Egypt resumes cargo carrying commercial flights to US

EgyptAir has resumed air freight service to New York for the first time since the downing of the Metrojet flight back in 2015, a source at the company told Reuters on Thursday. “(The United States) was apprehensive after the incident, and this may be normal for it, but security procedures and precautions are greater now. It saw there is no (more) need for it (suspension of air freight),” the source added. The move followed a meeting last month 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.