Air Cairo is scheduled to launch a direct Mombasa–Hurghada service in December, creating a new air link between Kenya’s Coast and Egypt’s Red Sea resort region.
The Egyptian carrier’s flight SM734 is scheduled to make its first Mombasa–Hurghada operation on December 26, 2026, with current timetables showing two weekly services around the launch period. The flight is expected to take about five hours, with the return service operating as SM733.
The route will connect Moi International Airport and Hurghada International Airport without a stop in Nairobi or Cairo, adding another international city pair to Mombasa’s aviation network.
Hurghada is one of Egypt’s principal Red Sea tourism centres, while Mombasa is the main international gateway to Kenya’s Coast. The new service therefore links two established leisure markets directly and gives tour operators in both countries another air connection around which to build itineraries.
Current schedules indicate that Air Cairo will use an Embraer 190 on the route. The initial twice-weekly operation represents a relatively small addition to available capacity, but the opening of the city pair gives the airline a foothold in Kenya’s coastal market and places Mombasa within its wider East African network.
Air Cairo already serves the region, including connections involving Nairobi and Zanzibar, making the Mombasa service part of a broader expansion of links between Egypt and East Africa.
The airline is also displaying Mombasa–Hurghada and Hurghada–Mombasa as bookable city pairs through its own sales channels, providing a stronger indication that the route has moved beyond a purely theoretical schedule listing. Flight times, frequencies and fares remain subject to change as the December operation approaches.
For Mombasa, the addition comes as airlines continue to expand the range of international destinations served directly from the Coast. The route also gives the Kenyan tourism market another connection into Egypt beyond the established Nairobi–Cairo traffic, while opening Hurghada to travellers originating from the Coast.
The first scheduled service is December 26, rather than December 27, although December 27 is also shown as an operating date under the current timetable.
Source : flightsfrom.com
