The sector is held by Transavia France.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
ORY Paris to CAI Cairo
Orly Airport, France, to Cairo International, Egypt. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About once a day
- Great circle
- 3,207 km
- Block, estimated
- 4h 22m
- Door to door
- 11h 07m
What ORY to CAI looks like
The ORY to CAI sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Paris ORY to Cairo CAI is a medium haul sector of 3,207 km by great circle, flown nonstop about once a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 3,207 km, 880 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 4h 22m.
Paris ORY is a major hub in the network held here, 157 scheduled destinations and 361.7 departures a day. Cairo CAI has 105 destinations and 311.7 departures a day.
Cairo is one hour ahead of Paris 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 ORY to CAI from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| ORY to CAI | 1 | 7 | Transavia France |
| CAI to ORY | 1 | 7 | 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.
Between them the two directions put about 14 departures a week on ORY 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 22m block time on ORY 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 ORY | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At ORY before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| ORY to CAI in the air, estimated | 262 min | 8h 52m |
| Formalities at CAI | 90 min | 10h 22m |
| Delivery run in Cairo | 45 min | 11h 07m |
| Door to door | 667 min | 11h 07m |
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 ORY to CAI is 11h 07m.
A courier who leaves Paris at 09:00 local is on the ground in Cairo at about 14:22 local and at the door by 16:37 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Cairo, the last useful departure from Paris is around 10:23 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. 31 of them join ORY to CAI.
| Connecting at | ORY to hub, flights a day | Hub to CAI, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Athens ATH | 4.43 | 6.43 | 3,213 | 6h 21m |
| Geneva GVA | 0.86 | 0.71 | 3,219 | 6h 26m |
| Tunis TUN | 8 | 1.57 | 3,562 | 6h 33m |
| Vienna VIE | 0.57 | 2.14 | 3,414 | 6h 36m |
| Rome FCO | 6 | 4.57 | 3,240 | 6h 39m |
| Budapest BUD | 1.14 | 0.71 | 3,450 | 6h 40m |
One nonstop a day means one chance a day, so the connections below are what a consignment that arrives at ORY in the afternoon actually flies on.
31 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 4.4 times a day.
Through ATH the routing covers 3,213 km against the 3,207 km nonstop track and takes about 6h 21m 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 59m 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 26m and Tunis TUN at 6h 33m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Paris, Paris CDG is 35 km away by great circle and carries 277 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Restricted hours at either end
Widely documented operating restrictions, checked 2026-09-07. Exemptions and seasonal variations exist, so confirm with the carrier before relying on any of them.
Paris ORY is shut to scheduled movements between 23:30 and 06:00 local, so a collection in Paris that runs late does not simply catch a later flight, it waits for the morning and loses a working day in Cairo.
Paris ORY, night restrictions: Closed to scheduled traffic between 23:30 and 06:00 local.
Industry within reach of the two ends
Public manufacturing and research sites whose logistics run through ORY or CAI. Listed as industrial geography, not as customers of anyone.
- Safran, Villaroche and CorbeilEngine assembly and test for the CFM programmes. The most produced engine family in the world generates the most spare movements. Logistics through Paris ORY.
Plan Paris 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 ORY 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 ORY 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
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