The Egyptian Minister of Civil Aviation, Pilot Mohamed Manar, issued his directives quickly to provide all necessary facilities for the travel and return of Egyptians and foreigners to and from Egypt before the stop of air traffic in the Egyptian airports tomorrow, Thursday, with an emphasis on the continuation of EgyptAir, Egyptian private airlines and foreign airlines in the conduct of its flights International to accommodate the numbers willing to travel and arrive to and from the Egyptian airports before the specified date, and to exempt all passengers booked in this period on the national company from any fines on airline tickets in the event of a refund of the price of tickets or modification of reservations.

According to a statement published by "EgyptAir", through its official page on the social networking site "Facebook", it is for travelers on companies other than EgyptAir to communicate with those companies to follow up on their reservations, and with regard to the tourist delegations present in Egypt and coming through chartered flights, the Minister confirmed that It will be allowed to complete the tourist programs and leave the delegations on their scheduled travel dates on their charter flights without bringing in new delegations.

He added that the Egyptian airspace is not closed, and that the decision to suspend air traffic does not include domestic flights and air cargo flights to not harm the interests of citizens, as pilot Mohamed Manar stressed the continuation of coordination and cooperation with all concerned authorities in the country to monitor the developments of the situation in the Corona virus file and its impact on Security and safety of civil aviation.

He added that all Egyptian airports will be purged during the period of suspension and vital installations in the civil aviation sector.

The Minister of Aviation pointed out that the National EgyptAir Company, in coordination with the relevant authorities, will follow the process of evacuating Egyptian citizens intensively during the coming days before suspending flights and at the same time facilitating the return of foreign tourists to their countries after the end of their tourism program.

The Ministry of Civil Aviation called on all travelers to follow-up and communicate with the airlines associated with them to amend and schedule their flights and ensure their safe return to their countries without any delay or obstruction of their obligations.

In addition, EgyptAir announced the enlargement of the largest possible number of aircraft on international flights according to the volume of demand for the airline’s two-way routes, to accommodate the numbers willing to travel to and from Egypt before the deadline to stop the movement of air.

The company said that in light of the decision issued by the Presidency of the Council of Ministers regarding the suspension of air traffic to and from all Egyptian airports from Thursday noon, March 19 to Tuesday, March 31, as part of the measures taken by the Egyptian government to reduce the spread of the new Corona virus (Covid 19), and in The framework of the national role that the national company always plays in various events and crises towards the sons of Egypt in various parts of the world and taking into account the current conditions, it has been decided to enlarge the models of the largest possible number of aircraft on international flights according to the size of the demand for the company's lines in both directions to accommodate the numbers Travel to and from Egypt in the coming hours ahead of schedule to stop air traffic.

The company added that it was decided to return the value of the international travel ticket to EgyptAir customers who wish to retrieve the ticket, while exempting them from any fines.

The company called on clients wishing to amend or postpone their reservations to review any of the EgyptAir offices located throughout the country or their tourism agent.