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The flights were organized by Kuwait Airways, Air Cairo, Air Arabia Egypt, Kuwait Jazeera Airways and FlyEgypt.
EgyptAir, the nation's flag carrier announced, Wedesday, 25 percent discount on its flights from Cairo to Dubai.
The Egyptian Embassy in Berlin announced on Tuesday the resumption of EgyptAir flights from and to Egypt after a nearly four-month hiatus over the novel coronavirus pandemic.
Kuwait's Directorate of Civil Aviation said on Monday 1,075 stranded Egyptians in the Gulf country flew home on board seven flights.
The flights were organized by Kuwait Airways, Air Cairo, Air Arabia Egypt, Kuwait Jazeera Airways and FlyEgypt.
The airport authorities, in coordination with the bodies concerned, have carried out all the precautionary measures that entail conducting sterilization, temperature check up along with maintaining social distancing among passengers.
Roshdy said in a phone-in that the company was ready to carry home more citizens if requested.
Another flight left for the Mediterranean city of Alexandria and ferried 145 Egyptians.
Some 34, 274 stranded Egyptians were repatriated over the past 19 days to the various Egyptian governorates, according to a well-placed Kuwaiti source.
The carrier announced the operation of flights to 17 destinations in Europe, 4 in Africa, 4 in the Middle East, 3 in North America in addition to Guangzhou in China.
The destinations of the flights from July 8 to 14 will include Baghdad, Guangzhou, Geneva, and Copenhagen, .
The stranded Egyptians are from Cairo, Sohag, Assiut, and Luxor, MENA quoted a press statement of the Kuwaiti civil aviation.
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.
Egypt’s Embassy in Baghdad announced Wednesday that two EgyptAir flights are going to be operated to return stranded Egyptians back home on June 15,
The flights are operated by Egyptair, FlyEgypt, AirCairo, Kuwaiti Airways and Jazeera Airways, added the statement.
New airports had been opened over the past years including Sphinx Airport at a cost of EGP 300 million, New Administrative Capital Airport, and Berenice International Airport (EGP 430 million).
Marsa Alam International Airport continues to receive flights carrying Egyptians back home since an air bridge was launched in April.
Marsa Alam International Airport received Friday an exceptional flight carrying 165 Egyptian passengers stranded in Saudi Arabia.
Since the crisis started, a total of 36 flights have brought back Egyptians from Kuwait, the embassy added in a statement on Wednesday.
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