The Civil Aviation Ministry discussed the possibility of establishing an Airbus factory in Egypt with the CEO of the Airbus Canada partnership, Philippe Balducci, and Executive Vice President and Managing Director of Airbus Middle East, Fouad Attar,according to Al Masry Al Youm. The talks took place on the sidelines of a celebration of EgyptAir’s receipt of an Airbus A220-300. Another possibility discussed was manufacturing parts of Airbus aircrafts in coordination with Egyptian factories in the public and private sectors. Balducci and Attar promised to discuss the suggestions with the company’s leaders.