{"id":883251,"date":"2026-06-21T18:46:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T18:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/883251\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T18:46:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T18:46:14","slug":"first-direct-flight-to-cairo-egypt-departs-from-chicago-ohare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/883251\/","title":{"rendered":"First direct flight to Cairo, Egypt, departs from Chicago O&#8217;Hare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first direct flight from Chicago to Cairo, Egypt, took off from O&#8217;Hare International Airport on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The first EgyptAir light from O&#8217;Hare to Cairo left at 10:30 a.m. Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and the Chicago Department of Aviation joined EgyptAir in announcing the new nonstop flight service back in March.<\/p>\n<p>EgyptAir will operate the Chicago to Cairo service three times weekly on Wednesdays, Fridays, and Sundays. Flights from Cairo to O&#8217;Hare will land at 5:15 a.m., and flights from O&#8217;Hare to Cairo will take off at 10:30 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>The route is operated on a 340-seat Airbus A350-900, with 30 business-class seats and 310 economy-class seats.<\/p>\n<p>This makes Chicago the fourth city in North America to be serviced by EgyptAir, after New York, Washington, and Toronto.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first direct flight from Chicago to Cairo, Egypt, took off from O&#8217;Hare International Airport on Sunday. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":464975,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5124],"tags":[128034,960,9249,5386,1818,198885],"class_list":["post-883251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago","tag-cairo","tag-chicago","tag-egypt","tag-il","tag-illinois","tag-o039hare-international-airport"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116789588159134889","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=883251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/464975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=883251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=883251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=883251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}