The sector is held by EgyptAir.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
BOM Mumbai to CAI Cairo
Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, India, to Cairo International, Egypt. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 6 times a week
- Great circle
- 4,341 km
- Block, estimated
- 5h 44m
- Door to door
- 12h 29m
What BOM to CAI looks like
The BOM to CAI sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Mumbai BOM to Cairo CAI is a long haul sector of 4,341 km by great circle, flown nonstop 6 times a week.
At the cruise speed this site models for 4,341 km, 880 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 5h 44m.
Mumbai BOM is a large airport in the network held here, 106 scheduled destinations and 372.3 departures a day. Cairo CAI has 105 destinations and 311.7 departures a day.
Cairo runs 3.5 hours behind of Mumbai in January and 2.5 hours behind in July, because the two ends do not change their clocks together.
The pair sits between Africa and Asia Pacific, a corridor where the site already publishes 1 written lanes that go into customs and ground detail this page does not.
Who flies the sector, and how often
Average daily frequencies on BOM to CAI from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| BOM to CAI | 0.86 | 6 | EgyptAir |
| CAI to BOM | 0.57 | 4 | EgyptAir |
One carrier holds the sector, EgyptAir, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
The two directions are not level: BOM to CAI runs 6 times a week, the return runs 4 times a week, and a round trip has to be planned around the thinner of the two.
Between them the two directions put about 10 departures a week on BOM 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 5h 44m block time on BOM 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 BOM | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At BOM before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| BOM to CAI in the air, estimated | 344 min | 10h 14m |
| Formalities at CAI | 90 min | 11h 44m |
| Delivery run in Cairo | 45 min | 12h 29m |
| Door to door | 749 min | 12h 29m |
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 BOM to CAI is 12h 29m.
A courier who leaves Mumbai at 09:00 local is on the ground in Cairo at about 11:14 local and at the door by 13:29 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Cairo, the last useful departure from Mumbai is around 13:31 local.
At 12h 29m the mission uses most of a sixteen hour duty day, which leaves no room for a delay before a rest at the far end becomes the honest answer.
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. 33 of them join BOM to CAI.
| Connecting at | BOM to hub, flights a day | Hub to CAI, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amman AMM | 0.71 | 9.57 | 4,410 | 7h 27m |
| Medina MED | 0.86 | 16.14 | 4,495 | 7h 30m |
| Dammam DMM | 1.72 | 12.43 | 4,343 | 7h 32m |
| Ras Al Khaimah RKT | 0.86 | 1.14 | 4,342 | 7h 32m |
| Muscat MCT | 4.29 | 3.29 | 4,346 | 7h 33m |
| Sharjah SHJ | 2.57 | 8 | 4,341 | 7h 33m |
33 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 5 times a week.
Through AMM the routing covers 4,410 km against the 4,341 km nonstop track and takes about 7h 27m 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 43m 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 7h 30m and Dammam DMM at 7h 32m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Mumbai, Pune PNQ is 124 km away by great circle and carries 34 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Plan Mumbai 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 BOM 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 BOM airport entry
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- Hand carry into India
- Hand carry into Egypt
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- The written lane, Doha to Mumbai
- The written lane, Dubai to Mumbai
- The route calculator
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