Erbil to Cairo flight

Flights from Erbil to Cairo start at €162.39 and take 5h 30m at their fastest.

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The Flights from Erbil to Cairo starts at €162.39 and takes 5h 30m door to door, run by 1 operator over 1,409 km, with around 5 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 90 days before departure.

Checked 9 September 2026Priced for 29 September 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 5h 30mDoor to door
  • 2h 20mMoving
  • €162.39From
  • 346.6 kgCO2
Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on 29 September 2026

Two journeys we can sell today, with the service number each operator files them under.

Cheapest€139.38
  1. Iraqi Airways IA145607:3051m08:21Erbil EBLBaghdad BGW
  2. Iraqi Airways IA698509:482h 7m11:55Baghdad BGWCairo CAI

Changes at Baghdad, with 87 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.

Door to door 7h 35mCO2 409.1 kgChanges 1Fixed, no changes

Fastest€149.41
  1. Egyptair E687706:212h 20m08:41Erbil EBLCairo SPX

Door to door 5h 30mCO2 346.6 kgChanges 0Fixed, no changes

Carriers

Airlines

Speed, flexibility and what is on board. Nothing here is a rating, because we have not earned one.

Every operator we sell on this corridor. Speed is the carrier's own typical cruising speed, not the average over this route.
OperatorFromFastestTypical speedFlexibilityOn board
Egyptair€149.415h 22m740 km/hFixed fareNot published
  • Egyptair

That is the travelling done. What happens after you walk out into Cairo is not something we sell.

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Booking window

When to book Erbil to Cairo

The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.

  1. €111.6590 days
  2. €112.2460 days
  3. €136.4345 days
  4. €122.2730 days
  5. €152.3621 days
  6. €162.3914 days
  7. €216.087 days
  8. €279.213 days
  9. €372.431 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 90 days ahead, at €111.65.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 234 percent. The dearest point is €372.43, 1 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 90 days before departure. Waiting from here has usually cost money on this corridor rather than saved it.
Day of the week

Which departure day costs least

Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.

  1. €201.92Sun
  2. €174.78Mon
  3. €167.11Tue
  4. €162.39Wed
  5. €200.15Thu
  6. €191.89Fri
  7. €205.46Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

The stations, airports and ports each mode on this corridor actually uses.

Erbil

Air
  • EBL

Cairo

Air
  • CAI
  • SPX
The journey

What the journey actually looks like

Direct or connecting, how far the route really runs, and what happens when a connection is missed.

Direct or connecting
20% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 80% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 1,409 km against 1,368 km in a straight line, a detour of 3 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
Where the change is
Connections are made at Beirut, Antalya, Amman, Baghdad. The gap between arriving and leaving is 73 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 13 percent chance of not being made on the timetable alone. Part of this journey is a self transfer between separate tickets, so leave more time than the minimum and expect to check in again.
First and last departure
The first service of the day leaves Erbil at 06:21 and the last at 07:30, across 5 departures. The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Erbil to Cairo

The questions people actually ask about this journey, answered from the same prices and times the page above is built on rather than written once and left to go stale.

How long does the Flight from Erbil to Cairo take?

The Flight from Erbil to Cairo takes 5h 30m door to door, of which 2h 20m is spent moving. The route runs 1,409 km. The difference between the two times is reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end, which every time on this page includes.

How much does the Flight from Erbil to Cairo cost?

The Flight from Erbil to Cairo starts at €162.39 for one passenger, checked on 29 September 2026. A typical fare is €149.41. Both are the total including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so the price here is the price at checkout.

Who runs the Flight from Erbil to Cairo?

1 operators run the Flight from Erbil to Cairo: Egyptair. Between them they file around 5 departures a day. The operator table on this page compares them on fare, journey time, cruising speed, fare conditions and what is provided on board.

Which terminal does the Flight from Erbil to Cairo use?

The Flight from Erbil to Cairo leaves from Erbil EBL and arrives at Cairo SPX. Allow about 3h 10m for reaching the departure terminal and leaving the arrival one. That time is already inside every door to door figure quoted on this page.

When should I book the Flight from Erbil to Cairo?

Fares for the Flight from Erbil to Cairo bottom out around 90 days ahead, at €111.65. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 234 percent, measured on 29 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Flight from Erbil to Cairo produce?

The Flight from Erbil to Cairo produces about 346.6 kg of CO2 per passenger over 1409 km, which works out at roughly 246 grams per passenger kilometre. That figure is for the whole journey and for one traveller, not for the vehicle.

Where these numbers come from

Observed service A carrier record shows this named operator serving this named pair, and we carry that through unchanged.

Schedules, seat counts and fares are generated by our own model until the supplier contracts are signed. Places, coordinates, operators, which operator serves which pair, and every distance are real. We would rather say that on every page than let a modelled number pass for a filed one.

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On this page
Every figure above was computed for Erbil to Cairo on 9 September 2026: 1409 km of route against 1368 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operators, a cheapest fare of €162.39, and 5h 30m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

Related journeys

Cairo is large, and the road in from CAI can take longer than the last hour of the flight. Cars are not our business.

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Getting from CAI into Cairo?

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