The sector is held by Air Cairo, EgyptAir, flyadeal, flynas and Saudi Arabian Airlines.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
MED Medina to CAI Cairo
Prince Mohammad Bin Abdulaziz, Saudi Arabia, to Cairo International, Egypt. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 16.1 times a day
- Great circle
- 1,027 km
- Block, estimated
- 1h 49m
- Door to door
- 8h 34m
What MED to CAI looks like
The MED to CAI sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Medina MED to Cairo CAI is a short sector of 1,027 km by great circle, flown nonstop 16.1 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 1,027 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 1h 49m.
Medina MED is a mid sized airport in the network held here, 65 scheduled destinations and 107.5 departures a day. Cairo CAI has 105 destinations and 311.7 departures a day.
Cairo carries about 2.9 times the departures of Medina, so a courier who has to be rebooked has far more to work with at one end of this pair than at the other.
Cairo runs one hour behind of Medina 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 MED to CAI from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| MED to CAI | 16.14 | 113 | Air Cairo, EgyptAir, flyadeal, flynas, Saudi Arabian Airlines |
| CAI to MED | 15.86 | 111 | Air Cairo, EgyptAir, flyadeal, flynas, Saudi Arabian Airlines |
5 carriers are recorded on the sector, so a missed departure is normally a rebooking rather than a lost day.
At 16.1 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 224 departures a week on MED 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 1h 49m block time on MED 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 MED | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At MED before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| MED to CAI in the air, estimated | 109 min | 6h 19m |
| Formalities at CAI | 90 min | 7h 49m |
| Delivery run in Cairo | 45 min | 8h 34m |
| Door to door | 514 min | 8h 34m |
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 MED to CAI is 8h 34m.
A courier who leaves Medina at 09:00 local is on the ground in Cairo at about 09:49 local and at the door by 12:04 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Cairo, the last useful departure from Medina is around 14:56 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. 25 of them join MED to CAI.
| Connecting at | MED to hub, flights a day | Hub to CAI, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amman AMM | 1.57 | 9.57 | 1,348 | 3h 49m |
| Jeddah JED | 5.57 | 49.43 | 1,541 | 4h 17m |
| Baghdad BGW | 5.29 | 1.29 | 2,326 | 4h 59m |
| Riyadh RUH | 19.14 | 29.86 | 2,320 | 5h 07m |
| Kuwait City KWI | 1.43 | 9.86 | 2,572 | 5h 17m |
| Abha AHB | 0.57 | 2 | 2,510 | 5h 22m |
With 16.1 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.
25 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Amman AMM, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about once a day.
Through AMM the routing covers 1,348 km against the 1,027 km nonstop track and takes about 3h 49m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 60 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is only 2h 00m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Jeddah JED at 4h 17m and Baghdad BGW at 4h 59m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
Plan Medina 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 MED 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 MED airport entry
- The CAI airport entry
- Hand carry into Saudi Arabia
- 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 MED 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.