The sector is held by Nile Air.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
ARN Stockholm to CAI Cairo
Stockholm Arlanda, Sweden, to Cairo International, Egypt. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 2 times a week
- Great circle
- 3,436 km
- Block, estimated
- 4h 38m
- Door to door
- 11h 23m
What ARN to CAI looks like
The ARN to CAI sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Stockholm ARN to Cairo CAI is a medium haul sector of 3,436 km by great circle, flown nonstop 2 times a week.
At the cruise speed this site models for 3,436 km, 880 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 4h 38m.
Stockholm ARN is a major hub in the network held here, 160 scheduled destinations and 329.4 departures a day. Cairo CAI has 105 destinations and 311.7 departures a day.
Cairo is one hour ahead of Stockholm 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 ARN to CAI from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| ARN to CAI | 0.29 | 2 | Nile Air |
| CAI to ARN | 0.29 | 2 | Nile Air |
One carrier holds the sector, Nile Air, 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 ARN 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 38m block time on ARN 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 ARN | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At ARN before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| ARN to CAI in the air, estimated | 278 min | 9h 08m |
| Formalities at CAI | 90 min | 10h 38m |
| Delivery run in Cairo | 45 min | 11h 23m |
| Door to door | 683 min | 11h 23m |
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 ARN to CAI is 11h 23m.
A courier who leaves Stockholm at 09:00 local is on the ground in Cairo at about 14:38 local and at the door by 16:53 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Cairo, the last useful departure from Stockholm is around 10:07 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. 43 of them join ARN to CAI.
| Connecting at | ARN to hub, flights a day | Hub to CAI, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bucharest OTP | 1.14 | 0.71 | 3,437 | 6h 38m |
| Istanbul SAW | 3.71 | 3.43 | 3,442 | 6h 39m |
| Larnaca LCA | 1.29 | 1.14 | 3,550 | 6h 39m |
| Warsaw WAW | 3.29 | 0.86 | 3,450 | 6h 39m |
| Budapest BUD | 2.43 | 0.71 | 3,550 | 6h 47m |
| Athens ATH | 2.43 | 6.43 | 3,559 | 6h 48m |
43 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Bucharest OTP, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 5 times a week.
Through OTP the routing covers 3,437 km against the 3,436 km nonstop track and takes about 6h 38m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 75 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, Istanbul SAW at 6h 39m and Larnaca LCA at 6h 39m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
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.
Stockholm ARN is shut to scheduled movements between 22:00 and 06:00 local, so a collection in Stockholm that runs late does not simply catch a later flight, it waits for the morning and loses a working day in Cairo.
Stockholm ARN, night restrictions: Night movements are restricted between 22:00 and 06:00 local with exemptions.
Plan Stockholm 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 ARN 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 ARN airport entry
- The CAI airport entry
- Hand carry into Sweden
- Hand carry into Egypt
- The written lane, Dubai to Stockholm
- The written lane, Cairo to Athens
- The written lane, Cairo to Sharjah
- The route calculator
More pairs through ARN and CAI: Copenhagen to Stockholm, Amsterdam to Stockholm, London to Stockholm, Paris to Stockholm, Frankfurt to Stockholm, Munich to Stockholm, Vienna to Stockholm, Stockholm to Oslo.