Egyptair: Umrah/Ramadan/Summer peak season update

EgyptAir will lease 2 B767-300ER aircraft over the peak Umrah/Ramadan/Summer season (10AUG10-19SEP10). The aircraft are configured with 285 seats in an all-economy layout.

Both B763s will almost exclusively fly CAI-JED-CAI, with each aircraft operating 3 daily rotations (for a total of 6 daily flights). EgyptAir's existing scheduled services on the route remain unchanged.

This represents a significant capacity increase on CAI-JED over this period. Here is a breakdown:

• the existing 5x daily scheduled MS flights on the route, equate to approx 15,500 seats per week.
• the additional B763s flights will add a further 25,000 seats per week.

In total EgyptAir will offer over 40,000 seats per week on the route during AUG-SEP. To put this into perspective this is similar to offering 6 daily return flights with an A380.

In addition to this, Saudi Arabian Airlines are also offering a similar number of seats during this peak period.


Source: Horus!

AlMasria Universal Airline to start Alexandria-Jeddah

Although the airline announced they will start Cairo-Jeddah, they have changed plans and will start Alexandria-Jeddah instead from 31MAY10. I expect the current Egypt-KSA saga played a role in this.
AlMasria's schedule:
ALY JED UJ903 02:45 05:00 1234567 2:15 A320 0
JED ALY UJ904 06:30 08:55 1234567 2:25 A320 0
The airline will face stiff competition on the route from MS and 3 Saudi carriers:

• EgyptAir: 7x weekly ALY-JED with A320
• Saudi Arabian: 5x weekly JED-ALY with A320
• Nasair: 12x weekly JED-HBE with A320/E190
• Sama:7x weekly JED-HBE with B733

Source: Horus

Jeddah and Medina flights from the new terminal 3 starting the 1st of April 2010

EGYPTAIR announces that The departure and arrival of all flights To/from Jeddah and Medina Will be from the New Terminal 3 Starting from 00:01 Thursday 1st of the April, 2010.