Exceptional Flights
The flight is within an air bridge operated by Egypt to bring home 3,000 citizens stuck in Qatar through Oman, where they arrive on an Omani airline. Those are carried daily to the Egyptian capital on 2 two flights operated by EgyptAir and Air Cairo.
Emirates plans to operate four flights between Dubai and Cairo on June 14, 18, 19 and 21, state news agency WAM reported Thursday.
The Kuwaiti civil aviation authority announced on Thursday that 3,682 Egyptians stranded in Kuwait left the country on their way back to their homeland via 21 flights.
The plane landed in the airport on Thursday evening, coming from the Emirati capital, Abu Dhabi.
This is the third exceptional plane to arrive from Muscat, a source at the airport said.
Since the crisis started, a total of 36 flights have brought back Egyptians from Kuwait, the embassy added in a statement on Wednesday.
The arrivals were tested for coronavirus and have been placed in quarantine for 14 days.
A total of 311 Egyptians stranded in Canada arrived at Marsa Alam International Airport Wednesday aboard an exceptional EgyptAir flight as part of thousands of expats who returned to Egypt with the help of the government.
A source at the airport said the preventive medicine teams have carried out the sterilization process required.
All the passengers would undergo the necessary preventive procedures, including being tested for the novel coronavirus and being quarantined for two weeks once they arrive at the airport, the source noted.
Two exceptional flights carrying 288 stranded Egyptian citizens from four countries landed in Marsa Alam International Airport, in the southeast of Egypt, as Egypt has worked to repatriate all expatriates who are willing to return amid the coronavirus cri
Egypt's Embassy in Maldives said Friday a flight would be operate on April 30 to repatriate the Egyptians, stranded in the country after suspending the international flights due to the outbreak of coronavirus globally.
Two exceptional flights took off from the Egyptian capital Cairo to the Iraqi capital Baghdad, evacuating 324 Iraqi nationals over coronavirus.
Saudi Arabia will extend visas of Egyptians who were unable to leave the Kingdom, through the electronic services of Absher and Muqeem, as Saudi Arabia confirmed a total of 900 coronavirus cases by Wednesday and two deaths.
