Dummy ticket (flight reservation) for Egypt visa: the e-Visa and your itinerary

What the Egypt checklist asks for

• A travel itinerary showing how you arrive in and leave Egypt.
• Hotel bookings for your stay, or details of the places you plan to visit.
• An e-Visa that matches the trip: single entry for one visit, multiple entry if you will leave and come back.
• Travel dates that keep each stay within the period your e-Visa allows.
• An application made on visa2egypt.gov.eg, the official portal.

What the official e-Visa FAQ asks for

Egypt’s e-Visa portal answers the itinerary question in its own FAQ. Among the requirements for entry it lists “Travel itinerary”, and for tourist trips it adds “Hotel bookings or details of places you plan to visit”. Those are the words to work from, and they are more measured than many agency checklists.

Note what is missing: the FAQ does not say “return ticket” or “confirmed ticket”. An itinerary is a plan of your flights, and a genuine airline reservation in your name, held without payment, documents that plan exactly. A fabricated PDF does not. It is document fraud, and it is the one thing that can turn a simple e-Visa into a serious problem.

Fees and visa types in 2026

The official FAQ now gives the tourist e-Visa fee as US$30 for a single entry and US$65 for multiple entries. Many guides still quote US$25 and US$60; those figures are superseded. Secondary sources say each entry allows a stay of up to 30 days.

Choose single entry if you fly in and out once. If your route leaves Egypt and comes back, for example a few days in a neighbouring country before flying home from Cairo, you need multiple entry, and your reservation should show the second arrival.

Visa on arrival is reported to be available to Indians holding a valid and used US, UK or Schengen visa, paid at an airport bank counter. The official wording on which visas qualify is ambiguous, so the e-Visa is the safer choice for most Indian travellers.

Timing your reservation with the e-Visa

The e-Visa is typically decided within 24 to 72 hours, though some accounts say the portal allows up to seven days. The airline may release an unpaid hold sooner than either, so order the reservation on the day you apply on visa2egypt.gov.eg and check the names and dates before you submit. Put the same arrival and departure dates on the e-Visa form, the reservation, the hotel booking and your travel insurance.

If you are applying for a sticker visa at the Embassy in New Delhi or the Consulate in Mumbai instead, order the reservation for the day you hand in the application, or the evening before at most. Expect the hold to lapse before the mission decides; the reservation documents your plan on the day you submit.

Flying to Cairo from India and the Gulf

EgyptAir flies to Cairo from Delhi and Mumbai, and Gulf carriers connect the rest of India through Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Sharjah. For Indians living in the UAE, EgyptAir, Emirates, flydubai, Air Arabia and Etihad all fly to Cairo, so the reservation can start from the UAE.

If you add a few days in Dubai on the way, remember that the UAE leg needs its own visa, and that airlines in India check UAE visit-visa passengers for a confirmed return ticket. Put both legs on one reservation so the Egypt and UAE dates agree.

Flying from India to Egypt

Your reservation should follow a route you could realistically fly. These are common options; schedules change, so the desk confirms what is bookable for your dates.

Mistakes to avoid with a Egypt application

• Paying the old US$25 fee quoted by out-of-date guides; the official FAQ now shows US$30.
• Applying on an unofficial site instead of visa2egypt.gov.eg.
• Choosing a single-entry e-Visa for a route that leaves and re-enters Egypt.
• Hotel dates that stop a night before your return flight.
• Counting on visa on arrival with a US, UK or Schengen visa that has never been used.
• Paying for a ‘mandatory’ travel agent guarantee letter that no official page asks for.

Dummy ticket and hotel bookings, matched to your itinerary

We do not send one loose document. The desk matches the flight reservation and every hotel booking to your itinerary: the same dates, the same cities, and no night left uncovered. These are the real documents of one order for a Switzerland visa file, issued on 5 November 2026: one flight reservation and four hotel bookings that cover all 9 nights between the two flights. Personal details are blacked out; everything else is as issued.

• Flight reservationEtihad, Hyderabad (HYD) to Zurich (ZRH), status Confirmed
• Hotel booking, ZurichMEININGER Hotel Zürich Greencity, 3 nights
• Hotel booking, GenevaB&B HOTEL Geneva Airport, 3 nights
• Hotel booking, LucerneSeminarhotel Romerohaus, 2 nights
• Hotel booking, Zurich AirportLeonardo Hotel Zurich Airport, 1 night

Open the full documents and the day-by-day table: flight and hotels matched date by date

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