Hours after Germany’s Foreign Ministry urged all travelers to avoid visiting the Sinai Peninsula, Lufthansa announced that it would stop all flights to the Red Sea resort town of Sharm El-Sheikh. The suspension of flights by Europe’s largest airline also includes its subsidiaries, Eurowings and Edelweiss, said a statement released by the airline. According to AFP, the suspension comes after fears that the Russian plane crash which killed 224 people in Egypt’s North Sinai was caused by a bomb. Earlier on Thursday, United Kingdom Prime Minister David Cameron said a bomb “more likely than not” caused the Russian plane to crash. “We cannot be certain that the Russian airliner was brought down by a terrorist bomb, but it looks increasingly likely that that was the case,” said Prime Minister Cameron. The Prime Minister’s comments came a day after the United Kingdom suspended all flights to and from Sharm El-Sheikh due to potential terrorist activity. “We have concluded that there is a significant possibility that the crash was caused by an explosive device on board the aircraft,” said the United Kingdom Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond on the same day Egyptian President Abdel Fattah…
Germans Urged to Avoid Egypt’s Sinai as Europe’s Largest Airline Suspends Flights
November 5, 2015
