The sector is held by Air Cairo, Corendon Airlines Europe, Nile Air and TUIfly.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
HRG Hurghada to STR Stuttgart
Hurghada International, Egypt, to Stuttgart Airport, Germany. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About twice a day
- Great circle
- 3,191 km
- Block, estimated
- 4h 21m
- Door to door
- 11h 06m
What HRG to STR looks like
The HRG to STR sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Hurghada HRG to Stuttgart STR is a medium haul sector of 3,191 km by great circle, flown nonstop about twice a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 3,191 km, 880 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 4h 21m.
Hurghada HRG is a large airport in the network held here, 87 scheduled destinations and 83.3 departures a day. Stuttgart STR has 127 destinations and 137.3 departures a day.
Stuttgart is one hour behind of Hurghada 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 HRG to STR from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| HRG to STR | 2 | 14 | Air Cairo, Corendon Airlines Europe, Nile Air, TUIfly |
| STR to HRG | 1.49 | 10.4 | Air Cairo, Corendon Airlines Europe, TUIfly, Nile Air |
4 carriers are recorded on the sector, so a missed departure is normally a rebooking rather than a lost day.
Between them the two directions put about 24.4 departures a week on HRG to STR, 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 21m block time on HRG to STR. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to HRG | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At HRG before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| HRG to STR in the air, estimated | 261 min | 8h 51m |
| Formalities at STR | 90 min | 10h 21m |
| Delivery run in Stuttgart | 45 min | 11h 06m |
| Door to door | 666 min | 11h 06m |
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 HRG to STR is 11h 06m.
A courier who leaves Hurghada at 09:00 local is on the ground in Stuttgart at about 12:21 local and at the door by 14:36 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Stuttgart, the last useful departure from Hurghada is around 12:24 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. 29 of them join HRG to STR.
| Connecting at | HRG to hub, flights a day | Hub to STR, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Belgrade BEG | 0.86 | 0.86 | 3,246 | 6h 24m |
| Munich MUC | 3.29 | 4.71 | 3,217 | 6h 26m |
| Leipzig LEJ | 2.29 | 0.86 | 3,620 | 6h 28m |
| Zurich ZRH | 2.14 | 2.71 | 3,291 | 6h 30m |
| Istanbul SAW | 3.71 | 6.14 | 3,379 | 6h 34m |
| Vienna VIE | 2 | 3.71 | 3,310 | 6h 35m |
One nonstop a day means one chance a day, so the connections below are what a consignment that arrives at HRG in the afternoon actually flies on.
29 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Belgrade BEG, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 6 times a week.
Through BEG the routing covers 3,246 km against the 3,191 km nonstop track and takes about 6h 24m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 75 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is only 2h 03m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Munich MUC at 6h 26m and Leipzig LEJ at 6h 28m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Hurghada, Sharm El Sheikh SSH is 107 km away by great circle and carries 62 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
If nothing suitable leaves Stuttgart, Zurich ZRH is 145 km away by great circle and carries 223 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.
Stuttgart STR is shut to scheduled movements between 23:30 and 06:00 local, which matters here because an aircraft leaving Hurghada late arrives into a closed airport rather than a quiet one.
Stuttgart STR, night restrictions: No scheduled movements between 23:30 and 06:00 local.
Read back down the sector, a departure from Hurghada later than about 20:09 local arrives at STR after it has closed for the night, on the 4h 21m block time above.
Industry within reach of the two ends
Public manufacturing and research sites whose logistics run through HRG or STR. Listed as industrial geography, not as customers of anyone.
- Mercedes-Benz, Sindelfingen and UntertuerkheimS-Class assembly, powertrain and research. Stuttgart is the densest automotive engineering cluster in Europe. Logistics through Stuttgart STR.
- Porsche, ZuffenhausenSports car and engine assembly. Low volume, high value, and intolerant of a missing component. Logistics through Stuttgart STR.
- Audi, Ingolstadt and NeckarsulmAssembly, aluminium body construction and engines. Two plants, two airports, one takt. Logistics through Stuttgart STR.
- Zeiss SMT, OberkochenOptics for lithography systems. The optics that make lithography possible, made in one place. Logistics through Stuttgart STR.
Plan Hurghada to Stuttgart 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 HRG to STR 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.
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