The sector is held by EgyptAir.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
CAI Cairo to LCA Larnaca
Cairo International, Egypt, to Larnaca International, Cyprus. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About once a day
- Great circle
- 568 km
- Block, estimated
- 1h 20m
- Door to door
- 8h 05m
What CAI to LCA looks like
The CAI to LCA sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Cairo CAI to Larnaca LCA is a short sector of 568 km by great circle, flown nonstop about once a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 568 km, 720 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 1h 20m.
Cairo CAI is a large airport in the network held here, 105 scheduled destinations and 311.7 departures a day. Larnaca LCA has 86 destinations and 120 departures a day.
Cairo carries about 2.6 times the departures of Larnaca, so a courier who has to be rebooked has far more to work with at one end of this pair than at the other.
Cairo and Larnaca 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 LCA from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| CAI to LCA | 1.14 | 8 | EgyptAir |
| LCA 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 LCA, 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 1h 20m block time on CAI to LCA. 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 LCA in the air, estimated | 80 min | 5h 50m |
| Formalities at LCA | 90 min | 7h 20m |
| Delivery run in Larnaca | 45 min | 8h 05m |
| Door to door | 485 min | 8h 05m |
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 LCA is 8h 05m.
A courier who leaves Cairo at 09:00 local is on the ground in Larnaca at about 10:20 local and at the door by 12:35 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Larnaca, the last useful departure from Cairo is around 14:25 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. 32 of them join CAI to LCA.
| Connecting at | CAI to hub, flights a day | Hub to LCA, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beirut BEY | 6.57 | 3.71 | 770 | 3h 08m |
| Amman AMM | 9.43 | 1.14 | 886 | 3h 19m |
| Athens ATH | 6.29 | 18.43 | 2,037 | 4h 51m |
| Bucharest OTP | 0.71 | 2.71 | 2,927 | 5h 59m |
| Manama BAH | 3.43 | 0.57 | 3,815 | 6h 52m |
| Budapest BUD | 0.71 | 1.14 | 4,026 | 7h 24m |
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.
32 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Beirut BEY, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 3.7 times a day.
Through BEY the routing covers 770 km against the 568 km nonstop track and takes about 3h 08m 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, Amman AMM at 3h 19m and Athens ATH at 4h 51m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Larnaca, Paphos PFO is 105 km away by great circle and carries 52 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Plan Cairo to Larnaca 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 LCA 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 LCA airport entry
- Hand carry into Egypt
- Hand carry into Cyprus
- 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 LCA: 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.