Cairo: Qatar’s national team arrived on Thursday in Egypt to participate in the 2021 World Men’s Handball Championship, in a sign of a thaw in ties between the two countries, sources said.
The 24-member squad arrived in the Egyptian coastal city of Alexandria on a plane flying from Doha, the sources added.
The plane landed at the Bourj Al Arab airport in Alexandria, the venue for matches of a four-nation group comprising Qatar, Croatia, Japan and Angola .
Qatar will play Angola Friday in the handball tournament that runs until January 31.
On Tuesday, Egypt reopened its airspace for Qatari aircraft, ending a dispute with the Gulf country.
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.