Airline News | Egypt to add more flights from India by 2010-end

As part of its strategy to attract more tourists from India, Egyptian authorities are planning to raise the number of flights between the two countries by the end of this year.

At present, there are three flights between Egypt and India and the plan is to increase it to seven each week.
"We are planning to start operations of the rest of the four flights. Though we hope to start all the four, at least Delhi to Cairo, we expect to start this year," Egyptian Ambassador to India Mohamed Higazy said.

He said the country expects to almost double the number of Indian tourists visiting Egypt to around 1.5 lakhs by the end of this year.

Higazy said discussions are on with private airlines like Jet Airways, Kingfisher and Air India for the service.

PTI/Economic Times