Sharm El-Sheik receives first UK flight since November 2015 – ZAWYA

Sharm El-Sheik receives first UK flight since November 2015 – ZAWYA

Sharm El-Sheikh International Airport received on Sunday evening its first couple of flights from the United Kingdom (UK) operated by British TUI AG, since suspending flights in November 2015.. The first UK flights carried about 374 travellers on board, 184 of which were coming from Gatwick Airport while 190 passengers arrived from Manchester Airport, Egypt's Ministry of Civil Aviation said.. High level officials from the Ministry of Aviation and South Sinai governorate received the passengers at the airport.. In 2014, about 906,000 British tourists visited Egypt, 600,000 of them were in Sharm El-Sheikh, while 1.5 million British tourists visited Egypt in 2010 before the revolution, according to local media reports.. There were about 415,000 British visitors in Egypt in 2018, according to the British embassy in Cairo..