EgyptAir to operate 3rd-weekly commercial flight to Moscow

CAIRO – 26 December 2017: Chairman and CEO of EgyptAir Holding Company, Safwat Musallam, stated on Monday that a third-weekly passenger service from EgyptAir to Moscow will start operating next February.

"There will be also 20 flights to the Egyptian fans to attend the world cup, in accordance with the agreed security measures between the two sides," said Musallam to Flight and Space.

"The company seeks to cover most of the African states after the arrival of the Boeing’s (B737-800) Next Generation airliner to Cairo International Airport and the purchase of nine (B737-800) airliners during 2018 to 2020," added Musallam.

EgyptAir occupied an advanced ranking in the recent report of the British agency OAG, to be one of the most accurate airlines in operating on-time flights in October 2017.

“EgyptAir is ranked as the 31st among the best 50 airlines in the world, for its accuracy in operating on-time flights,” chief of EgyptAir's flights, Sherif Ezzat, stated Thursday, revealing that EgyptAir's accuracy reached 86.7 percent for the 6,266 flights that were operated in October 2017.

Ezzat expressed his happiness with the ranking, saying that the national airline of Egypt was in competition with the top airlines in the Middle East and the whole world; thus the company honored the control officers for their efforts in operating flights on time.

The evaluation depended on the accuracy of arrival and departure times, which EgyptAir is attempting to raise to 90 percent in the upcoming period, according to Ezzat.