It has been reported that British spies uncovered an Islamic State (IS) bomb plot in the region following the tragedy. All 224 people on the plane were killed.
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“It is not a terror act”. He said any checked bags would be flown back separately, probably on Royal Air Force jets.
“I think most of the people who were expecting to be home by tonight will be home by tonight”. Emma Smyth said there was at least one confrontation between staff at the Aqua Blue hotel and a distraught English family that didn’t want to pay for its extra days of lodging. For its part, a Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman seemed to indicate frustration with the British government’s intelligence sharing. “He’s been telling his people he’s in Syria to attack ISIS, but he hasn’t”. The airline says it is paying for hotels and additional expenses for its stranded customers.
“They checked the security actions, they were happy with that”, he told a Downing Street news conference through an interpreter. The flight data recorder is still being analyzed. Cameron also spoke by phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin to explain that concern for the safety of British citizens had led the government to go public with its suspicions about a bomb. Bosses at Newcastle International Airport said on Thursday they were monitoring the situation. Exasperated tourists heckled the British ambassador, demanding to know when they would be flown out.
The ambassador is denying that Egypt is blocking the flights.
It also recommended against travel in Egyptian border areas close to Libya and Sudan and in the northern Sinai Peninsula.
Exasperated British tourists who have waited for hours at the Sharm el-Sheikh airport are heckling U.K. Ambassador John Casson after reports of more flight delays and cancellations. “This is 100 times that for a guy like Putin”.
“This is the same type of event that motivated the king of Jordan to step up his attacks against ISIS in Syria”, Pregent said. They should reimburse you if you have receipts.
Air France said Friday it is reinforcing screening procedures in Cairo.
Dutch travel companies are preparing to repatriate tourists vacationing at the Egyptian Red Sea resort, the takeoff point for a Metrojet plane that crashed into the Sinai desert on Oct. 31.
The dispute arose after the U.S. and British intelligence was disclosed Wednesday, just as el-Sissi was heading to London on a previously planned visit – his first as president.
ISIS’s affiliate in Egypt claimed responsibility for the plane crash. Returning passengers will only be allowed to take hand luggage on board.
EasyJet said that two aircraft which had already arrived in Sharm would be able to depart, but its other eight planned flights would not be able to operate.
Britain suspended flights after the crash on Saturday of a Russian airliner over the Sinai Peninsula.
A spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin says Moscow is outraged at a cartoon in the French weekly Charlie Hebdo mocking the Russian plane crash in Egypt.
Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Friday that Moscow views the cartoon as “blasphemy”.
Metrojet suspended all flights of Airbus A321 jets in its fleet after the crash.
The commentary reads: Islamic State: Russian aviation intensifies its bombardments.
Russians have been bombing Islamic State targets in Syria since end of September.
Lawmakers at the Russian State Duma voiced their outrage as well, calling on the government to blacklist the French publication as extremist literature and insisting that the French authorities react and apologize. “[Putin] is going to take action”.
Gedi Schrijver repeated a KLM statement that it was a precautionary measure based on “national and international information”. “But we do have enough information at this point to not rule out the possibility of terrorist involvement”, Earnest said.
KLM has no direct flights to the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, from where the doomed Russian plane took off last Saturday.
Germany’s Lufthansa Group announced Thursday it would cancel flights by its subsidiary airlines – Edelweiss and Eurowings – to Sharm el-Sheikh.
EasyJet said it will run nine flights from the Red Sea resort to London and one to Milan, while Monarch will have two scheduled flights and three additional flights. Most of those onboard are Russian and British tourists.
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U.S. and British leaders have stopped short of a categorical assignment of blame in the crash, but Cameron said it is “more likely than not” that the cause was a bomb.
