The Government gave approval for flights to resume after a day of intense negotiations with Egyptian leaders and the airlines.
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In the wake of the Russian plane crash over the Sinai last week, the British government announced Wednesday it will suspend all flights in and out of Sharm el-Sheikh’s airport.
Lufthansa said that Edelweiss and Eurowings, its newly expanded low-priced carrier, had been planning to fly to Sharm twice a week.
Sharm has been a sun, sea “n” sand oasis in the midst of Middle Eastern turbulence, but, even though the Foreign Office isn’t changing its travel advice for the resort itself, clearly even it isn’t immune to the instability rocking the region.
Egypt’s tourism industry is reeling from suggestions that a bomb may have brought down a Russian plane that crashed shortly after taking off from the popular holiday resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.
“One English family, who are obviously upset and concerned, have asked the hotel if they can stay on”.
Airport sources said the promotion would come into effect on November 6 and was not connected to the crash. “We brought it around God’s assistance, yet we are under no commitment to uncover the component we utilized”, IS member Sinai Province said in a sound proclamation circling on online networking on Wednesday.
United Kingdom investigators looking at what caused a Russian airliner to crash in Egypt believe a bomb was put in the hold prior to take-off, the BBC has learned. There were a total of about a dozen United Kingdom staff at the airport, including military personnel, security experts and consular staff, and that was expected to increase to 35 on Friday, the United Kingdom said.
All 224 people on board were killed when the plane that was en-route to St Petersburg from Sharm el-Sheikh came down in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula on Saturday, October 31. US President Barack Obama told a CBS radio station that he thought there was “a possibility” that there was a bomb on the brought down plane.
The Times examines how Sharm el-Sheikh had been a small pocket of security in that part of Egypt due to a “ring of steel” – a 12-mile fence – thrown around it after bombings in 2005.
“There are a relatively simple and straightforward set of things that need to happen at Sharm el-Sheikh airport to give us greater certainty of safety”, he added.
“That will be returned separately and that will be repatriated to them in due course. Without going into too much of the information that we have received and had before, we think this is one of the ways of making sure the people who are returning are safe”.
Mr McLoughlin indicated that although the airport was inspected 10 months ago, different measures were needed now.
Travel agent association Abta has estimated there are at least 9,000 Britons on holiday at the resort and advised passengers who were stranded or were booked to go in the next few days to contact their tour operator.
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Another couple from Aberdeenshire are facing more time out at the resort with the flights cancelled, and are still waiting for information about when they can arrive home.
