The sector is held by Air Cairo, EgyptAir, Euroairlines, Nile Air and Neos.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
CAI Cairo to SSH Sharm El Sheikh
Cairo International, Egypt, to Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 6.9 times a day
- Great circle
- 376 km
- Block, estimated
- 1h 03m
- Door to door
- 7h 48m
What CAI to SSH looks like
The CAI to SSH sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Cairo CAI to Sharm El Sheikh SSH is a short sector of 376 km by great circle, flown nonstop 6.9 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 376 km, 720 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 1h 03m.
Cairo CAI is a large airport in the network held here, 105 scheduled destinations and 311.7 departures a day. Sharm El Sheikh SSH has 62 destinations and 60.9 departures a day.
Cairo carries about 5.1 times the departures of Sharm El Sheikh, 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 Sharm El Sheikh keep the same clock all year, so the arrival time is the departure time plus the block and nothing else.
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 SSH from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| CAI to SSH | 6.86 | 48 | Air Cairo, EgyptAir, Euroairlines, Nile Air |
| SSH to CAI | 6.86 | 48 | Air Cairo, EgyptAir, Neos, Nile Air |
5 carriers are recorded on the sector, so a missed departure is normally a rebooking rather than a lost day.
At 6.9 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 96 departures a week on CAI to SSH, 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 03m block time on CAI to SSH. 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 SSH in the air, estimated | 63 min | 5h 33m |
| Formalities at SSH | 90 min | 7h 03m |
| Delivery run in Sharm El Sheikh | 45 min | 7h 48m |
| Door to door | 468 min | 7h 48m |
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 SSH is 7h 48m.
A courier who leaves Cairo at 09:00 local is on the ground in Sharm El Sheikh at about 10:03 local and at the door by 12:18 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Sharm El Sheikh, the last useful departure from Cairo is around 14:42 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. 26 of them join CAI to SSH.
| Connecting at | CAI to hub, flights a day | Hub to SSH, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amman AMM | 9.43 | 2 | 916 | 3h 21m |
| Jeddah JED | 44.96 | 1.43 | 2,066 | 4h 53m |
| Riyadh RUH | 31.43 | 1.43 | 2,881 | 5h 41m |
| Istanbul SAW | 3.57 | 2.73 | 2,723 | 5h 44m |
| Kuwait City KWI | 10.71 | 1.29 | 2,934 | 5h 45m |
| Istanbul IST | 3.86 | 1.29 | 2,828 | 6h 07m |
With 6.9 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.
26 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Amman AMM, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about twice a day.
Through AMM the routing covers 916 km against the 376 km nonstop track and takes about 3h 21m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 60 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is only 2h 18m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Jeddah JED at 4h 53m and Riyadh RUH at 5h 41m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
The two ends are only 376 km apart in a straight line. Allowing a road track a quarter longer than that and eighty kilometres an hour, a car covers it in about 5h 53m, so a courier who misses the flight drives rather than connects, and on a short deadline the road is often the plan from the start.
If nothing suitable leaves Sharm El Sheikh, Hurghada HRG is 107 km away by great circle and carries 87 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Plan Cairo to Sharm El Sheikh 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 SSH 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 SSH airport entry
- Hand carry into Egypt
- The written lane, Cairo to Athens
- The written lane, Cairo to Sharjah
- The written lane, Sharjah to Cairo
- The route calculator
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