New York → Cairo flights

Target $396 or less for New York–Cairo flights

Key takeaways

• Median fare sits at $396, based on 30 daily snapshots of the cheapest available cached fares.
• The bottom quartile (p25) starts at $307 — fares at or below that level represent genuine deals worth acting on quickly.
• The spread between low ($304) and high ($415) is 37% — wide enough that timing your search meaningfully affects what you pay.
• 75% of observed fares fell at or below $403, so anything above that threshold is above the typical range for this route.
• The floor of $304 shows competitive pricing is achievable, but it appeared in fewer than 25% of snapshots — don't count on it.

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 37% price spread across 30 days of fare snapshots, which is large enough to matter. Most fares clustered between $307 (p25) and $403 (p75), a range of roughly $96, with a median of $396. That tight clustering near the top of the interquartile range suggests that very low fares are relatively rare — the $304 floor is real but appeared infrequently. If your budget ceiling is around $400, you're shopping in the heart of the distribution and shouldn't need to wait long. If you're targeting sub-$320 fares, be prepared to monitor regularly and move fast when a dip appears.

On booking timing, the data doesn't capture departure dates directly, but a spread this wide on a long-haul transatlantic-plus route typically reflects fare-class availability shifting as seats fill. For a flight of this distance (roughly 12+ hours, with a likely stop in Europe or the Middle East), carriers tend to release competitive fares 6–10 weeks out and pull them back as the cabin fills. Checking fares in that window — rather than last-minute — gives you the best shot at landing in the lower quartile.

No single dominant carrier is identifiable from this dataset, so it's worth running searches across multiple booking platforms to catch codeshare pricing differences, which on this routing (common one-stop itineraries via European or Gulf hubs) can vary noticeably by connecting carrier. One honest caveat: 30 snapshots capture a single rolling window and may not reflect seasonal demand shifts — fares to Cairo can move around major Egyptian holidays, European school breaks, and Ramadan travel periods, none of which are visible in this dataset alone.

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