The sector is held by Air Cairo, EgyptAir and ITA Airways.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
CAI Cairo to FCO Rome
Cairo International, Egypt, to Leonardo da Vinci Fiumicino, Italy. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 4.7 times a day
- Great circle
- 2,150 km
- Block, estimated
- 3h 15m
- Door to door
- 10h 00m
What CAI to FCO looks like
The CAI to FCO sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Cairo CAI to Rome FCO is a medium haul sector of 2,150 km by great circle, flown nonstop 4.7 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 2,150 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 3h 15m.
Cairo CAI is a large airport in the network held here, 105 scheduled destinations and 311.7 departures a day. Rome FCO has 232 destinations and 618.2 departures a day.
Rome is one hour behind of Cairo all year.
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 FCO from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| CAI to FCO | 4.71 | 33 | Air Cairo, EgyptAir, ITA Airways |
| FCO to CAI | 4.57 | 32 | EgyptAir, ITA Airways |
3 carriers are recorded on the sector, so a missed departure is normally a rebooking rather than a lost day.
At 4.7 times a day there is usually another departure within a few hours, which is what makes a same day booking on this pair realistic.
Between them the two directions put about 65 departures a week on CAI to FCO, 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 3h 15m block time on CAI to FCO. 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 FCO in the air, estimated | 195 min | 7h 45m |
| Formalities at FCO | 90 min | 9h 15m |
| Delivery run in Rome | 45 min | 10h 00m |
| Door to door | 600 min | 10h 00m |
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 FCO is 10h 00m.
A courier who leaves Cairo at 09:00 local is on the ground in Rome at about 11:15 local and at the door by 13:30 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Rome, the last useful departure from Cairo is around 13:30 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. 63 of them join CAI to FCO.
| Connecting at | CAI to hub, flights a day | Hub to FCO, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Athens ATH | 6.29 | 10.29 | 2,192 | 5h 03m |
| Tunis TUN | 1.71 | 4.43 | 2,674 | 5h 32m |
| Istanbul SAW | 3.57 | 3.43 | 2,638 | 5h 37m |
| Beirut BEY | 6.57 | 0.71 | 2,780 | 5h 40m |
| Amman AMM | 9.43 | 1.14 | 2,854 | 5h 45m |
| Sharm El Sheikh SSH | 6.86 | 1.86 | 2,901 | 5h 46m |
With 4.7 times a day on the nonstop, a connection here is a disruption plan rather than a routing, and it is listed because a closed runway or a cancellation wave is exactly when nobody has time to work it out.
63 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Athens ATH, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 6.3 times a day.
Through ATH the routing covers 2,192 km against the 2,150 km nonstop track and takes about 5h 03m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 75 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, Tunis TUN at 5h 32m and Istanbul SAW at 5h 37m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Rome, Rome CIA is 29 km away by great circle and carries 47 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Plan Cairo to Rome 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 FCO 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 FCO airport entry
- Hand carry into Egypt
- Hand carry into Italy
- 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 FCO: 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.