The international
airports of Cairo and Sohag are receiving on June 28-29 seven flights
repatriating 1,070 Egyptian expats who were stuck in Kuwait over the COVID-19
outbreak.
The three flights landing in Sohag are operated by Kuwait Airways, Air Arabia,
and Al- Jazeera Airways. Each is bringing home 145 Egyptians.
Nile Air is operating two flights to Cairo. Each is repatriating 145 citizens.
The other two flights to the capital are operated by Kuwait Airways and
Al-Jazeera Airways. The former is carrying 200 nationals, while the latter is
bringing back 145 others, some 34, 274 stranded Egyptians were repatriated over
the past 19 days to the various Egyptian governorates, according to a
well-placed Kuwaiti source.
The repatriation process came in light of the ongoing efforts to transfer
Egyptians stuck in limbo overseas due to the outbreak of the novel coronavirus,
minister of Civil Aviation Mohamed Manar stated that around 57,000 stranded
Egyptians have been brought home on 315 exceptional flights operated by Egypt
Air and Air Cairo since the suspension of international aviation on March 19.
Source:
Egypt Today
