Hurghada is the oldest seaside resort in Egypt. It was after the military brought fresh water to the deserted coast during the Israeli war, and tourism began in this country. Now Hurghada is on everyone's hearing. This city is surrounded by satellites: El Gouna, Safaga, Makadi and Soma Bay. Together with them, the resort is more than a hundred kilometers of luxury hotels, stretching in a chain along the shores of the Red Sea. Hurghada is worthy of competition to Sharm El Sheikh, another resort in Egypt. Only it is located not on the African continent, but on the Sinai Peninsula of Asia. Tourists will probably be interested to know how long it takes to get to the resort from Russia. Below you will find relevant information about the flight Moscow - Hurghada.
What to fly?
The main passenger flow to the resorts of Egypt falls in the summer. During this period, you can get to the resort on your own, without resorting to travel agencies. Indeed, two or three regular flights departing from Sheremetyevo Airport daily on the route Moscow - Hurghada. They are carried out by Transaero Airlines. From Domodedovo Airport you can also get to Hurghada. But regular flights do not run on Monday and Friday. In addition to them, numerous charters are sent to the popular resort of Egypt . And not only from Moscow. There is no need at all to get from your hometown to the capital in order to catch a plane to Hurghada. But at other times of the year you can get to the resort only by charter flights. Or with transfers in Istanbul or Cairo, which significantly increases the travel time.
Price issue
How much is a regular flight Moscow - Hurghada ticket? Since the choice of airlines is limited to only one monopolist - Transaero - it will not be difficult to answer this question. The average price is fourteen and a half thousand rubles. However, the cost of tickets varies in one direction or another, depending on the dates of purchase and departure. It is best to purchase tickets more than a month before the planned trip. So you can pay for the place on the plane only thirteen thousand rubles. The most expensive tickets - with a departure in the afternoon of Friday. And if they are also bought a week or two before the trip, then their cost can reach sixteen thousand rubles. If you are not tied to a specific date, select a mid-week morning flight on the day of departure. With an early purchase, the price of such a ticket will be only eleven thousand rubles. By connecting flights, the price automatically increases. Via Istanbul to Turkish Airlines - from 14,796 rubles. and through Cairo to Egypt Air - from nineteen thousand rubles.
Travel time
There is no way to answer this question in monosyllables. It all depends on a large number of various factors: the power of cars, the load on the air corridor, airport of departure, and even the direction of the wind. And if you fly by connecting flights, then add to this the waiting time at transit airports. For example, the Moscow-Hurghada road through Cairo or Istanbul will take more than eight hours. But even on a direct flight, you need to add to the time of the flight three hours for registration and passing passport, as well as customs, control at the airports of departure and landing. Security control in Moscow and waiting for baggage in Hurghada can also take a few tedious minutes from passengers. So we recommend that you arrive at the airport of departure for two and a half, or even three, hours before the time indicated on the ticket.
Moscow-Hurghada: flight time
The distance between the two cities is slightly less than three thousand two hundred kilometers. To overcome it, modern liners require about four and a half hours. Now consider the factors that can accelerate or, conversely, slow down the flight time. The first is the type of machine. For regular flights, Transaero provides the Boeing 747-400 for the Hurghada-Moscow route. Charters serve less powerful airbuses for their passengers. And even more so, the flight time increases or decreases depending on the city of departure. Five and a half hours fly from St. Petersburg, and only three from Mineralnye Vody. But here we are talking about Moscow. The second factor is the airport of departure. Four and a half hours will have to fly from Sheremetyevo, and fifteen minutes less from Domodedovo. The third factor is “clear sky”. The fewer planes are in one air corridor, the less often ground controllers advise the pilot to turn off a direct flight. And finally, weather conditions. Headwind can slow down the progress of the aircraft for half an hour.
Moscow-Hurghada: flight map
An important factor in calculating the time on board is the route. Even those passengers who are in no hurry are interested in which countries are sailing under the wing of an airplane. Usually flights to Hurghada follow two routes. To the south-west of Moscow cross Ukraine with the Crimea, the Black Sea, Turkey (from the portholes you can clearly see the resort of Alanya) and the island of Cyprus. So you have to fly for four hours with a little. If you follow through Syria, Israel and Saudi Arabia, then the travel time increases by thirty minutes.