NEWSROOM (ADV) – The commercial flights between Egypt and the United States will resume since January 2019 after more than three years of suspension, official MENA news agency quoted a U.S. official as saying on Tuesday.
U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen made the remarks in a meeting with Egypt’s Civil Aviation Minister Younis al-Masry on Tuesday, after she lauded the security measures taken at Egyptian airports over the past few years.
Washington suspended cargo flights coming from Egypt in November 2015, a few days after a Russian plane crash in late October 2015 in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula killed all the 224 people on board and Russian investigations proved it was done by a bomb hidden inside the plane.
The crash was later claimed by regional IS militant group.
The two ministers also tackled a number of issues of mutual concern regarding air transport industry, and agreed to develop a relevant memorandum of understanding signed between Cairo and Washington in 1997.
Nielsen called for continuing bilateral coordination and cooperation to confront challenges facing air transport industry all over the world.
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