The sector is held by Transavia France.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
LYS Lyon to CAI Cairo
Lyon Saint-Exupery, France, to Cairo International, Egypt. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 2 times a week
- Great circle
- 2,865 km
- Block, estimated
- 4h 10m
- Door to door
- 10h 55m
What LYS to CAI looks like
The LYS to CAI sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Lyon LYS to Cairo CAI is a medium haul sector of 2,865 km by great circle, flown nonstop 2 times a week.
At the cruise speed this site models for 2,865 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 4h 10m.
Lyon LYS is a large airport in the network held here, 122 scheduled destinations and 152.8 departures a day. Cairo CAI has 105 destinations and 311.7 departures a day.
Cairo is one hour ahead of Lyon 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 LYS to CAI from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| LYS to CAI | 0.29 | 2 | Transavia France |
| CAI to LYS | 0.29 | 2 | Transavia France |
One carrier holds the sector, Transavia France, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
At 2 times a week the nonstop is thin enough that a consignment which misses it waits days rather than hours, which is the case for reading the routings below before promising anything.
Between them the two directions put about 4.1 departures a week on LYS 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 10m block time on LYS 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 LYS | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At LYS before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| LYS to CAI in the air, estimated | 250 min | 8h 40m |
| Formalities at CAI | 90 min | 10h 10m |
| Delivery run in Cairo | 45 min | 10h 55m |
| Door to door | 655 min | 10h 55m |
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 LYS to CAI is 10h 55m.
A courier who leaves Lyon at 09:00 local is on the ground in Cairo at about 14:10 local and at the door by 16:25 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Cairo, the last useful departure from Lyon is around 10:35 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. 39 of them join LYS to CAI.
| Connecting at | LYS to hub, flights a day | Hub to CAI, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Athens ATH | 2.29 | 6.43 | 2,887 | 5h 56m |
| Geneva GVA | 1 | 0.71 | 2,921 | 6h 00m |
| Tunis TUN | 4.57 | 1.57 | 3,172 | 6h 03m |
| Milan MXP | 1 | 5.29 | 2,900 | 6h 16m |
| Rome FCO | 1.29 | 4.57 | 2,871 | 6h 19m |
| Istanbul SAW | 1.71 | 3.43 | 3,236 | 6h 23m |
39 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 about twice a day.
Through ATH the routing covers 2,887 km against the 2,865 km nonstop track and takes about 5h 56m 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 46m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Geneva GVA at 6h 00m and Tunis TUN at 6h 03m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Lyon, Geneva GVA is 97 km away by great circle and carries 159 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Industry within reach of the two ends
Public manufacturing and research sites whose logistics run through LYS or CAI. Listed as industrial geography, not as customers of anyone.
- STMicroelectronics, Crolles, GrenobleWafer fabrication and research. The French Alpine cluster, an hour from Lyon. Logistics through Lyon LYS.
Plan Lyon 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 LYS 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 LYS airport entry
- The CAI airport entry
- Hand carry into France
- 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
More pairs through LYS 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.