGK has 89 destinations and 467.9 departures a day.
Jakarta runs 5 hours ahead of Cairo in January and 4 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 CGK from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| CAI to CGK | 0.29 | 2 | EgyptAir |
| CGK to CAI | 0.29 | 2 | EgyptAir |
One carrier holds the sector, EgyptAir, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
At 2 times a week the nonstop is thin enough that a consignment which misses it waits days rather than hours, which is the case for reading the routings below before promising anything.
Between them the two directions put about 4.1 departures a week on CAI to CGK, 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 11h 17m block time on CAI to CGK. 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 CGK in the air, estimated | 677 min | 15h 47m |
| Formalities at CGK | 90 min | 17h 17m |
| Delivery run in Jakarta | 45 min | 18h 02m |
| Door to door | 1,082 min | 18h 02m |
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 CGK is 18h 02m.
A courier who leaves Cairo at 09:00 local is on the ground in Jakarta at about 01:17 local and at the door by 03:32 the following day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Jakarta, nothing leaving Cairo inside a normal working day arrives in time, so this pair is an overnight and a next morning delivery rather than a same day one.
At 18h 02m the mission is past the sixteen hour duty day a single courier is planned against, so it is quoted with a rest at the far end or with a second courier, and never as a turnaround.
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. 15 of them join CAI to CGK.
| Connecting at | CAI to hub, flights a day | Hub to CGK, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Medina MED | 15.86 | 1.14 | 9,028 | 12h 57m |
| Muscat MCT | 3.29 | 1 | 8,957 | 12h 59m |
| Mumbai BOM | 0.57 | 0.71 | 8,984 | 13h 05m |
| Doha DOH | 7.86 | 2.86 | 8,952 | 13h 11m |
| Abu Dhabi AUH | 9.33 | 1.29 | 8,953 | 13h 12m |
| Jeddah JED | 44.96 | 6.14 | 9,188 | 13h 24m |
15 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Medina MED, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about once a day.
Through MED the routing covers 9,028 km against the 8,949 km nonstop track and takes about 12h 57m 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 40m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Muscat MCT at 12h 59m and Mumbai BOM at 13h 05m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
Plan Cairo to Jakarta 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 CGK 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 CGK airport entry
- Hand carry into Egypt
- Hand carry into Indonesia
- 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 CGK: 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.