Egypt to resumes cargo carrying commercial flights to US starting January 2019

It would appear that EgyptAir will begin shipping cargo on its commercial flights to the US, after a suspension dating back to 2015, according to a report by MENA news agency. The move follows a meeting between US Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen and Civil Aviation Minister Younes Al Masry, where Nielsen declared that Egypt’s airports are now safe to ship cargo to the US. EgyptAir, KLM, and Air France had banned the transport of goods on their airlines heading to London and the US in November 2015, following the downing of the Metrojet flight in Sharm El Sheikh one month earlier. Canada lifted the ban on EgyptAir direct cargo flights back in April.