Flights from Cairo to Beirut (CAI-BEY): Airlines, USD Fares

Flights Cairo -> Beirut (CAI-BEY) — USD Fares, Airlines, Frequency

5 scheduled departures a week link Cairo (CAI) in Egypt with Beirut (BEY) — one every 1.4 days on average — flown by 1 catalogued carrier at a scheduled block time near 1.5 hours. Our catalogue scores corridor demand 6/10 and files it as a business / Indian-African / Lebanese-African corridor.

Flight CAI -> BEY is operated by EgyptAir (~5 flights per week, ~1.5h block time). This is an business / Indian-African / Lebanese-African corridor, with typical economy USD fares in the $500-1,500 band. Business inbound and India-Africa corridors reward 6-10 weeks of lead time.

Great-circle distance Cairo–Beirut is about 563 km, computed from the stored coordinates of CAI (30.12, 31.41) and BEY (33.82, 35.49). What the figure fixes is the sector profile — 563 km against a scheduled 1.5-hour block time — and the fuel-and-crew economics behind the fare floor. It does not fix a compensation amount. No fixed-tariff compensation scheme reaches CAI–BEY. EU261 and UK261 do band by distance, but they only cover flights departing an EU/EEA or UK airport — plus arrivals there on a bloc-licensed carrier — and neither endpoint here is one, whoever operates the flight. The Montreal Convention 1999 is what applies, and it pays provable loss, not a tariff.

Airlines on this route

1 carrier operates CAI–BEY: EgyptAir (MS), a full-service airline based in Egypt, a member of Star Alliance, with a 23 kg checked-baggage baseline in our table. Our route file puts the corridor at about 5 weekly departures with a scheduled block time near 1.5 hours.

Our carrier table records a diaspora / migrant-worker baggage uplift of +18 kg on EgyptAir. Read that as a carrier promotion, not a universal entitlement: uplifts of this kind are normally tied to specific fare families and specific corridors, they are rarely honoured on a codeshare or interline segment issued by another airline, and the cheapest promotional fare buckets are the ones most often excluded. Confirm the allowance against your own booking class before you pack to it.

EgyptAir bases its operation at Cairo (CAI), which is where the corridor’s recovery capacity sits. A hub carrier at the disrupted end has spare aircraft, spare crew and a connecting bank to reflow you through; the same airline at its outstation end usually has one aircraft a day and no local engineering. If the schedule matters, the direction you fly changes your odds.

USD fares — CAI-BEY

$271 is the lowest one-way economy price the Travelpayouts feed returned for CAI–BEY on MS, for a 2026-09-07T09:00:00+02:00 departure. That is a single cached observation on this one corridor — not a low across the site’s fare cache, and not a live price — so read it as an observed floor for CAI–BEY on that date.

Typical economy fares on CAI-BEY sit in the $500-1,500 range. Live cached fares from Travelpayouts appear in the panel below; fare-month seasonality follows.

Across the 4 departure months our cache holds a one-way low for, the cheapest reading on CAI–BEY is $145 for a Sep 2026 departure and the dearest is $181 for Jul 2026 — a spread of $36 between the best and worst month in the same cache. Month-to-month movement of that size is normal on this corridor and is usually worth more than any single booking trick.

Treat every cached figure on CAI–BEY as a fare, not as a trip cost. What the cache cannot see is the booking class behind the number: checked baggage, seat selection and change rights are all fare-family attributes, and the buckets that produce record-low quotes are the ones that include least. Price the trip you are actually taking.

CAI–BEY fare history — 2026-W23 to 2026-W29

4 weekly readings between 2026-W23 and 2026-W29 put the cached CAI–BEY low between $271 and $319 — a $48 spread, 18% of the cheapest reading. The cheapest reading is also the most recent, 2026-W29. Each row is one weekly snapshot of the cheapest published quote, not an average of everything sold that week.

The cached low fell 10% between the first and last reading, from $300 to $271. Read it with the sample size in front of you: 4 observations over a ten-week window is a signal about this corridor’s volatility, not a forecast. What it does establish is a defensible floor — you now know $271 was achievable on CAI–BEY inside the window, so a quote well above $319 is worth a second search.

Each row is a single weekly snapshot of the cheapest published quote, taken on one day, not an average of everything sold that week. Two consequences follow. A one-week dip can be a single small fare bucket rather than a trend, and a gap between weeks means we did not sample, not that fares vanished. Our history file covers 161 corridors on this pattern, which is what makes cross-corridor comparison possible at all.

How much baggage can you take on CAI–BEY?

23 kg is the checked-baggage baseline our carrier table records for the 1 airline on CAI–BEY, with a recorded diaspora uplift of up to +18 kg on EgyptAir. Baselines are economy figures and fare-family dependent. The allowance printed on your issued ticket overrides any table, this one included.

The baseline is the headline, the fare family is the contract. On CAI–BEY the same carrier will sell you a fare beneath its own advertised allowance, and those stripped buckets are exactly the ones that set record-low cached prices. Whatever a table says — this one included — the allowance on your issued itinerary is the number that will be enforced at the counter.

Where our table records a migrant or diaspora uplift — +18 kg on EgyptAir — three exclusions usually bite. The uplift attaches to nominated corridors rather than the whole network; it rarely survives onto a codeshare or interline segment operated and ticketed by a different airline; and the deepest-discount fare buckets are commonly carved out. None of that makes the uplift fictional, but it does mean it has to be confirmed against your booking class, in writing, before you pack to it.

Search live fares

5 weekly departures across 1 carrier mean a live CAI–BEY search returns several price points for the same day; our cached floor for the corridor is $271. Scheduled nonstop block time is 1.5 hours, so any result far above that is connecting whatever the screen says.

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A live CAI–BEY search is only comparable once three things are pinned: the cabin and passenger count, so totals are like for like; the elapsed time, which separates a genuine nonstop from a routing that merely costs the same; and the baggage the fare includes. Skip any of the three and you are comparing two different products.

Flexible dates are the highest-leverage setting on this corridor. Our own cache shows month-to-month movement on CAI–BEY that dwarfs the difference between booking gates, so one search across a whole month tells you more than five searches on a single date. Where the dates cannot move — a pilgrimage window, a school term, a contract start — book earlier instead of searching harder.

About Beirut

1 catalogued corridor in this site’s data reach Beirut (BEY), Rafic Hariri International, ICAO OLBA, from 1 catalogued origin and 1 carrier in total. That count is this site’s coverage of Beirut, not the airport’s published schedule. Each of those corridors has its own guide with carriers, weekly frequency, scheduled block time and whatever the fare cache holds.

Beirut, Lebanon — destination on the business / Indian-African / Lebanese-African corridor. Destination currency: USD (we quote in USD throughout this guide).

Where our airport file holds no coordinates, hub carriers or country row for a destination, this page says less rather than guessing — no distance band, no hub analysis, no currency note. Beirut is catalogued here on the strength of the CAI–BEY corridor itself: the carriers our route file records, the estimated weekly frequency, the scheduled block time and whatever the fare cache has seen. That is a narrower page, and an honest one.

What this page deliberately does not claim: it is an air-corridor guide, not a city guide. Everything above comes from our route, airport and fare files — carriers, frequency, block time, coordinates and cached quotes. For what to do once you land in Beirut, the destination’s own tourism authority is a better source than any flight-fare site, including this one.

FAQ

Which airlines fly Cairo to Beirut? Direct CAI-BEY flights are operated by EgyptAir. Compare baggage baseline and alliance in the carrier table above.

How long is the CAI-BEY flight and how often does it run? Block time is about 1.5 hours. The CAI-BEY route runs roughly 5 flights per week across all carriers.

How much does a CAI-BEY flight cost and when is it cheapest? Typical economy fares sit in the $500-1,500 USD band. Business inbound and India-Africa corridors reward 6-10 weeks of lead time.

What is the checked baggage allowance on CAI-BEY? It varies by carrier and fare class — see the baggage-baseline column in the carrier table above. Full-service carriers usually include 23-30 kg, while low-cost carriers sell it as an add-on. Confirm on the airline’s site before booking.

What currency is used in Beirut? Beirut uses USD. Fares in this guide are quoted in USD; budget on-the-ground spending in USD.

Related routes and reading

2 onward links follow for CAI–BEY, derived from shared endpoints, shared carriers and shared audience clusters rather than keyword similarity. The note after each says what that page adds that this one does not. Each corridor entry carries that route’s carriers, estimated weekly frequency, scheduled block time and demand score straight from our route file.

• Cairo airport (CAI) — Cairo International, Egypt: 12 catalogued departure corridors and 1 arrival corridor.
• Beirut airport (BEY) — Rafic Hariri International, Lebanon: 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.

The corridor links are there to be used as alternatives, not as further reading. If the CAI–BEY fare or schedule does not work, a different African gateway to Beirut is often the better fix — positioning within the continent is cheap relative to the long-haul sector, and the fare gap between two origins to the same destination is regularly wider than the positioning ticket. The catch is that separately issued sectors carry no protection if the first one runs late.