Route brief · BOS → CAI
Boston → Cairo
$837
round-trip · too little price history on this route to compare
Mar 2 '27 – Mar 4 '27 · 2 nights
Air Canada2 stops
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.
Best time to be in Cairo: Oct–Apr. Fare history for this route is still thin, so we make no seasonal call yet.
The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes 2 stops and takes about 14 hours outbound, on a 2-night trip — ticketed under Air Canada, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $837 for 8,718 km each way, that works out to about $48 per 1,000 km flown. That is about the $44 typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 17 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Cairo, this fare ranks 15th — 2.2× the $378 we hold from Chicago. For context, the middle fare among the 21 routes of similar length we watch out of Boston is $810. We have 2 months of cached prices for this route so far — not enough to call a fare cheap or expensive, so we publish the price without a percentage.
The one day we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 98% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $441 then versus $873 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 $427, on Sep 7.
These are the only days we have a cached price for on this route so far — not the only days it flies. The search above covers any date.
Route facts
- Airports
- Logan (BOS) ↔ Cairo (CAI) · Sphinx (SPX)
- Flight time
- ~14 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~8,718 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- Air Canada
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Oct–Apr
BOS → CAI, answered.
How far in advance should I book BOS → 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We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for the levers we can measure.
Are there nonstop flights from Boston to Cairo?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Air Canada. Nonstop options exist on many dates at higher prices — check the live search for your exact dates.
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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