Cairo Airport (CAI) — Direct Flights, Airlines, USD Fares | Egypt

Cairo International (CAI, ICAO HECA) serves Cairo, Egypt and is both a departure point and a destination in the corridors catalogued here. It is the based hub of EgyptAir. Our catalogue links 12 direct destinations out of CAI and 1 African origin into it, served by 9 carriers.

At a glance

13 catalogued corridors touch Cairo (CAI / HECA) in Egypt: 12 outbound and 1 inbound, flown by 9 carriers, with EgyptAir based here. 4 of those corridors carry a cached USD quote in our fare file; the rest are catalogued on schedule evidence alone. The mix runs 8 sectors under four hours, 5 of four to seven and 0 beyond seven.

The route mix at CAI splits into 8 short sectors under four hours, 5 medium sectors of four to seven hours and 0 long-haul sectors beyond seven — a profile that tells you what the terminal is actually built around. 5 of the corridors here are flagged in our data as labour-migration or diaspora routes, where checked-baggage terms drive booking decisions more than schedule does.

Two codes, two uses. CAI is the IATA code you will see on a ticket, a baggage tag and a departure board, while HECA is the ICAO code used in flight plans, NOTAMs and air-traffic filing. They are not interchangeable: IATA codes are reused across the world’s smaller fields and are the ones that cause mis-booking, which is why every corridor on this site is keyed on the pair of codes rather than a city name.

Airlines serving CAI

9 carriers appear on the CAI corridors catalogued here, 9 of them with a row in our carrier file, recording checked-baggage baselines from 23 kg to 46 kg, and 8 of those rows sit inside a global alliance (SkyTeam 3, Star Alliance 3, Oneworld 2). A blank cell means no recorded value, not a zero.

These carriers operate the CAI corridors catalogued on this site. Cairo International is the based hub of EgyptAir, which anchors most of its schedule and connecting bank.

Alliance spread decides how easily a disruption at CAI gets fixed. With 3 SkyTeam carriers, 3 Star Alliance carriers, 2 Oneworld carriers on these corridors, a passenger stuck here can sometimes be reflowed onto a partner without a new ticket — but only within the same alliance, and only when the original ticket permits it. Between alliances, re-accommodation is a commercial favour rather than an entitlement.

Top routes from CAI

10/10 is the highest demand score on any CAI corridor in our catalogue — Cairo to Dubai (CAI–DXB), about 35 flights a week on MS and EK. Demand score is this catalogue’s own 1-10 editorial rating across 13 corridors at CAI, not a passenger count from a civil-aviation authority.

Sorted by demand; the USD market-low column is the cheapest fare our cache has seen on the corridor across all carriers.

About 51% of the roughly 152 weekly departures catalogued at CAI sit on just three corridors. That concentration is why the airport’s overall size tells you nothing useful about your own flight: on the trunk routes a cancellation costs hours, while on the tail of the distribution the next departure can be several days out. Read the frequency column, not the terminal.

Corridors and typical fares from CAI

4 of the 13 CAI corridors carry a cached USD quote, the lowest at $175. Fares are quoted in USD across the whole site so corridors from different African markets stay comparable. Sector length drives the shape: 8 run under four hours, 5 four to seven and 0 beyond seven.

Most CAI corridors here serve intra-Africa and Gulf-hub business travellers. The mix is 8 short intra-Africa hops (under 4 h), 5 medium Gulf-range sectors (4–7 h). 5 are labour-migration or diaspora corridors where extra-baggage allowances matter. USD fares vary by corridor — intra-Africa typically $400–900, Gulf hubs $500–1,200, long-haul $800–2,200; each per-route guide below carries live cached fares.

The shape of the fare curve follows the sector length. The 8 short corridors under four hours from CAI price like regional traffic and move mostly with the day of the week; the 0 long-haul corridors beyond seven hours move with season and school holidays, and can double between the cheapest and dearest month in our own cache. Mixing the two on one average would be meaningless, which is why every corridor page carries its own floor.

Direct flights from CAI — 12 destinations

12 catalogued routes are listed below for CAI, reaching 12 countries, led by France, Qatar and United Arab Emirates. Our catalogue records 12 departure and 1 arrival corridors at CAI, each linking to a corridor guide with carriers, frequency, block time and any cached fare.

• CAI -> AMM
• CAI -> ATH
• CAI -> BEY
• CAI -> CDG
• CAI -> DOH
• CAI -> DXB
• CAI -> FRA
• CAI -> IST
• CAI -> JED
• CAI -> KRT
• CAI -> LHR
• CAI -> NBO

Every entry leads to a corridor page with the same skeleton of facts: who flies it, how often, how long the nonstop sector is scheduled to take, how far apart the two airports actually are, and what our fare cache has recorded. Routing and carrier decide the trip; the fare only decides between equivalents.

Treat the list as a catalogue rather than a timetable. Routes are included where African outbound demand justifies a guide, so charter and marginal regional services at Cairo may be flying without being listed. Where a corridor is here, the carriers shown are the ones our route file records and a dash in the fare column means unqueried, not unavailable.

Direct flights to CAI — 1 route

1 catalogued route is listed below for CAI, reaching 12 countries, led by France, Qatar and United Arab Emirates. Our catalogue records 12 departure and 1 arrival corridors at CAI, each linking to a corridor guide with carriers, frequency, block time and any cached fare.

• NBO -> CAI

Every entry leads to a corridor page with the same skeleton of facts: who flies it, how often, how long the nonstop sector is scheduled to take, how far apart the two airports actually are, and what our fare cache has recorded. Routing and carrier decide the trip; the fare only decides between equivalents.

Treat the list as a catalogue rather than a timetable. Routes are included where African outbound demand justifies a guide, so charter and marginal regional services at Cairo may be flying without being listed. Where a corridor is here, the carriers shown are the ones our route file records and a dash in the fare column means unqueried, not unavailable.

Hub airlines based at CAI

1 carrier bases an operation at Cairo (CAI): EgyptAir (MS), on 13 catalogued corridors. A based carrier is where the airport’s recovery capacity lives. Across the 13 corridors catalogued at CAI, a based operation is what makes a same-day recovery realistic; an outstation carrier usually has one rotation and no local engineering.

EgyptAir

Hub status is operational, not marketing. A carrier that bases aircraft and crew at CAI builds connecting banks around it, holds spare capacity there, and can usually re-crew or swap metal the same day. The same airline at an outstation typically has one rotation and no local engineering, so an identical technical fault produces a two-hour delay at the hub and an overnight at the outstation.

It also shapes price. The based carrier usually sets the fare level on corridors out of Cairo and competitors price against it, which is why a hub airport is rarely the cheapest place to originate on its own home routes. Where our cache shows an unusually low floor at CAI, it is normally a competing carrier buying share rather than the hub carrier discounting.

FAQ

How is CAI airport connected? CAI (Cairo) connects to 12 destinations and is served by direct flights from 1 origin in our catalogue — see the full route list above.

What are the IATA and ICAO codes for CAI airport? The IATA code is CAI and the ICAO code is HECA. The airport serves Cairo, Egypt.

Which airlines are based at CAI? Hub carriers at CAI: MS.

How can I check fares and schedules for routes through CAI? Each route in the list above links to a guide with live USD fares, weekly frequency and the airlines that operate it.

Which airlines fly from CAI? Carriers on CAI corridors catalogued here: EgyptAir, Air France, Qatar Airways, Emirates, Lufthansa, Saudia, British Airways, Kenya Airways. See the airlines table above for alliance and baggage.

What is the cheapest flight from CAI? In our fare cache the lowest market fare out of CAI is about $175 on Cairo–Istanbul (CAI-IST). Fares move with season — check live prices on the route guide.

Related

3 related pages follow. Each is linked because it shares an endpoint, a carrier, a country or an audience cluster with this one — the annotations say what each adds, so the ones that do not apply to your trip can be skipped.

• Flights to Egypt — country landing page: 1 catalogued corridor from African airports, carriers, visa row and the USD fare floor we have on file.
• Amman airport (AMM) — Queen Alia International, Jordan: 0 catalogued departure corridors and 1 arrival corridor.
• Athens airport (ATH) — Eleftherios Venizelos International, Greece: 0 catalogued departure corridors and 1 arrival corridor.

Nothing above was chosen by keyword. The link set is derived from the route, carrier and airport files — a shared endpoint, a shared operator, a shared country or the same audience cluster is what puts a page on this list. That is why a link can point at a city you have no interest in and still be the useful one: it shares the airline.

Corridor pages carry the per-route detail — carriers, weekly frequency, scheduled block time, great-circle distance and whatever the fare cache holds. Airport pages carry the full catalogued route list at that field, the based hub carriers and the compensation regime of the country it sits in. Carrier pages carry the baggage baseline, alliance and the network as this catalogue records it.