By Nawal Sayed
CAIRO, Jan. 26 (SEE) – EgyptAir started
operating its first domestic flight on Saturday from the newly inaugurated
Sphinx International Airport (SPX) as part of a trial operation of the
airport, which is the part of the government's plan to stimulate tourism
to the country.
Saturday’s flight was one of 30 flights
scheduled to run by state airliner EgyptAir from 25 January to 9 February from
Sphinx to the domestic airports of Sharm El-Sheikh, Hurghada, Luxor, and
Aswan
“Flights
are fully booked, particularly the flights going to Luxor and Aswan due to
their wonderful weather in winter,” an official at the airport said.
The Sphinx International Airport offers low
price flight tickets in comparison to the Cairo International Airport.
The Sphinx airport is located near the
Cairo-Alexandria desert road, serving near regions such as Giza, Al Haram and 6
October City, Faiyum and Beni Suef. It aims to alleviate pressure on Cairo
International Airport, which is located in eastern Cairo
Being located near touristic places like the
Pyramids of Giza and the under-construction Grand Egyptian Museum, set to open
in 2020, the airport will grasp people’s attraction towards one-day tours.
Construction work on the new airport started in
2017 by the Egyptian Consultancy Company with a budget of EGP 300 million.
The Minister of Civil Aviation Younes El-Masry
and the Minister of Tourism Rania Al-Mashat attended the ceremony to launch the
flight from Sphinx to the popular South Sinai resort of Sharm El-Sheikh.
El-Masry said that 2019 will witness a
breakthrough in the civil aviation industry through the construction of new
airports in the New Administrative Capital, which is located 45 kilometers east
of Cairo and the resort town of Berenice in Marsa Allam’s on the Red Sea in
South in south Egypt.
The airport has a 975 square meter departure
hall and a 1,100 square meter arrival hall. It also has a VIP hall.
The new airport is equipped with state-of-the-art
technology in air traffic control and automatic landing systems and security
systems such as x-ray explosive detectors and high end CCTV and thermal
surveillance cameras.
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