Tui to resume selling Sharm El Sheikh holiday packages next week, to allow travel from February 2020: Tui, the UK’s biggest holiday firm, plans to resume selling holiday packages to Sharm El Sheikh, which will be available within three months, the Independent reports. Tui flights and holidays are set to go back on sale on 7 November, which will allow customers to travel starting from February 2020. Initial flights will depart from Gatwick, Manchester and Birmingham. We had recently reported that the company intended to resume flights next summer.

This comes just days after UK lifts its four-year ban on flights to Sharm El Sheikh: Tui UK’s director of product and destination experience called Sharm El Sheikh a “hugely popular destination.” The news comes just ten days after the UK lifted its four-year ban on flights to Sharm El Sheikh, introduced after the downing of a Russian airliner in 2015. Some half a mn British holidaymakers travelled to resorts in Sinai in 2014, but operators have reportedly faced difficulties in fully capitalizing on the high demand for flights, thanks to the timing of the Foreign Office announcement. Tui has also faced challenges in restoring links because of the continued grounding of the Boeing 737 Max, following two fatal crashes.