Cairo to Amman

Flights Cairo -> Amman (CAI-AMM) — USD Fares, Airlines, Frequency

5 scheduled departures a week link Cairo (CAI) in Egypt with Amman (AMM) — one every 1.4 days on average — flown by 1 catalogued carrier at a scheduled block time near 1.5 hours.

Flight CAI -> AMM is operated by EgyptAir (~5 flights per week, ~1.5h block time). This is an intra-Africa + Gulf hub transit corridor. As a rough planning range (an editorial estimate, not an observed fare), economy runs about $500-1,500; the fare observation on this page shows what our weekly snapshot recorded and when. Intra-Africa and Gulf-hub transit fares move week-to-week; 4-8 weeks is the typical sweet spot.

Great-circle distance Cairo–Amman is about 472 km, computed from the stored coordinates of CAI (30.12, 31.41) and AMM (31.72, 35.99). What the figure fixes is the sector profile — 472 km against a scheduled 1.5-hour block time — and the fuel-and-crew economics behind the fare floor. It does not fix a compensation amount. No fixed-tariff compensation scheme reaches CAI–AMM. EU261 and UK261 do band by distance, but they only cover flights departing an EU/EEA or UK airport — plus arrivals there on a bloc-licensed carrier — and neither endpoint here is one, whoever operates the flight. The Montreal Convention 1999 is what applies, and it pays provable loss, not a tariff.

Airlines on this route

1 carrier operates CAI–AMM: EgyptAir (MS), a full-service airline based in Egypt, a member of Star Alliance, with a 23 kg checked-baggage baseline in our table. We estimate about 5 weekly departures on the corridor, with a scheduled block time near 1.5 hours.

Our carrier table records a diaspora / migrant-worker baggage uplift of +18 kg on EgyptAir. Read that as a carrier promotion, not a universal entitlement: uplifts of this kind are normally tied to specific fare families and specific corridors, they are rarely honoured on a codeshare or interline segment issued by another airline, and the cheapest promotional fare buckets are the ones most often excluded. Confirm the allowance against your own booking class before you pack to it.

EgyptAir bases its operation at Cairo (CAI), which is where the corridor’s recovery capacity sits. A hub carrier at the disrupted end has spare aircraft, spare crew and a connecting bank to reflow you through; the same airline at its outstation end usually has one aircraft a day and no local engineering. If the schedule matters, the direction you fly changes your odds.

USD fares — CAI-AMM

$301 was the lowest one-way economy price the Travelpayouts feed returned in our weekly snapshot for CAI–AMM on MS, for a 2026-07-30T01:25:00+02:00 departure. That is a single cached observation on this one corridor — not a low across the site’s fare cache, and not a live price — so read it as an observed floor for CAI–AMM on that date.

As a rough planning range (an editorial estimate, not an observed fare), economy on CAI-AMM runs about $500-1,500; the fare observation on this page shows what our weekly snapshot recorded and when. Cached fares from a weekly Travelpayouts snapshot appear in the panel below, with their observation date; fare-month seasonality follows.

Across the 7 departure months our cache holds a one-way low for, the cheapest reading on CAI–AMM was $127 for a Oct 2026 departure and the dearest was $155 for Dec 2026 — a spread of $28 between the best and worst month in the same cache. Month-to-month movement of that size is normal on this corridor and is usually worth more than any single booking trick.

The fare family sits outside our data, and it is the piece that decides the real cost. A cached CAI–AMM quote records a price, a date and a carrier — not whether a 23 kg bag, a seat or a change is included. Where the corridor’s floor is set by a stripped fare, the ranking on screen reverses once the bag is added.

CAI–AMM fare history — 2026-W23 to 2026-W29

4 weekly readings between 2026-W23 and 2026-W29 put the cached CAI–AMM low between $295 and $304 — a $9 spread, 3% of the cheapest reading. The low landed in 2026-W23; the last reading in this table, 2026-W29, was $301. Each row is one weekly snapshot of the cheapest published quote, not an average of everything sold that week.

The cached low was effectively flat end to end — $295 at the start of the window against $301 at the end. Read it with the sample size in front of you: 4 observations over a ten-week window is a signal about this corridor’s volatility, not a forecast. What it does establish is a defensible floor — you now know $295 was achievable on CAI–AMM inside the window, so a quote well above $304 is worth a second search.

Carriers behind the readings: MS and SM, with the $295 low attributed to SM. Where a row shows a dash the gate returned no carrier code with the quote, which usually means a multi-carrier or agency-issued itinerary. Do not read a carrier name here as that airline’s own published fare — it is the marketing carrier on the cheapest itinerary a gate had loaded that week.

How much baggage can you take on CAI–AMM?

23 kg is the checked-baggage baseline our carrier table records for the 1 airline on CAI–AMM, with a recorded diaspora uplift of up to +18 kg on EgyptAir. Baselines are economy figures and fare-family dependent. The allowance printed on your issued ticket overrides any table, this one included.

Read the baseline as an advertised standard rather than a guarantee. Airlines on CAI–AMM sell below it through hand-baggage and basic-economy fare families, and those are disproportionately the fares that appear as the corridor’s cheapest quote. The only allowance that binds anyone is the one printed on the ticket you hold.

Where our table records a migrant or diaspora uplift — +18 kg on EgyptAir — three exclusions usually bite. The uplift attaches to nominated corridors rather than the whole network; it rarely survives onto a codeshare or interline segment operated and ticketed by a different airline; and the deepest-discount fare buckets are commonly carved out. None of that makes the uplift fictional, but it does mean it has to be confirmed against your booking class, in writing, before you pack to it.

Search live fares

5 weekly departures across 1 carrier mean a live CAI–AMM search returns several price points for the same day; our cached floor for the corridor is $301. Scheduled nonstop block time is 1.5 hours, so any result far above that is connecting whatever the screen says.

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Comparing CAI–AMM quotes fairly takes three corrections. Passenger count and cabin have to match across the tabs you are comparing. Elapsed time has to be read beside the price, since a connection can add most of a day to the 1.5-hour nonstop. And the baggage line has to be checked, because the cheapest fare family is usually the one carrying the least.

Flexible dates are the highest-leverage setting on this corridor. Our own cache shows month-to-month movement on CAI–AMM that dwarfs the difference between booking gates, so one search across a whole month tells you more than five searches on a single date. Where the dates cannot move — a pilgrimage window, a school term, a contract start — book earlier instead of searching harder.

About Amman

1 catalogued corridor in this site’s data reach Amman (AMM), Queen Alia International, ICAO OJAI, from 1 catalogued origin and 1 carrier in total. That count is this site’s coverage of Amman, not the airport’s published schedule. Each of those corridors has its own guide with carriers, weekly frequency, scheduled block time and whatever the fare cache holds.

Amman, Jordan — destination on the intra-Africa + Gulf hub transit corridor. Destination currency: USD (we quote in USD throughout this guide).

What this page deliberately does not claim: it is an air-corridor guide, not a city guide. Everything above comes from our route, airport and fare data — carriers, frequency, block time, coordinates and cached quotes. For what to do once you land in Amman, the destination’s own tourism authority is a better source than any flight-fare site, including this one.

FAQ

Which airlines fly Cairo to Amman? Direct CAI-AMM flights are operated by EgyptAir. Compare baggage baseline and alliance in the carrier table above.

How long is the CAI-AMM flight and how often does it run? Block time is about 1.5 hours. The CAI-AMM route runs roughly 5 flights per week across all carriers.

How much does a CAI-AMM flight cost and when is it cheapest? Our rough planning range is $500-1,500 USD (an editorial estimate, not an observed fare); the fare observation on this page shows what our weekly snapshot recorded and when. Intra-Africa and Gulf-hub transit fares move week-to-week; 4-8 weeks is the typical sweet spot.

What is the checked baggage allowance on CAI-AMM? It varies by carrier and fare class — see the baggage-baseline column in the carrier table above. Full-service carriers usually include 23-30 kg, while low-cost carriers sell it as an add-on. Confirm on the airline’s site before booking.

What currency is used in Amman? Amman uses USD. Fares in this guide are quoted in USD; budget on-the-ground spending in USD.

Related routes and reading

• Cairo airport (CAI) — Cairo International, Egypt: 12 catalogued departure corridors and 1 arrival corridor.
• Amman airport (AMM) — Queen Alia International, Jordan: 0 catalogued departure corridors and 1 arrival corridor.

Where this page covers one corridor, the linked airport guides cover the field: the full catalogued route list, based hub carriers, alliance mix and the compensation regime that applies there. Both CAI and AMM are linked deliberately, because departure airport and operating carrier — not destination — decide which rules cover a delay.