TPA begins disbursing charter flights incentive program payments

The Tourism Promotion Authority (TPA) has begun disbursing payments to foreign charter airlines under the incentives program, Al Borsa reports. The payments, which will cover the November 2015-October 2016 period, will be made in installments. Some 87 companies have submitted their paperwork for payments under the program which offers payouts and fee exemptions to flights with 50-80% seat occupancy rates that bring in regular tours from the EU to a number of Egyptian airports. The Tourism Ministry had agreed earlier this month to extend the program, which expires at the end of October, for an additional year.