Cairo International Airport

Introduction

Cairo International Airport (CAI) is the biggest airport in Egypt and is located about 15 kilometres northeast of the centre of Cairo. It is the home base of the national airline of the country: Egypt Air.

For more information about other airports throughout the world, also see the list of airports.

Getting there and away

• The Cairo Airport shuttle bus departs every half hour from the airport to Cairo.
• The Airport Bus Service has both air-conditioned & non air-conditioned operating from Terminal 1. There are several stop bus stations; at Tahrir Square, downtown Cairo, Mohandesin, and along Pyramids Road in Giza.
• Taxis are available at any time, and operated on a flat fee basis.

Getting around

An automated people mover of almost 2 kilometres is expected to go into operation by mid of 2011 and will link Terminal 1, the Air Mall , the Multi-storey Car Park and Terminals 2 and 3.

Airlines, Destinations and Terminals

Currently, there are 2 terminals available, terminal 2 is under construction. For more information about airlines, also see the list of airlines and the details about flying with budget airlines.

Terminal 1

• Aeroflot - Moscow-Sheremetyevo
• Afriqiyah Airways - Tripoli
• Air Algérie - Algiers
• Air Berlin - Berlin-Tegel, Cologne/Bonn, Munich
• Air Europa - Barcelona, Madrid
• Air France - Paris-Charles de Gaulle
• Alitalia - Rome-Fiumicino
• Alitalia operated by Air One - Milan-Malpensa
• AlMasria Universal Airlines - Qassim, Yanbu
• British Airways - London-Heathrow
• Bulgaria Air - Sofia
• Buraq Air - Tripoli
• Cyprus Airways - Larnaca
• Czech Airlines - Prague
• Delta Air Lines - New York-JFK
• El Al - Tel Aviv
• Emirates - Dubai
• Ethiopian Airlines - Addis Ababa, Khartoum
• Etihad Airways - Abu Dhabi
• Gulf Air - Bahrain
• Iberia - Madrid
• Iberworld - Madrid
• Iraqi Airways - Baghdad, Sulaymaniah
• Jat Airways - Belgrade
• Jetairfly - Brussels
• Kenya Airways - Khartoum, Nairobi
• KLM - Amsterdam
• Korean Air - Seoul-Incheon
• Kuwait Airways - Kuwait
• Libyan Airlines - Benghazi, Sebha, Tripoli
• Meridiana operated by Eurofly - Milan-Malpensa
• Middle East Airlines - Beirut
• Nasair - Asmara, Port Sudan
• Olympic Air - Athens
• Oman Air - Muscat
• Qatar Airways - Doha
• Royal Air Maroc - Casablanca
• Royal Jordanian - Amman
• Saudi Arabian Airlines - Abha, Dammam, Jeddah, Medina, Riyadh
• Sudan Airways - Khartoum, Port Sudan
• Sun Air - Khartoum
• Syrian Air - Aleppo, Damascus, Latakia
• TAROM - Bucharest-Otopeni
• Tunis Air - Tunis
• Wataniya Airways - Kuwait
• Yemenia - Aden, Hodeidah, Sana'a, Ta'izz

Terminal 3

• Aegean Airlines - Athens
• Air Sinai - Tel Aviv
• Austrian Airlines - Vienna
• bmi - London-Heathrow
• Continental Airlines - Newark
• EgyptAir - Abu Dhabi, Abu Simbel, Abuja, Accra, Addis Ababa, Aleppo, Alexandria, Algiers, Almaty, Amman, Amsterdam, Asmara, Assiut, Aswan, Athens, Bahrain, Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Barcelona, Beijing-Capital, Beirut, Benghazi, Berlin-Schönefeld, Brussels, Casablanca, Copenhagen, Damascus, Dammam, Doha, Dubai, Dar es Salaam, Düsseldorf, Entebbe, Frankfurt, Geneva, Guangzhou, Hurghada, Istanbul-Atatürk, Jeddah, Johannesburg, Kano, Khartoum, Kuala Lumpur, Kuwait, Lagos, Larnaca, Lisbon, London-Heathrow, Lusaka, Luxor, Madrid, Medina, Milan-Malpensa, Moscow-Domodedovo, Mumbai, Munich, Muscat, Nairobi, New York-JFK, Osaka-Kansai, Paphos, Paris Charles de Gaulle, Riyadh, Rome-Fiumicino, Sana'a, Sharjah, Sharm el-Sheikh, Tokyo-Narita, Tripoli, Tunis, Vienna
• EgyptAir Express - Alexandria, Aswan, Budapest, Catania, Hurghada, Luxor, Malta, Marsa Alam, Mersa Metruh, Sharm el-Sheikh, Sharq Al Owainat, Sohag, Taba
• Lufthansa - Frankfurt
• Lufthansa operated by PrivatAir - Munich
• Singapore Airlines - Dubai, Singapore
• Swiss International Air Lines - Zürich
• Turkish Airlines - Istanbul-Atatürk

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