The sector is held by Air Arabia Egypt, Air Cairo, AlMasria, EgyptAir, flyadeal and flynas.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
JED Jeddah to CAI Cairo
King Abdulaziz International, Saudi Arabia, to Cairo International, Egypt. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 49.4 times a day
- Great circle
- 1,217 km
- Block, estimated
- 2h 03m
- Door to door
- 8h 48m
What JED to CAI looks like
The JED to CAI sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Jeddah JED to Cairo CAI is a medium haul sector of 1,217 km by great circle, flown nonstop 49.4 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 1,217 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 2h 03m.
Jeddah JED is a large airport in the network held here, 150 scheduled destinations and 424.7 departures a day. Cairo CAI has 105 destinations and 311.7 departures a day.
Cairo runs one hour behind of Jeddah in January and no time shift at all in July, because the two ends do not change their clocks together.
The pair sits between Africa and the Middle East, a corridor where the site already publishes 18 written lanes that go into customs and ground detail this page does not.
Who flies the sector, and how often
Average daily frequencies on JED to CAI from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| JED to CAI | 49.43 | 346 | Air Arabia Egypt, Air Cairo, AlMasria, EgyptAir, flyadeal, flynas |
| CAI to JED | 44.96 | 314.7 | Air Arabia Egypt, Air Cairo, EgyptAir, flyadeal, flynas, Nesma Airlines |
7 carriers are recorded on the sector, so a missed departure is normally a rebooking rather than a lost day.
At 49.4 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 660.7 departures a week on JED 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 2h 03m block time on JED 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 JED | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At JED before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| JED to CAI in the air, estimated | 123 min | 6h 33m |
| Formalities at CAI | 90 min | 8h 03m |
| Delivery run in Cairo | 45 min | 8h 48m |
| Door to door | 528 min | 8h 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 JED to CAI is 8h 48m.
A courier who leaves Jeddah at 09:00 local is on the ground in Cairo 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 Cairo, the last useful departure from Jeddah 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. 57 of them join JED to CAI.
| Connecting at | JED to hub, flights a day | Hub to CAI, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sharm El Sheikh SSH | 1.43 | 6.86 | 1,225 | 3h 38m |
| Medina MED | 4.57 | 16.14 | 1,351 | 3h 48m |
| Luxor LXR | 2.71 | 5.71 | 1,303 | 3h 55m |
| Port Sudan PZU | 5.57 | 2.57 | 1,645 | 4h 10m |
| Amman AMM | 8.57 | 9.57 | 1,632 | 4h 11m |
| Beirut BEY | 2 | 6.57 | 1,960 | 4h 37m |
With 49.4 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.
57 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Sharm El Sheikh SSH, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about once a day.
Through SSH the routing covers 1,225 km against the 1,217 km nonstop track and takes about 3h 38m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 60 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is only 1h 35m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Medina MED at 3h 48m and Luxor LXR at 3h 55m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
Plan Jeddah 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 JED 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 JED airport entry
- The CAI airport entry
- Hand carry into Saudi Arabia
- Hand carry into Egypt
- The written lane, Jeddah to Istanbul
- The written lane, Sharjah to Jeddah
- The written lane, Cairo to Athens
- The route calculator
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