FILE- MP Sahar Talaat Mostafa
CAIRO – 18 December 2017: Parliament’s Tourism and Civil Aviation Committee held a meeting on Monday headed by MP Sahar Talaat Mostafa to listen to the civil aviation minister about developing airports.
The meeting discussed the ministry’s efforts in operating and developing Egyptian airports and achieving balance and integration in air traffic among all airports to serve the national projects.
Civil Aviation Minister Sherif Fathy discussed his plan to achieve Egypt’s economic targets as well as the latest development in the resumption of direct Russian flights after signing an agreement with the Russian transport minister on Friday.
An Egyptian-Russian cooperation protocol in maintaining civil aviation security was signed Friday after a meeting between Fathy and Russian Transport Minister Maksim Sokolov in Moscow, Egypt’s aviation ministry said in a statement.
The protocol intends to resume flights between Cairo and Moscow starting February 2018, for the first time since 2015, the statement added.
Fathy traveled to Moscow on Thursday to discuss and sign the protocol with his Russian counterpart.
“Russian tour operators will be free to resume flights between the two countries starting February 2018,” Fathy told Egypt Today.
Last week, Sokolov announced that Cairo International Airport has satisfied all the Russian requirements for aviation security, which paves the way for Russian flights to resume their activities in Egypt.
Flights between the two countries were halted in 2015 after a Russian passenger jet crashed in Sinai, killing all 224 people on board.
Shortly after the crash, the Islamic State’s Sinai branch claimed responsibility for the incident, which occurred in the vicinity of the Sinai insurgency led by IS affiliates following the ouster of former Islamist President Mohamed Morsi.
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