Al Kharafi selects EgyptAir for maintenance centre at Egypt's first private airport

A new maintenance centre is to open at Egypt's first privately owned and operated airport at Marsa Salam.
Owned by the Kuwaiti Al Kharafi Group the Marsa Alam Airport is 60km north away from Marsa Alam City and is planning on 10,000 aircraft movements by the end of 2011.
 
The new maintenance centre will be operated under contract by EgyptAir Maintenance & Engineering Company with the contract signed this week between Eng Abdel Aziz Fadel, EgyptAir Maintenance & Engineering Chairman, and Eng Ibrahim Saleh, the Al Kharafi President in Egypt. 
 
EgyptAir Maintenance & Engineering is now one of the biggest MRO providers in the Middle East and Africa for Airbus, Boeing and Embraer types. With more than 78 years history, EgyptAir Maintenance & Engineering serves more than 100 airlines in Europe, Middle East and Africa with a high potential workforce to satisfy its increasing customers with total care maintenance solutions.  
 
The Marsa Alam international airport was opened to support the increasing tourism in the Red Sea area. It currently receives Boeing 737, 757 and 767 aircraft. 

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Belair/airberlin launch new Basel – Egypt routes in W10

Belair, a member under airberlin group, is operating NEW Basel – Luxor and Basel – Marsa Alam service for Winter 2010 season.

These service begins in November 2010. Schedules:

Basel – Luxor
4T3316 BSL0750 – 1320LXR 320 4
4T3317 LXR1405 – 1445HRG1545 – 1945BSL 320 4

Basel – Marsa Alam
4T2176 BSL0750 – 1330RMF 320 2
4T2177 RMF1415 – 1955BSL 320 2

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Egyptair news

The airline has begun releasing their W10 schedule.

• Lusaka: new destination to be served via DAR with 4x weekly B738 flights.
• Almaty: CAI-ALA will be canceled.
• Tokyo: CAI-NRT increases from 3 to 6x weekly flights in September, and then 6 to 7x weekly (daily) from 01MAR10.
• Osaka: CAI-KIX increases from 4 to 5x weekly flights from 01MAR10. 2 flights will continue to operate KIX-LXR-CAI on the return.
• Damascus: CAI-DAM increases from 11 to 14x weekly (twice daily).
• Kuwait: CAI-KWI increases from 10 to 14x weekly flights (twice daily). (Usually 21x weekly in summer and 10x weekly in winter).
• Accra: will change from a night to a day flight like Lagos.
• Marsa Alam: EgyptAir Express will expand operations from RMF with new domestic flights to Sharm El Sheikh (from 01JUL10), Alexandria (from 01JUL10), Luxor (from 01NOV10)and Abu Simbel (from 05NOV10). In addition the airline will operate 2x weekly charters from RMF to JED, KWI and AMM between 01JUL09-09AUG10.
• OA Code Share: The long-standing code share with Olympic Air on the ALY-ATH route will end on 29OCT10. This was expected given the recent launch of HBE-IST by fellow Star Alliance partner, TK.
• Airbus A330-200 Refit: The airline has indefinitely postponed the refit of the existing 7 A332 with the new interiors.

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EgyptAir Express adds more flights to Marsa Alam.

Egypt will host the IATA AGM in 2011 for the second time in the association's history. Hussein Massoud, chairman of the hosting carrier, explains how the event would benefit both tourism and air transport in Egypt

THE RED SEA resorts are to be served with more services starting this summer. EgyptAir Express the regional and domestic carrier has signed a new contract to expand operation to Marsa Alam airport. The new agreement stipulates operating domestic and regional flights based on sharing the costs between both airline and airport. The carrier is operating services to Marsa Alam, a BOT airport operated by Kuwaiti Al-Khurafi group, under an agreement reached in 2007 to operate the service on the same base. Vice President, Ibrahim Saleh signed for Al-Khurafi Group.

According to Express Chairman Helmi Rizq, the new agreement allows the carrier to expand current operations between Cairo and Marsa Alam from five flights to seven weekly starting from the first of July. "A weekly flight from Upper Egypt's Luxor city will be launched on Mondays. We will add a weekly flight on Fridays from Abu Simbel starting from next October," explained Rizq.

Marsa Alam will be connected to Alexandria with two flights weekly via Sharm El-Sheikh. "This means adding more flights to Sharm El-Sheikh service," he added. Express, under the agreement, is scheduled to operate three new services from Marsa Alam airport to Jeddah, Kuwait and Amman, each with two flights weekly.

Late last month, Express airline launched a promotional campaign to promote its route to South Sinai's Taba resort city which is currently operating with two flights weekly. The campaign consisted of three parts; an attractive package to spend three nights at five star hotels including a flight ticket at LE 1500. The airline launched an advertisement campaign to promote the city as well as inviting 60 travel agents and tour operators to a fan trip to explore the city.

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