Russia has resumed direct flights to Egypt, the 1st two years and a half flight of "Aeroflot" began the flight from Sheremetyevo to Cairo, from the data of the online scoreboard air Harbor.

Board SU400 went to Egypt at 21: 05 GMT. The press service of the airline told that it will fly about 120 passengers.

Egyptian flag carrier EgyptAir has scheduled 1st flight to the Russian capital on 12 April.

The decision to restore direct flights between Russia and Egypt was preceded by the big work on strengthening of the precautions. So, in 2016 Russia sent to the Arab country in several groups of experts to check the airports.

in may 2017, it was announced that Cairo has fulfilled almost all the requirements of the Russian capital.

in early winter, the head of the Ministry of transport of Russia Maxim Sokolov and the head of the Ministry of civil aviation Arab Republic of Egypt Sherif Fahti signed a Protocol on cooperation in the field of civil aviation, after which the decree of the President of the Russian Federation on restoration of periodic flights between the countries.

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