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Thursday, 1 February 2018

Another delay in the return of Russian flights?

Another day, another delay in the return of Russian flights? Moscow appears to have pushed plans to resume direct air travel with Cairo to a later date in February. Sources tell Youm7 that Cairo Airport received word of the delay from Russian national flag carrier Aeroflot yesterday, adding that tickets for the flights are not officially on sale yet. The delay has been reflected on the Domodedovo Airport’s website, which now has flights to Cairo scheduled for 20 February instead of 6 February as had been originally planned. Russian officials had said earlier this week that Egypt and Russia must sign an aviation security agreement before direct flights can be restored. Direct flights to Cairo have been on hiatus since late 2015, when a Russian airliner crashed shortly after taking off from Sharm El Sheikh, killing all 224 passengers.

But that’s not stopping the folks at state-owned Sputnik from throwing a bone our way now and again. The images of Cairo they put out yesterday were quite beautiful (if we do say so ourselves).

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