The sector is held by EgyptAir.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
CAI Cairo to NRT Tokyo
Cairo International, Egypt, to Narita International, Japan. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 3 times a week
- Great circle
- 9,593 km
- Block, estimated
- 12h 03m
- Door to door
- 18h 48m
What CAI to NRT looks like
The CAI to NRT sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Cairo CAI to Tokyo NRT is an ultra long sector of 9,593 km by great circle, flown nonstop 3 times a week.
At the cruise speed this site models for 9,593 km, 880 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 12h 03m.
Cairo CAI is a large airport in the network held here, 105 scheduled destinations and 311.7 departures a day. Tokyo NRT has 117 destinations and 361.5 departures a day.
Tokyo runs 7 hours ahead of Cairo in January and 6 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 NRT from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| CAI to NRT | 0.43 | 3 | EgyptAir |
| NRT to CAI | 0.43 | 3 | 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 6 departures a week on CAI to NRT, 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 12h 03m block time on CAI to NRT. 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 NRT in the air, estimated | 723 min | 16h 33m |
| Formalities at NRT | 90 min | 18h 03m |
| Delivery run in Tokyo | 45 min | 18h 48m |
| Door to door | 1,128 min | 18h 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 NRT is 18h 48m.
A courier who leaves Cairo at 09:00 local is on the ground in Tokyo at about 04:03 local and at the door by 06:18 the following day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Tokyo, 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 48m 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. 21 of them join CAI to NRT.
| Connecting at | CAI to hub, flights a day | Hub to NRT, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beijing PEK | 1.14 | 1.29 | 9,668 | 14h 18m |
| Delhi DEL | 0.71 | 1.16 | 10,312 | 14h 40m |
| Doha DOH | 7.86 | 2.29 | 10,356 | 14h 53m |
| Shanghai PVG | 1.71 | 11.71 | 10,165 | 14h 53m |
| Abu Dhabi AUH | 9.33 | 0.57 | 10,466 | 15h 02m |
| Dubai DXB | 10 | 1.14 | 10,394 | 15h 12m |
21 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Beijing PEK, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about once a day.
Through PEK the routing covers 9,668 km against the 9,593 km nonstop track and takes about 14h 18m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 90 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is only 2h 15m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Delhi DEL at 14h 40m and Doha DOH at 14h 53m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Tokyo, Tokyo HND is 60 km away by great circle and carries 105 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Restricted hours at either end
Widely documented operating restrictions, checked 2026-09-07. Exemptions and seasonal variations exist, so confirm with the carrier before relying on any of them.
Tokyo NRT is shut to scheduled movements between 23:00 and 06:00 local, which matters here because an aircraft leaving Cairo late arrives into a closed airport rather than a quiet one.
Tokyo NRT, night restrictions: Scheduled movements are limited between 23:00 and 06:00 local; late departures usually route through Haneda instead.
Read back down the sector, a departure from Cairo later than about 03:57 local arrives at NRT after it has closed for the night, on the 12h 03m block time above.
Plan Cairo to Tokyo 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 NRT 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 NRT airport entry
- Hand carry into Egypt
- Hand carry into Japan
- 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 NRT: 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.