A380 Pyramid selling to woo Egyptians

The Airbus A380 flight test aircraft flew over the Pyramids for the first time ever today


This special flight concluded the first A380 visit to Egypt during which the A380 attended the AVEX International Airshow at Sharm El Sheikh International Airport this week.
Following airport compatibility tests carried out at Cairo International Airport  the flight demonstrated that the Egyptian capital airport is capable of handling A380 operations.

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Cairo Airport and their new 4000 meter toy

Cairo Airport has opened their new 4000 meter runway. This runways is capable for next generation heavy airplane's like the Airbus A380. This new runway has all modern equipment like ILS systems.

Cairo Airport had to change the runway codes because of the new 3rd parallel runway. The new runway is called: 05R/25L


The first part of this video is about the new runway:



May this new runway have many safe take-offs and landings... Congratulations Cairo Airport!