Route brief · SYD → CAI
Sydney → Cairo
$1,757
round-trip · too little price history on this route to compare
Dec 13 – Jan 17 '27 · 35 nights
Batik Air Malaysia2 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 20.5 hours outbound, on a 35-night trip — ticketed under Batik Air Malaysia, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $1,757 for 14,416 km each way, that works out to about $61 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $40 typical of ultra-long-haul fares here. Across the 6 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Cairo, this fare ranks 6th — 4.3× the $409 we hold from Dallas. For context, the middle fare among the 44 routes of similar length we watch out of Sydney is $1,340. 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 one day we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 26% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $1,379 then versus $1,014 now, across 5 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 $994, on Nov 9.
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
- Kingsford Smith (SYD) ↔ Cairo (CAI) · Sphinx (SPX)
- Flight time
- ~20.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~14,416 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- Batik Air Malaysia
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Oct–Apr
SYD → CAI, answered.
How far in advance should I book SYD → 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We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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 Sydney to Cairo?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Batik Air Malaysia. 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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