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British Airways, Easy Jet Cancel All Flights to Sharm El-Sheikh Until January

November 25, 2015
Egyptian army soldiers stand guard next to the luggage and belongings of passengers of the A321 Russian airliner piled up at the site of the crash (Credit: AP)

By Hend Kortam, Aswat Masriya British Airways said on Tuesday that all flights to and from Sharm El-Sheikh are cancelled until Jan. 14, while the budget airliner EasyJet is cancelling flights to and from the Egyptian resort until Jan. 6. The UK’s flag carrier said in a statement on its website that the decision comes, “as a result of Government advice not to carry any further customers to Sharm el Sheikh.” The British government put in place a set of security measures to repatriate Britons from Sharm to the UK until Nov. 17, and as of Nov. 18, it advised against “all but essential travel by air to or from Sharm el Sheikh.” It is still unclear how the British decision will affect Egypt’s struggling tourism sector, especially with over 900,000 British nationals visiting Egypt annually. The British decision came in the aftermath of the Russian passenger flight crash in the Sinai desert in October, killing all 224 passengers on board. The incident triggered a slew of suspicions in local and international media surrounding the sufficiency of security measures adopted in Egyptian airports, especially after the UK entertained the possibility that…


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