The sector is held by EgyptAir and Eurowings.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
DUS Dusseldorf to CAI Cairo
Dusseldorf Airport, Germany, to Cairo International, Egypt. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About once a day
- Great circle
- 3,109 km
- Block, estimated
- 4h 15m
- Door to door
- 11h 00m
What DUS to CAI looks like
The DUS to CAI sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Dusseldorf DUS to Cairo CAI is a medium haul sector of 3,109 km by great circle, flown nonstop about once a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 3,109 km, 880 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 4h 15m.
Dusseldorf DUS is a major hub in the network held here, 176 scheduled destinations and 290.7 departures a day. Cairo CAI has 105 destinations and 311.7 departures a day.
Cairo is one hour ahead of Dusseldorf 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 DUS to CAI from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| DUS to CAI | 1.29 | 9 | EgyptAir, Eurowings |
| CAI to DUS | 1.29 | 9 | EgyptAir, Eurowings |
Two carriers hold the sector, EgyptAir and Eurowings, which gives a missed departure somewhere to go without leaving the nonstop.
Between them the two directions put about 18.1 departures a week on DUS to CAI, 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 4h 15m block time on DUS to CAI. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to DUS | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At DUS before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| DUS to CAI in the air, estimated | 255 min | 8h 45m |
| Formalities at CAI | 90 min | 10h 15m |
| Delivery run in Cairo | 45 min | 11h 00m |
| Door to door | 660 min | 11h 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 DUS to CAI is 11h 00m.
A courier who leaves Dusseldorf at 09:00 local is on the ground in Cairo at about 14:15 local and at the door by 16:30 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Cairo, the last useful departure from Dusseldorf is around 10:30 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. 45 of them join DUS to CAI.
| Connecting at | DUS to hub, flights a day | Hub to CAI, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Athens ATH | 3.43 | 6.43 | 3,110 | 6h 13m |
| Budapest BUD | 1.57 | 0.71 | 3,188 | 6h 20m |
| Vienna VIE | 6.57 | 2.14 | 3,153 | 6h 26m |
| Larnaca LCA | 1 | 1.14 | 3,384 | 6h 26m |
| Prague PRG | 2 | 0.57 | 3,187 | 6h 26m |
| Istanbul SAW | 8.43 | 3.43 | 3,287 | 6h 27m |
One nonstop a day means one chance a day, so the connections below are what a consignment that arrives at DUS in the afternoon actually flies on.
45 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 3.4 times a day.
Through ATH the routing covers 3,110 km against the 3,109 km nonstop track and takes about 6h 13m 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 58m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Budapest BUD at 6h 20m and Vienna VIE at 6h 26m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Dusseldorf, Cologne CGN is 54 km away by great circle and carries 154 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.
Dusseldorf DUS is shut to scheduled movements between 22:00 and 06:00 local, so a collection in Dusseldorf that runs late does not simply catch a later flight, it waits for the morning and loses a working day in Cairo.
Dusseldorf DUS, night restrictions: Scheduled movements are restricted between 22:00 and 06:00 local, with a limited number of late landings allowed.
Industry within reach of the two ends
Public manufacturing and research sites whose logistics run through DUS or CAI. Listed as industrial geography, not as customers of anyone.
- Bayer, Leverkusen and WuppertalPharmaceutical research and production. The Rhineland cluster, two airports, one region. Logistics through Dusseldorf DUS.
- Siemens Energy, Berlin and MuelheimGas turbine manufacture and service. A turbine out of service is a power station out of service. Logistics through Dusseldorf DUS.
Plan Dusseldorf to Cairo 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 DUS to CAI 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 DUS airport entry
- The CAI airport entry
- Hand carry into Germany
- Hand carry into Egypt
- The written lane, Dubai to Dusseldorf
- The written lane, Cairo to Athens
- The written lane, Cairo to Sharjah
- The route calculator
More pairs through DUS and CAI: 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.