New York → Cairo flights

Target $261–$303 for JFK–Cairo; flexibility can save $116

Key takeaways

• Median fare is $303, based on 30 daily snapshots of the cheapest cached fares on this route.
• Bottom-quartile travelers paid $261 or less — a realistic target if you have schedule flexibility.
• The price floor hit $187, though that represents an outlier; don't anchor your plans to it.
• Spread of 84% between low and high ($187–$345) signals meaningful volatility — this route rewards active monitoring.
• Top-quartile fares reached $341–$345, close to the ceiling, so waiting too long carries real cost risk.

30-day price trend

See full numbers and stats on the JFK → CAI price history page.

The full picture

The JFK–Cairo route shows a wide pricing band — an 84% spread between the observed low ($187) and high ($345) across 30 daily snapshots. That kind of volatility is actually useful information: it confirms this isn't a fixed-price corridor, and travelers who track fares over several weeks have a genuine opportunity to land meaningfully below the $303 median. The interquartile range of $261 to $341 is the more actionable signal. If you can get to $261 or below, you're in the bottom quarter of observed prices; anything above $341 is top-quartile territory and worth pushing back on.

On booking timing, the data doesn't capture departure-date granularity, so we can't pinpoint a precise advance-purchase sweet spot with precision. That said, transatlantic routes to the Middle East and North Africa generally see fares soften in the 4–8 week window before departure, with sharper increases inside 14 days as remaining inventory thins. Given the $303 median and a p75 of $341, travelers who wait until the final two weeks are more likely to land in the upper quartile than below the median. Setting a fare alert around $270 — splitting the difference between median and p25 — is a reasonable trigger for a confident purchase.

No dominant carrier was identifiable from this dataset, so we can't point to one airline driving the low-end fares. Routing options on JFK–Cairo typically involve one stop, and the specific connection hub often determines both price and travel time; it's worth checking a few itinerary structures rather than defaulting to the first result. One honest caveat: 30 snapshots reflect cached fares at a single moment each day and may not capture flash sales or last-minute inventory drops. The $187 floor, while real, should be treated as a data point rather than a planning assumption.

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