Cairo to Erbil flight

Flights from Cairo to Erbil start at €150.59 and take 5h 28m at their fastest.

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The Flights from Cairo to Erbil starts at €150.59 and takes 5h 28m 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 September 9, 2026Priced for September 29, 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 5h 28mDoor to door
  • 2h 18mMoving
  • €150.59From
  • 346.6 kgCO2
Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on September 29, 2026

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

Cheapest€142.33
  1. Egyptair E511407:301h 7m08:37Cairo SPXAmman AMM
  2. Royal Jordanian RJ318109:411h 42m11:23Amman AMMErbil EBL

Changes at Amman, with 64 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.

Door to door 7h 3mCO2 347.8 kgChanges 1Fixed, no changes

Fastest€149.41
  1. Egyptair E514206:212h 18m08:39Cairo CAIErbil EBL

Door to door 5h 28mCO2 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

Erbil is big enough that where you sleep decides what the days look like. We sell the seat, not the room.

A hotel room

Rooms within reach of Erbil - bnalsawa

Hotels and apartments near downtown, most of them with free cancellation, on a map that shows what is walkable.

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Booking window

When to book Cairo to Erbil

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. €132.8945 days
  4. €122.2730 days
  5. €147.0521 days
  6. €176.5514 days
  7. €211.957 days
  8. €279.213 days
  9. €389.541 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 90 days ahead, at €111.65.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 249 percent. The most expensive point is €389.54, 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. €201.33Sun
  2. €171.83Mon
  3. €150.59Tue
  4. €176.55Wed
  5. €201.92Thu
  6. €193.07Fri
  7. €200.15Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

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

Cairo

Air
  • CAI
  • SPX

Erbil

Air
  • EBL
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, Amman, Antalya, Baghdad. The gap between arriving and leaving is 53 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 18 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 Cairo 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 Cairo to Erbil

The questions people actually ask about this trip, 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 Cairo to Erbil take?

The Flight from Cairo to Erbil takes 5h 28m door to door, of which 2h 18m 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 Cairo to Erbil cost?

The Flight from Cairo to Erbil starts at €150.59 for one passenger, checked on September 29, 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 Cairo to Erbil?

1 operators run the Flight from Cairo to Erbil: 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 Cairo to Erbil use?

The Flight from Cairo to Erbil leaves from Cairo CAI and arrives at Erbil EBL. 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 Cairo to Erbil?

Fares for the Flight from Cairo to Erbil bottom out around 90 days ahead, at €111.65. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 249 percent, measured on September 29, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

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

The Flight from Cairo to Erbil produces about 346.6 kg of CO2 per passenger over 1409 km, which works out at roughly 246 grams per passenger kilometer. That figure is for the whole journey and for one traveler, 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 modeled number pass for a filed one.

Defined in full at Door to door, Fares, The booking window, Carbon

On this page
Every figure above was computed for Cairo to Erbil on September 9, 2026: 1409 km of route against 1368 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operators, a cheapest fare of €150.59, and 5h 28m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

Related journeys

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

A taxi stand outside an airport terminal

Getting from EBL into Erbil?

Settled in advance, so the ride into Erbil costs what it said it would rather than what the cab stand says.

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