Route brief · HOU → CAI
Houston → Cairo
$936
round-trip · too little price history on this route to compare
Sep 9 – Sep 21 · 12 nights
Qatar Airways1 stop
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 one stop and takes about 18 hours outbound, on a 12-night trip — ticketed under Qatar Airways, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $936 for 11,288 km each way, that works out to about $41 per 1,000 km flown. That is about the $40 typical of ultra-long-haul fares here. Across the 16 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Cairo, this fare ranks 14th — 2.5× the $378 we hold from Chicago. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 32 routes of similar length we watch out of Houston, where the middle fare is $939. We have 1 month 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 2 days we hold a cached fare for
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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
- Bush (IAH) · Hobby (HOU) ↔ Cairo (CAI) · Sphinx (SPX)
- Flight time
- ~18 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~11,288 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- Qatar Airways
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Oct–Apr
HOU → CAI, answered.
How far in advance should I book HOU → 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We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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 Houston to Cairo?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Qatar Airways. 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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