A spokesman for the Domodedovo airport in Moscow, where the Egypt Air flights arrive, confirmed that they received the notice from Rosaviatsi regarding the ban.
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The ban takes effect on Saturday.
A version of this article appears in print on November 15, 2015 of The Himalayan Times.
“Roughly three million Russian tourists came to Egypt in 2014, almost a third of all visitors, with most heading to the resorts in the southern Sinai Peninsula or its opposite coast, far off from an insurgency being fought by Islamic militants against the army further north”.
It was the deadliest civil aviation disaster in Russian history.
The Russian plane carrying tourists, which belonged to air company Kogalymavia, had been heading from Sharm el-Sheikh to the Russian city of St Petersburg when it crashed on October 31, killing all 224 people on board.
The agency did not give any immediate reason for the ban on flights.
Saudia’s director general, Saleh bin Nasser Al-Jasser, was quoted as saying by the state news agency SPA that flights to Sharm El-Sheikh from Riyadh and Jeddah would increase by 75 per cent from February 2016.
A US government source also said on Monday (Nov 9) that neither Russian Federation nor Egypt has accepted an offer from the Federal Bureau of Investigation to assist them in investigating the crash.
Moscow said the ban is necessary because of concerns about security at Egypt’s airports.
Gharably was one of the most wanted men in Egypt. He was suspected as the man responsible for the bombing of an Italian consulate last summer, and the murder of a high-ranking government official in 2013.
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However, both Russian Federation and Egypt maintain that no conclusions have been reached into the cause of the crash despite allegations that the plane was downed by a bomb planted by ISIS. It isn’t clear whether the safety board will get a draft copy of formal accident reports prepared by Egyptian authorities in conjunction with representatives from four other countries that are full-fledged participants in the continuing probe. “The latest plane crash can make things even worse”.
