EgyptAir, Air Cairo sign deals with travel agents

  • Date: 15-Mar-2023
  • Source: Egypt Independent
  • Sector:Tourism
  • Country:Egypt
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EgyptAir, Air Cairo sign deals with travel agents

The Minister of Civil Aviation Mohamed Abbas Helmy on Wednesday attended the signing of a number of cooperation protocols between EgyptAir, Air Cairo and a number of international tour operators in various countries of the world.

EgyptAir signed a cooperation protocol with a number of tourism agents to transport nearly 8,000 tourists from a number of German cities directly to Luxor and Hurghada within the coming six months.

A fruitful deal

Air Cairo signed a cooperation protocol for three years with Sun Express, according to which the latter will participate in the marketing and distribution of Air Cairo trips between tourist attractions in Egypt and various cities in German-speaking countries (Germany, Switzerland and Austria) and several other countries.

The protocol will benefit from the marketing power of Sun Express and the operational power of Air Cairo, which has the youngest fleet in Africa and a strong operating network that serves the incoming tourism movement to the cities of the Red Sea and there to tourist attractions in Egypt.

The cooperation protocol began in 2021 with 39 flights per week in the summer of 2021, between Hurghada and 12 cities in German-speaking countries.

It increased to 62 flights per week in the summer of 2022, and reached