Route brief · AMS → CAI
Amsterdam → Cairo
$294
−18% vs typical
seasonal median $360 · difference $66
Jan 11 '27 – Jan 17 '27 · 6 nights
TransaviaNonstop
- Usual monthly lows
- $296–$383
- Board rank
- Stronger than 49%
- Route sample
- 6 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefCAICairoTwenty million people, five thousand years, and the pyramids sitting at the edge of the suburbs.Best windowOct–AprAirportsCairo (CAI) · Sphinx (SPX)All routes into CairoWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 6 months, Jan is the cheapest for AMS → CAI. Best time to be there: Oct–Apr.
Fares bottom out in January around $294 and peak in July near $508 — a $214 spread across the 6 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking flies Transavia nonstop and takes about 4.5 hours outbound, on a 6-night trip. At $294 for 3,283 km each way, that works out to about $45 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $39 typical of medium-haul fares here. Across the 16 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Cairo, this fare ranks 14th — 2.8× the $104 we hold from Milan.
Day-level prices for the next 3 months
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 12% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $398 then versus $351 now, across 6 recorded snapshots. This is a calendar-level trend, so an individual deal above can be lower. The lowest single day we have seen here is $296, on Nov 9.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 10 of 93 days priced, from 39 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
November 2026
Cheapest in Jan · around $294
18% below the $360 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Amsterdam → Cairo · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Schiphol (AMS) ↔ Cairo (CAI) · Sphinx (SPX)
- Flight time
- ~4.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~3,283 km each way
- Typical price
- $360 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Transavia
- Itineraries
- Nonstop available
- Best months to visit
- Oct–Apr
AMS → CAI, answered.
Is $294 a good price for Amsterdam to Cairo?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $360 round-trip and this fare is 18% under it, about $66. We do not call a drop notable until 20%, so this is an ordinary price for the route rather than a reason to hurry.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Amsterdam to Cairo?
Across 6 months of cached-fare history, Jan comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Cairo are Oct–Apr — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book AMS → Cairo?
We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet. Answering it honestly means watching the same departure date on this route over many weeks as it approaches, and that archive is still filling up — so any "book N days ahead" figure here would be borrowed from somewhere else rather than measured. What we can measure is which month is cheap: across 6 months of cached fares, Jan comes out lowest on this route. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Amsterdam to Cairo?
Yes — the current board includes nonstop fares (Transavia). The outbound leg runs around 4.5 hours.
Are these prices guaranteed?
No — these are cached fares found on real searches (this one on September 1). Airlines reprice constantly, so the booking search re-checks the live price before you pay. Fresher finds are far more likely to still be available.
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