(TAN): Sharm El-Sheikh International Airport in Egypt is set to receive its first group of tourists from Britain since flights were suspended due to the pandemic. A charter flight by EasyJet will be carrying English tourists to the airport later this week, reported Egypt Independent.
The airport will receive its first tourist flight from Jordan on October 22. Earlier this week a group of Polish tourists also arrived in the airport.
In June, EasyJet had announced that it would resume flights between the UK and Egypt’s Sharm el-Sheikh, after a hiatus of nearly five years.
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In October 2019, the British government cancelled a travel ban to Sharm el-Sheikh airport that had been in effect since 2015, following the crash of a Russian passenger plane in the Sinai Peninsula shortly after take-off, killing all 224 people on board.
On December 19, the first UK flight to Sharm el-Sheikh since the 2015 ban landed at Sharm El-Sheikh International Airport.
Egypt had suspended flights and tourism in March as part of measures to combat the coronavirus outbreak. Egyptian airports restarted operations on July 1, in accordance with Egypt’s preventive and precautionary measures to coexist with the coronavirus.
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This excluded air cargo flights, charter flights only for tourist groups already in Egypt who want to return home, international medical flights and domestic flights.
Beginning September 1, all local and foreign passengers are required to provide a negative Covid-19 test report taken within 72 hours of reaching Egypt.
