Egypt to receive first flights from London in December

Sharm El Sheikh Airport will begin receiving flights from London for the first time in four years in December after the UK last week lifted its flight ban, the Civil Aviation Ministry confirmed in a statement. One weekly chartered flight carrying 168 passengers will then continue until March 2020. We noted yesterday that tour operator Red Sea Holidays announced hours after the ban was lifted that it would launch weekly charter flights from late December. TUI, meanwhile, is looking to start flights next summer. The restrictions were brought in after the downing of a Russian airliner in October 2015.