The sector is held by Transavia France.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
MRS Marseille to CAI Cairo
Marseille Provence, France, to Cairo International, Egypt. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 2 times a week
- Great circle
- 2,744 km
- Block, estimated
- 4h 00m
- Door to door
- 10h 45m
What MRS to CAI looks like
The MRS to CAI sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Marseille MRS to Cairo CAI is a medium haul sector of 2,744 km by great circle, flown nonstop 2 times a week.
At the cruise speed this site models for 2,744 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 4h 00m.
Marseille MRS is a large airport in the network held here, 117 scheduled destinations and 158 departures a day. Cairo CAI has 105 destinations and 311.7 departures a day.
Cairo is one hour ahead of Marseille 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 MRS to CAI from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| MRS to CAI | 0.29 | 2 | Transavia France |
| CAI to MRS | 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 MRS 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 00m block time on MRS 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 MRS | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At MRS before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| MRS to CAI in the air, estimated | 240 min | 8h 30m |
| Formalities at CAI | 90 min | 10h 00m |
| Delivery run in Cairo | 45 min | 10h 45m |
| Door to door | 645 min | 10h 45m |
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 MRS to CAI is 10h 45m.
A courier who leaves Marseille at 09:00 local is on the ground in Cairo at about 14:00 local and at the door by 16:15 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Cairo, the last useful departure from Marseille is around 10:45 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. 36 of them join MRS to CAI.
| Connecting at | MRS to hub, flights a day | Hub to CAI, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tunis TUN | 4.57 | 1.57 | 2,943 | 5h 46m |
| Athens ATH | 1.57 | 6.43 | 2,795 | 5h 49m |
| Rome FCO | 2.43 | 4.57 | 2,753 | 6h 08m |
| Bergamo BGY | 0.86 | 2.43 | 2,990 | 6h 09m |
| Istanbul SAW | 1.14 | 3.43 | 3,211 | 6h 21m |
| Milan MXP | 1.14 | 5.29 | 2,987 | 6h 24m |
36 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Tunis TUN, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about once a day.
Through TUN the routing covers 2,943 km against the 2,744 km nonstop track and takes about 5h 46m 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 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, Athens ATH at 5h 49m and Rome FCO at 6h 08m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Marseille, Nice NCE is 163 km away by great circle and carries 116 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 MRS or CAI. Listed as industrial geography, not as customers of anyone.
- Airbus Helicopters, MarignaneHelicopter final assembly and the group helicopter head office. Rotorcraft AOG, frequently for offshore and medical operators who cannot wait. Logistics through Marseille MRS.
Plan Marseille 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 MRS 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 MRS 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 MRS 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.