Cairo: 1st Air Cairo flight from Armenia arrive in Sharm el Sheikh airport

Egypt Today
Sept 18 2020
1st Air Cairo flight from Armenia arrive in Sharm el Sheikh airport
CAIRO – : The first flight via Air Cairo coming from Armenia has arrived at Sharm el Sheikh International Airport, carrying 52 passengers, including a media delegation and a number of Armenian tour agents.

Air Cairo is set to operate three flights per week on the same route.

Borg El Arab Airport also received a Wizz Air flight carrying 180 passengers from Milan.

The airline is scheduled to operate three flights per week on the route.

Over the past weeks, Cairo, Sharm el-Sheikh and Hurghada airports have receives thousands of tourists aboard international flights following a long hiatus due to the fear of spread of Coronavirus. 

Earlier in September, the Russian government announced resuming flights with Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and the Maldives, after suspension over the spread of the novel virus, Reuters reported.

A government order published on Thursday showed that the Russian government said it had authorized three flights a week to Cairo, as well as two flights a week to Dubai and to the Maldives’s Velana International Airport.