1st Egyptian flight to Moscow to take off Thursday

CAIRO – 6 April 2018: The first Egyptian flight to Moscow will take off from Cairo International Airport on Thursday, April 12, sources told Egypt Today on Friday.

The sources added that Russian flights by Aeroflot Airlines will arrive in Egypt by Wednesday, April 11. The resumption of flights between the two countries comes after a long time of suspension.

On March 12, Russian TASS news agency reported that Russia's Aeroflot will resume regular flights from Moscow to Cairo on April 11.

A source close to the talks between the two countries told the Russian news agency that Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport and Aeroflot signed a service agreement with EgyptAir, Egypt’s flag carrier airline, on providing security services at Cairo International Airport.

The Russian authorities had previously stated that flights between Cairo and Moscow would resume in late March or early April, according to Sputnik.

In October 2015, Russia suspended civilian air traffic to Egypt after a bomb was detonated on a Russian charter plane over Sharm el-Sheikh, killing all 224 people on board. Russia qualified the incident as a terrorist attack.

Since the crash, Egypt has been implementing new, tighter security measures at all of its airports to meet the Russian demands necessary for the resumption of flights, with multiple visits from Russian security delegations to observe changes implemented by the government.