The sector is held by EgyptAir.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
CAI Cairo to LOS Lagos
Cairo International, Egypt, to Murtala Muhammed, Nigeria. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About once a day
- Great circle
- 3,931 km
- Block, estimated
- 5h 14m
- Door to door
- 11h 59m
What CAI to LOS looks like
The CAI to LOS sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Cairo CAI to Lagos LOS is a long haul sector of 3,931 km by great circle, flown nonstop about once a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 3,931 km, 880 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 5h 14m.
Cairo CAI is a large airport in the network held here, 105 scheduled destinations and 311.7 departures a day. Lagos LOS has 40 destinations and 104.5 departures a day.
Cairo carries about 3 times the departures of Lagos, so a courier who has to be rebooked has far more to work with at one end of this pair than at the other.
Lagos runs one hour behind of Cairo in January and 2 hours behind 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 LOS from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| CAI to LOS | 1.14 | 8 | EgyptAir |
| LOS to CAI | 1.14 | 8 | 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 16 departures a week on CAI to LOS, 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 14m block time on CAI to LOS. 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 LOS in the air, estimated | 314 min | 9h 44m |
| Formalities at LOS | 90 min | 11h 14m |
| Delivery run in Lagos | 45 min | 11h 59m |
| Door to door | 719 min | 11h 59m |
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 LOS is 11h 59m.
A courier who leaves Cairo at 09:00 local is on the ground in Lagos at about 13:14 local and at the door by 15:29 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Lagos, the last useful departure from Cairo is around 11:31 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. 20 of them join CAI to LOS.
| Connecting at | CAI to hub, flights a day | Hub to LOS, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kano KAN | 0.71 | 4 | 3,932 | 6h 48m |
| Abuja ABV | 1 | 26.14 | 3,946 | 6h 53m |
| Accra ACC | 0.57 | 7.43 | 4,684 | 7h 45m |
| Istanbul IST | 3.86 | 1 | 5,869 | 9h 40m |
| Addis Ababa ADD | 2.14 | 2.14 | 6,390 | 10h 08m |
| Casablanca CMN | 3.57 | 2.14 | 6,868 | 10h 31m |
One nonstop a day means one chance a day, so the connections below are what a consignment that arrives at CAI in the afternoon actually flies on.
20 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Kano KAN, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 5 times a week.
Through KAN the routing covers 3,932 km against the 3,931 km nonstop track and takes about 6h 48m 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 34m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Abuja ABV at 6h 53m and Accra ACC at 7h 45m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
Plan Cairo to Lagos 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 LOS 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 LOS airport entry
- Hand carry into Egypt
- Hand carry into Nigeria
- 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 LOS: 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.