The sector is held by LOT - Polish Airlines.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
WAW Warsaw to CAI Cairo
Warsaw Chopin, Poland, to Cairo International, Egypt. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 6 times a week
- Great circle
- 2,596 km
- Block, estimated
- 3h 49m
- Door to door
- 10h 34m
What WAW to CAI looks like
The WAW to CAI sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Warsaw WAW to Cairo CAI is a medium haul sector of 2,596 km by great circle, flown nonstop 6 times a week.
At the cruise speed this site models for 2,596 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 3h 49m.
Warsaw WAW is a major hub in the network held here, 165 scheduled destinations and 327.5 departures a day. Cairo CAI has 105 destinations and 311.7 departures a day.
Cairo is one hour ahead of Warsaw 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 WAW to CAI from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| WAW to CAI | 0.86 | 6 | LOT - Polish Airlines |
| CAI to WAW | 0.71 | 5 | LOT - Polish Airlines |
One carrier holds the sector, LOT - Polish Airlines, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
Between them the two directions put about 11 departures a week on WAW 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 3h 49m block time on WAW 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 WAW | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At WAW before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| WAW to CAI in the air, estimated | 229 min | 8h 19m |
| Formalities at CAI | 90 min | 9h 49m |
| Delivery run in Cairo | 45 min | 10h 34m |
| Door to door | 634 min | 10h 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 WAW to CAI is 10h 34m.
A courier who leaves Warsaw at 09:00 local is on the ground in Cairo at about 13:49 local and at the door by 16:04 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Cairo, the last useful departure from Warsaw is around 10:56 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. 46 of them join WAW to CAI.
| Connecting at | WAW to hub, flights a day | Hub to CAI, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bucharest OTP | 4.29 | 0.71 | 2,598 | 5h 34m |
| Larnaca LCA | 2 | 1.14 | 2,738 | 5h 36m |
| Athens ATH | 3.71 | 6.43 | 2,706 | 5h 43m |
| Istanbul IST | 5.86 | 8.71 | 2,610 | 5h 50m |
| Budapest BUD | 6.71 | 0.71 | 2,729 | 5h 51m |
| Vienna VIE | 7.43 | 2.14 | 2,914 | 6h 04m |
46 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 2,598 km against the 2,596 km nonstop track and takes about 5h 34m 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 45m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Larnaca LCA at 5h 36m and Athens ATH at 5h 43m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Warsaw, Krakow KRK is 246 km away by great circle and carries 135 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Plan Warsaw 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 WAW 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 WAW airport entry
- The CAI airport entry
- Hand carry into Poland
- Hand carry into Egypt
- The written lane, Dubai to Warsaw
- The written lane, Warsaw to Seoul
- The written lane, Warsaw to Shanghai
- The route calculator
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