Call from the Land of Pharaohs

New Delhi: The Land of Pharaohs, Egypt, has chalked out plans to double the inflow of Indian tourists with improvement in air connectivity and launch of an India-specific marketing campaign. Talks are currently on between the civil aviation authorities of the two countries to increase frequencies of direct flights from three to seven per week by the year-end.
EgyptAir, the national carrier, is looking at adding Delhi, Bangalore and Kolkata on its network. It currently flies thrice a week from Mumbai. Industry sources said talks are also on between Egypt Air and Jet Airways for a code-share agreement.
“Egypt is positioning itself as a hub for Indian carriers to fly to Europe, Africa and West Asia,” said Egypt’s ambassador to India Mohamed Higazy. With improvement in air connectivity, he expects over 1.5 lakh Indians to visit the country by 2008 end. Last year, around 75,000 Indian tourists visited the Pyramid country.
04/08/07 Sudipto Dey/Economic Times

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Categories: Foreign Aug 2007