Thomas Cook’s flights to Sharm halted, resumed to Marsa Alam

CAIRO – 12 May 2017: Thomas Cook has removed Sharm el-Sheikh from its Winter 2017/2018 holiday and flight programs, according to an update posted on the Thomas Cook official webpage. The webpage attributed the cancellation to consistent reports by the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office that discourage travel flights to the Sharm El Sheikh airport.

Thomas Cook, the biggest travel agency in UK, added that it has no plans to reintroduce a travel program to Sharm unless the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office's starts encouraging the resuming of flights.

The statement clarified that the five-flights-per-week program which it had scheduled for this winter has now been cancelled, adding that it is contacting those customers who had booked with them to offer a refund or a destination change free of charge.

The agency did announce, however, that trips to a Hurghada resort on the Red Sea will resume. According to the agency's website, Hurghada is immensely popular among Thomas Cook's clientele and that agency will be beginning a two-flights-per-week program to Hurghada's Marsa Alam resort in November to accommodate a burgeoning market demand.