Flights Cairo -> Khartoum (CAI-KRT) — USD Fares, Airlines, Frequency
5 scheduled departures a week link Cairo (CAI) in Egypt with Khartoum (KRT) — one every 1.4 days on average — flown by 1 catalogued carrier at a scheduled block time near 2.5 hours.
Flight CAI -> KRT is operated by EgyptAir (~5 flights per week, ~2.5h 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–Khartoum is about 1,620 km, computed from the stored coordinates of CAI (30.12, 31.41) and KRT (15.59, 32.55). What the figure fixes is the sector profile — 1,620 km against a scheduled 2.5-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–KRT. 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–KRT: 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 2.5 hours.
| Carrier | Baggage baseline | Alliance |
|---|---|---|
| EgyptAir (MS) | 23 kg | Star Alliance |
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-KRT
$838 was the 2026-W25 reading in our weekly fare log for CAI–KRT, across 2 readings that range $834 to $838.
As a rough planning range (an editorial estimate, not an observed fare), economy on CAI-KRT 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.
Book 4-8 weeks ahead. Fares rise around the December holidays; mid-week departures are usually the cheapest. That window is general guidance rather than a rule for this single pairing; on a corridor with 5 weekly departures, the practical constraint is often seat availability on the days you can actually travel, not the headline fare.
One thing our fare data cannot tell you: whether the quote includes a checked bag. The cache stores a price and a carrier, not a fare family. On CAI–KRT that matters most where a low-cost carrier or a basic-economy bucket is in the mix, because the cheapest screen number and the cheapest all-in number are then two different itineraries. Compare after adding the bag you will actually carry.
Baggage on CAI–KRT: baselines, uplift and the exclusions
23 kg is the checked-baggage baseline our carrier table records for the 1 airline on CAI–KRT, 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.
The baseline is the headline, the fare family is the contract. On CAI–KRT the same carrier will sell you a fare beneath its own advertised allowance, and those stripped buckets are exactly the ones that set record-low cached prices. Whatever a table says — this one included — the allowance on your issued itinerary is the number that will be enforced at the counter.
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.
Nonstop, direct and one-stop on CAI–KRT
2.5 hours is the scheduled nonstop block time on CAI–KRT; any itinerary a search returns well above that is connecting, whatever the screen calls it. “Direct” is a flight-number description, not a promise of a single takeoff and landing. Two separately issued sectors are not one contract.
The distinction is not pedantry. A direct flight keeps one flight number through an intermediate stop, so it can sit in the nonstop filter of a search engine while adding an hour on the ground and a second departure to miss. A connecting itinerary changes flight number and usually aircraft. On CAI–KRT the practical test is the elapsed-time figure: compare it against the 2.5-hour block time before you compare prices.
The second trap is the ticket, not the routing. Two cheap sectors bought separately to reach Khartoum are not one contract: your bag is not through-checked, you re-clear security and often immigration at the transfer point, and if the first leg lands late the second airline owes you nothing — no rebooking, no refund, no duty of care. A single ticket that costs more can be the cheaper outcome the first time anything slips.
Search live fares
5 weekly departures across 1 carrier mean a live CAI–KRT search returns several price points for the same day; our weekly fare log has recorded readings as low as $838 (see the dated history on this page). Scheduled nonstop block time is 2.5 hours, so any result far above that is connecting whatever the screen says.
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Comparing CAI–KRT 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 2.5-hour nonstop. And the baggage line has to be checked, because the cheapest fare family is usually the one carrying the least.
Date flexibility beats every other lever on CAI–KRT. Month-scanning surfaces the seasonal shape our fare log records; repeated searching on one fixed date mostly surfaces the same fare bucket. When the calendar is not negotiable — pilgrimage, school holidays, a job start — the useful move is to buy sooner, because scarcity, not timing, is what sets the price then.
About Khartoum
2 catalogued corridors in this site’s data reach Khartoum (KRT), Khartoum International, ICAO HSSS, from 2 catalogued origins and 2 carriers in total. That count is this site’s coverage of Khartoum, 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.
Khartoum, Sudan — destination on the intra-Africa + Gulf hub transit corridor. Destination currency: USD (we quote in USD throughout this guide).
Beyond CAI, our catalogue reaches Khartoum from 1 other origin: Addis Ababa (ADD). That matters when the CAI–KRT fare is unattractive: on a continent where positioning flights are cheap, flying out of a different gateway is a real option, and each of those corridors has its own guide, carriers and cached fare floor on this site.
FAQ
Which airlines fly Cairo to Khartoum? Direct CAI-KRT flights are operated by EgyptAir. Compare baggage baseline and alliance in the carrier table above.
How long is the CAI-KRT flight and how often does it run? Block time is about 2.5 hours. The CAI-KRT route runs roughly 5 flights per week across all carriers.
How much does a CAI-KRT 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-KRT? 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 Khartoum? Khartoum 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.
- Khartoum airport (KRT) — Khartoum International, Sudan: 0 catalogued departure corridors and 2 arrival corridors.
Each airport page goes wider than this one: every catalogued route at that field, which carriers are actually based there, the alliance spread and the passenger rights regime of its country. That last item is the reason both ends of CAI–KRT are linked — on a disruption, the departure airport’s jurisdiction is what decides your remedy.