By Hussein Mahmoud
CAIRO (AA) - Egypt sent its first civilian flight to Moscow on Thursday following a suspension of some two and a half years, EgyptAir, Egypt’s flagship national carrier, has announced.
In a statement, EgyptAir said its flights to Moscow had officially resumed with three flights per week -- on Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday -- to the Russian capital.
Early Thursday, the first Russian flight since the suspension was lifted arrived in Cairo from Moscow carrying 125 passengers.
In late 2015, Moscow suspended all flights to and from Egypt after a Russian passenger plane crashed in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula killing everyone on board.
Last December, Egyptian Civil Aviation Minister Sherif Fathi and Russian Transport Minister Maksim Sokolov signed an aviation security agreement in a first step towards resuming flights between the two countries.