Cairo: Qatar’s national carrier has announced restarting its flights to Egypt on January 18, as the two countries has decided to resume air travel between them.
Qatar Airways has said it will resume its services to Egypt with a flight to Cairo on January 18, to be followed by a flight to Alexandria, Egypt’s second biggest city, on January 25.
The airline added on its Twitter account that its flights to Egypt will start with a daily service to Cairo and twice weekly flights to Alexandria.
Egypt Tuesday announced reopening its airspace to Qatari flights, signalling an end to a crisis of more than three years.
Cairo: EgyptAir will operate its flight to Qatar on January 18 after resuming air travel with the Gulf country, the national carrier’s chief has said.
Egypt Tuesday announced reopening its airspace to Qatari flights, signalling an end to a dispute of more than three years.
EgyptAir will fly daily to Qatar, in addition to four flights a week from the Bourj Al Arab airport in the Egyptian coastal city of Alexandria, head of the airline Rushdy Zakaria said Tuesday night.
He added that the carrier could increase flights depending on demand. In the beginning, there will be a daily flight. Then, the number of flights will gradually increase as demand rises, he said.
COVID-19: Flights to repatriate Egyptians from Saudi Arabia Ramadan Al Sherbini, Correspondent
Cairo: Egypt’s national carrier, EgyptAir, has said it will fly to Saudi Arabia to bring back home Egyptians stranded there amid travel restrictions prompted by the global coronavirus outbreak.
Saudi Arabia Monday extended suspension of international flights for one more week as part of measures to prevent the spread of a new strain of COVID-19.
However, the Saudi General Authority of Civil Aviation has allowed airlines operating in the kingdom to operate flights to transport non-Saudi passengers to outside the kingdom.
EgyptAir head Rushdy Zakaria said that the airline will fly to Saudi Arabia to carry Egyptians stranded there. “The planes will fly without any passengers from Cairo to bring back passengers from there after the kingdom has allowed entry of aircraft to carry non-Saudis only,” he said.