Certainly to get to the city from the airport the easiest way is tho use an shuttle service. Shuttle Direct offers reasonable prices: http://www.shuttledirect.com/en/php/airport_shuttle_direct.php
cars..planes..helicopters..the same way we travel?
in ancheint times if you mean from lower to upper, (in relation to the flow of the Nile) than they used boats, but there were cataracts below upper...