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Cairo International Airport (CAI)

Cairo, Egypt · ICAO HECA · IATA CAI

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Cairo International Airport (HECA)05R23L05C23C05L23R
Map: OpenStreetMap contributors, captured 20 Oct 2026. North is up and the drawing is simplified. Each runway is labelled at its ends.
Location
Cairo, Egypt
ICAO code
HECA
IATA code
CAI
Elevation
322 ft
Longest runway
13,124 ft (05R/23L)
Runways
3
Size class
Large
Position
30.1115, 31.3967

About HECA

Cairo International Airport (CAI) is a large airport in Cairo, Egypt, with the ICAO code HECA. Its 3 runways are 05R/23L, 05C/23C and 05L/23R. The longest, 05R/23L, is 13,124 ft. All of them have hard surfaces. The OpenStreetMap layout shows 31 gates, 343 taxiway segments, 19 aprons and 13 terminal outlines. In the route snapshot of 14 Oct 2026, 117 airlines have 2,061 routes through HECA. Its most frequent links are Jeddah (JED), Riyadh (RUH) and Medina (MED).

Runways

Runways, longest first
RunwayLengthWidthSurfaceLights
05R / 23L13,124 ft197 ftHardLit
05C / 23C13,123 ft197 ftHardLit
05L / 23R10,827 ft197 ftHardLit

Runway idents and sizes from OurAirports. The runway headings in the source do not always match the idents, so only the idents are shown.

Scheduled routes

Published route data from the snapshot of 14 Oct 2026. These are standing schedules, not live flights, and they can be out of date. Counts are routes in that snapshot.

Airlines flying here

  • EgyptAir MSR845 routes
  • Saudia SVA57 routes
  • Qatar QTR35 routes
  • Turkish THY29 routes
  • Transavia TVF28 routes
  • Air Arabia ABY22 routes
  • Etihad ETD22 routes

Also flying here, shown by airline code: MSC, NIA, NMA, RBG, KNE, FAD, FEG, IYE.

Connected airports

Nearby airports with maps

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Sources: airport and runway data from OurAirports (public domain). Map data from OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Routes from Virtual Radar Server standing data (CC0), snapshot of 14 Oct 2026.