Los Angeles → Cairo flights

LAX–Cairo fares cluster near $394 — watch for the $300 outlier

Key takeaways

• $394 median across the tracked window — a reasonable budget anchor for this route
• Bottom quartile sits at $390, meaning most observed fares cluster tightly near the median rather than dipping much lower
• $300 low stands out as a clear outlier against a $390–$410 band holding most other fares
• 37% spread between low and high — wider than it first appears, driven almost entirely by that one low fare
• Only 12 snapshots sampled, so this read is directional, not a statistically deep trend

30-day price trend

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The full picture

The data shows a fairly narrow core: the 25th-to-75th percentile range is just $390 to $410, with a median of $394. That tight clustering suggests that on most days, shoppers searching LAX to Cairo will see prices in a fairly predictable band rather than wild day-to-day swings. The headline 37% spread is real, but it's being driven almost entirely by a single low fare of $300 — without that outlier, the observed range would look far tighter.

With only 12 snapshots in this sample, we can't responsibly claim a seasonal pattern or pinpoint an ideal booking window within the calendar. What we can say is that if a fare near or below $390 appears, it's sitting at or below the bottom quartile of what's been observed — a reasonable signal to act rather than wait, since most fares in this dataset held closer to $400-$410. Conversely, fares above $410 would be pushing past everything seen in this window.

We don't have enough visibility into carrier identity or day-of-week patterns in this dataset to make claims about a dominant airline or specific weekday effects on this route — international long-haul itineraries like LAX–Cairo often involve connections through European or Gulf hubs, and pricing can be more sensitive to the operating carrier's fare class availability than to simple booking-timing tricks. The honest caveat here is sample size: 12 days of cached fares is a thin slice, and the $300 low fare could be a genuine deal or a data artifact (e.g., a one-off error fare or a different routing). Treat the $390–$410 band as the reliable expectation, and treat anything near $300 as a pleasant surprise rather than a predictable target.

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