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Thursday, November 5, 2015
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Thursday, November 5, 2015
Lufthansa cancels flights to Egypt’s Sinai
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleGermany’s Lufthansa Group says it’s suspending all flights to and from Egypt’s Sharm el-Sheikh “due to the current situation on the Sinai Peninsula.”
The airline says that two weekly flights of subsidiaries Edelweiss and Eurowings would be affected. It says it will work with the German Foreign Ministry and trip organizers to make sure that any passengers already in Sharm el-Sheikh are safely returned home.
The Foreign Ministry tells The Associated Press there are currently 50 Germans known to be in the resort area.
Other Lufthansa Group airlines have already changed routes so as to fly around Sinai.
Lufthansa says flights to Cairo will not be affected by any of the new measures.
— AP
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