Egyptair launches Athens route from Alexandria

Egyptair Express has launched its second route to the Greek capital Athens (ATH) after the airline’s mainline operations from Cairo. The Star Alliance airline now flies twice-weekly from Alexandria Borg El Arab (HBE) with 76-seat E-170 aircraft as of 16 December. The two cities were last connected by Olympic Air and its predecessors, which used Alexandria’s El Nouza Airport for its operations between 1985 and 2010.

EgyptAir resumes flights to Tripoli

CAIRO - Egypt's national airliner EgyptAir resumed its flights to the Libyan capital of Tripoli on Thursday, after seven months of suspension due to the Libyan war, an airport source said.

The Cairo-Tripoli flight took off from the Cairo International Airport with 82 passengers aboard, said the source with the airport. The company will have 11 flights to Libya every week.

Egypt resumed its flights to the Libyan city of Benghazi on November 1. But its service to Tripoli was postponed due to the maintenance work at the Tripoli airport.

EgyptAir resumes flights to Benghazi on 5 November

National carrier announces resumption of flights from Cairo to Libya's second city after seven-month stoppage.

EgyptAir will resume flights from Cairo to Benghazi on 5 November following a gap of seven months caused by Libya's civil war, the chairman of the national carrier's holding company said on Thursday.

Chairman Masoud Al Hussein said the airline will provide four services a week -- on Saturday, Monday, Tuesday and Thursday -- from the Egyptian capital to Libya's second city. 

Flights to Tripoli are still some way off, EgyptAir added, citing Libyan Civil Aviation Authority reports that the Libyan capital's main airport is undergoing extensive repairs after being badly damaged during August's fighting.

Egypt Air to resume flights into Lusaka

ZAMBIA and Egypt are engaged in talks on the possibility of EgyptAir resuming a direct flight between Lusaka and Cairo following the suspension of flights on the route.
Egypt Air operated seven flights into Lusaka from January 17 - 28, 2011 after the inaugural flight launch.
Egyptian ambassador to Zambia Salah El Sadek said discussions are currently underway with the Government to restart the route.
“This is an issue I hope will be resolved with the new changes in the new Government, we have had some challenges within, we are now in contact to try to resume the operations of the airline which already worked seven flights to Lusaka from 17 to 28 January, but ironically the revolution also happened in our country,” he said.
Mr El Sadek said this in an interview in Lusaka on Wednesday last week.
He said apart from the revolution challenge in that country, there were some internal ones within Zambia.
“I don’t want to use the words that we were chased out.., I must say we faced some challenges and we are discussing it now with the new government hoping to reach a decision soon and start operating in the country,” he said.
He said once the flights resume; it will boost trade between the two countries and contribute significantly to tourism development.
Meanwhile, a delegation from Egypt that visited Zambia recently is impressed with the economic stability of the country.
 He said Egyptian investors are interested to explore further investments opportunities in key sectors of the economy.
“We are expecting more investors here although we have challenges until the elections (in Egypt),” he said.

EgyptAir lags behind Jordanian, Libyan airlines

EgyptAir's business declined in the North Africa region after facing stiff competition from Jordanian and Libyan airlines. Two factors leading to the lost business is the fact that Jordanian Airlines is transporting Gazan pilgrims from Al Arish Airport to Jeddah and Libyan airlines is carrying passengers from Cairo to Benghazi.Ticket prices for a Cairo to Jeddah flights can be as much as 5,000 EGP (U.S. $837.50) while other airliners offer tickets at half that prices, sources claim.