Route brief · JKT → CAI
Jakarta → Cairo
$702
round-trip · too little price history on this route to compare
Sep 18 – Oct 10 · 22 nights
Indonesia AirAsia2 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 13 hours outbound, on a 22-night trip — ticketed under Indonesia AirAsia, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $702 for 8,986 km each way, that works out to about $39 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $44 typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 18 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Cairo, this fare ranks 11th — 1.9× the $378 we hold from Chicago. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 21 routes of similar length we watch out of Jakarta, where the middle fare is $802. 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 2 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 10% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $709 then versus $781 now, across 3 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 $702, on Sep 18.
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
- Soekarno–Hatta (CGK) · Halim (HLP) ↔ Cairo (CAI) · Sphinx (SPX)
- Flight time
- ~13 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~8,986 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- Indonesia AirAsia
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Oct–Apr
JKT → CAI, answered.
How far in advance should I book JKT → 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We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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 Jakarta to Cairo?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Indonesia AirAsia. 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 August 24). 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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