Cairo – (Masaader News)
Britain’s second-biggest holiday firm Thomas Cook cancelled all holidays to Sharm El Sheikh for the next two seasons because the UK Governments’ step of banning British airlines from flying from the Red Sea airport until a team of security experts is satisfied with the standards in place
This will make Egypt’s battered tourism industry suffer another blow, as reported by The Independent.
The ban was brought in five days after a crash in October 2015: 224 people died when their Metrojet charter flight from Sharm El Sheikh to St Petersburg in Russia crashed in the Sinai desert. It is thought that a bomb was placed on board at the Egyptian airport.
Thomas Cook first took holidaymakers to Egypt in 1859. In common with other tour operators, the firm has been practising so-called “rolling cancellations” to Sharm El Sheikh over the past 18 months: putting holidays and flights on sale in the hope that the UK flight ban will be lifted, then cancelling them well ahead of departure when it has remained in place.
There is no warning against travel to Sharm El Sheikh itself, just to the airport.
The Foreign Office says: “We will continue working with the Egyptian Authorities to enable regular flights between the UK and Sharm El Sheikh to resume.
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