Flights from Cairo to Jeddah (CAI-JED): Airlines, USD Fares

Flights Cairo -> Jeddah (CAI-JED) — USD Fares, Airlines, Frequency

21 scheduled departures a week link Cairo (CAI) in Egypt with Jeddah (JED) — about 3 a day — flown by 2 catalogued carriers at a scheduled block time near 2.5 hours. Our catalogue scores corridor demand 10/10 and files it as a Hajj/Umrah pilgrim corridor.

Cairo to Jeddah is a high-frequency link between Egypt and Saudi Arabia, with around 21 flights a week. The route carries workers heading to jobs across Saudi Arabia, the large Egyptian community there, and — in the pilgrimage seasons — Muslim travellers bound for Umrah and Hajj, with Jeddah the usual point of arrival for the holy cities. Block time is about two and a half hours.

Great-circle distance Cairo–Jeddah is about 1,217 km, computed from the stored coordinates of CAI (30.12, 31.41) and JED (21.68, 39.16). What the figure fixes is the sector profile — 1,217 km against a scheduled 2.5-hour block time — and the fuel-and-crew economics behind the fare floor. It does not fix a compensation amount. Saudi GACA reaches any flight to or from Saudi Arabia and obliges care, rebooking or a full refund and compensation where the cause sits inside the airline’s control — but it sets no distance tariff, so the kilometre figure buys you nothing on a claim here.

Airlines on this route

2 carriers operate CAI–JED: EgyptAir (MS) and Saudia (SV). Our carrier table records checked-baggage baselines from 23 kg to 46 kg; the group spans SkyTeam and Star Alliance. That mix decides three things — the fare floor, whether your bag is through-checked on a connection, and which delay regulation covers you.

Two carriers fly CAI-JED: EgyptAir and Saudia, both full-service with a generous checked baggage allowance and meals included — practical for travellers carrying substantial luggage. Both fly direct, and the high combined frequency keeps the route well served through the year.

The CAI–JED carriers do not share one alliance — SkyTeam and Star Alliance are represented — and that has a concrete consequence. Mileage earning and lounge access do not carry across the split, and more importantly a connection built across two of these airlines is only through-checked when the two tickets are issued as one. Two separate confirmations mean you collect the bag, clear immigration where required, and check in again — and a missed second flight is your cost, not the airline’s.

USD fares — CAI-JED

$153 is the most recent weekly reading in our fare log for CAI–JED, taken in 2026-W29, across 6 readings that range $144 to $196. The point-in-time fare cache holds no entry for this corridor, so the weekly log is the observed evidence here.

CAI-JED fares move with the pilgrimage and labour calendars. The weeks around Hajj and the popular Umrah periods are the most expensive and sell out early — booking three to five months ahead is sensible for those dates. Outside the peaks, three to six weeks usually secures a reasonable economy fare in USD.

Book 3-5 months ahead. Fares move with the pilgrimage calendar and sell out far in advance around Hajj and the popular Umrah periods. That window is cluster guidance for a Hajj/Umrah pilgrim corridor rather than a rule for this single pairing; on a corridor with 21 weekly departures, the practical constraint is often seat availability on the days you can actually travel, not the headline fare.

One thing our fare data cannot tell you: whether the quote includes a checked bag. The cache stores a price and a carrier, not a fare family. On CAI–JED that matters most where a low-cost carrier or a basic-economy bucket is in the mix, because the cheapest screen number and the cheapest all-in number are then two different itineraries. Compare after adding the bag you will actually carry.

Delay and cancellation rights on CAI–JED

1 regulator governs CAI–JED: Saudi GACA, which applies to any flight to or from Saudi Arabia. It obliges care, rebooking or a full refund and compensation for cancellations and long delays inside the airline’s control. There is no EU-style fixed distance tariff, so the corridor’s kilometre figure decides nothing about the amount you can claim.

What does not apply matters as much as what does, because claim-management services will happily open a file either way. On CAI–JED: EU261 does not reach this corridor at all — neither endpoint is an EU/EEA airport, and carrier nationality alone never triggers it, US DOT rules are irrelevant here, and would only ever cover refunds rather than compensation even if they applied and UK261 does not apply, since no leg touches a UK airport. Filing under a scheme that does not cover your itinerary costs weeks and gets a rejection, so match the regulation to the departure airport and the operating carrier before you start.

CAI–JED fare history — 2026-W20 to 2026-W29

6 weekly readings between 2026-W20 and 2026-W29 put the cached CAI–JED low between $144 and $196 — a $52 spread, 36% of the cheapest reading. The low landed in 2026-W25; the most recent reading, 2026-W29, was $153. Each row is one weekly snapshot of the cheapest published quote, not an average of everything sold that week.

The cached low fell 22% between the first and last reading, from $196 to $153. Read it with the sample size in front of you: 6 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 $144 was achievable on CAI–JED inside the window, so a quote well above $196 is worth a second search.

Carriers behind the readings: NE, NP, SM, SV and XY, with the $144 low attributed to XY. Where a row shows a dash the gate returned no carrier code with the quote, which usually means a multi-carrier or agency-issued itinerary. Do not read a carrier name here as that airline’s own published fare — it is the marketing carrier on the cheapest itinerary a gate had loaded that week.

Search live fares

21 weekly departures across 2 carriers mean a live CAI–JED search returns several price points for the same day; the most recent weekly reading in our fare log was $153. Scheduled nonstop block time is 2.5 hours, so any result far above that is connecting whatever the screen says.

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Comparing CAI–JED quotes fairly takes three corrections. Passenger count and cabin have to match across the tabs you are comparing. Elapsed time has to be read beside the price, since a connection can add most of a day to the 2.5-hour nonstop. And the baggage line has to be checked, because the cheapest fare family is usually the one carrying the least.

Date flexibility beats every other lever on CAI–JED. Month-scanning surfaces the seasonal shape our fare log records; repeated searching on one fixed date mostly surfaces the same fare bucket. When the calendar is not negotiable — pilgrimage, school holidays, a job start — the useful move is to buy sooner, because scarcity, not timing, is what sets the price then.

About Jeddah

12 catalogued corridors in this site’s data reach Jeddah (JED), King Abdulaziz International, ICAO OEJN, from 12 catalogued origins and 8 carriers in total. That count is this site’s coverage of Jeddah, 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.

Jeddah sits on the Red Sea coast and is the main gateway to Mecca and Medina, which shapes much of the traffic through its airport. Beyond that role it is a large commercial city with a long trading history. For travellers from Egypt it is most often a point of arrival for work or for onward pilgrimage.

Beyond CAI, our catalogue reaches Jeddah from 11 other origins: Abuja (ABV), Accra (ACC), Addis Ababa (ADD), Dar es Salaam (DAR), Dakar (DKR), Durban (DUR), Entebbe (EBB), Johannesburg (JNB), Kigali (KGL), Lagos (LOS) and Nairobi (NBO). That matters when the CAI–JED fare is unattractive: on a continent where positioning flights are cheap, flying out of a different gateway is a real option, and each of those corridors has its own guide, carriers and cached fare floor on this site.

FAQ

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

How long is the CAI-JED flight and how often does it run? Block time is about 2.5 hours. The CAI-JED route runs roughly 21 flights per week across all carriers.

How much does a CAI-JED flight cost and when is it cheapest? Typical economy fares sit in the $550-1,200 USD band. Book 12-20 weeks ahead for Hajj season (Dhul-Hijjah); Umrah off-peak (Muharram, Safar) is 25-40% cheaper.

What is the checked baggage allowance on CAI-JED? 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. Diaspora travellers should check each carrier’s extra-baggage uplift.

Do I need a visa for Saudi Arabia? Hajj/Umrah visa via accredited agent. Visa rules differ by passport — check the destination’s embassy or official immigration portal before booking.

Related routes and reading

2 pages below connect to CAI–JED through the data: a shared airport, a shared operating carrier, or the same audience cluster in our segmentation. Each is annotated with what it actually contains, so you can decide before clicking. 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.
• Jeddah airport (JED) — King Abdulaziz International, Saudi Arabia: 0 catalogued departure corridors and 12 arrival corridors.

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–JED fare or schedule does not work, a different African gateway to Jeddah 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.