British Airways will resume flights to Cairo on Friday after a week of suspension due to alleged security concerns, according to a statement issued by the airline services.
The London-based news network BBC quoted the statement as saying that the flights to the Egyptian capital will restart again following “reviewing security arrangements.”
On July 20, British Airways announced halting lights to Cairo for a week with no further details on the nature of the claimed security issues.
Hours later, the German airlines Lufthansa also cancelled their lights to the Egyptian city but resumed services one day later.
Egypt's Response to British Airways Decision
In response to those acts, EgyptAir executive described the matter as “without a logical reason.”
Moreover, the Egyptian Aviation Minister Younis Al-Masry expressed “displeasure” at the British services' decision.
An estimated 415,000 British nationals visited Egypt in 2018.
Britain canceled flights to Egypt’s Sharm El-Sheikh in 2015 after jihadists bombed a Russian airliner carrying holidaymakers from the Red Sea resort, killing more than 220 people on board.
Successful AFCON 2019 Organization
The British decision was not understood by the Egyptian side; especially it came just one day after finishing successfully the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) hosted by Egypt.
The competition was held from 21 June to 19 July 2019, as per the decision of the CAF Executive Committee on 20 July 2017 to move the Africa Cup of Nations from January/February to June/July for the first time.
It was also the first Africa Cup of Nations expanded from 16 to 24 teams.
The tournament was initially scheduled to be hosted by Cameroon. On 30 November 2018, Cameroon was stripped of hosting the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations due to poor infrastructure, the Boko Haram insurgency and the Anglophone Crisis.
On 8 January 2019, Egypt was chosen by the CAF Executive Committee as the host nation of the competition.
Cameroon squad was eliminated in the round of 16 by Nigeria. The hosts Egypt was eliminated too at the same stage after losing to South Africa.
Algeria defeated Senegal 1–0 in the final, winning their second title and first since 1990, while Nigeria came third after beating Tunisia 1–0 in their third-place play-off match.
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