Egypt Air to add weekly flight from Mumbai

Mumbai: When the times are not so good for aviation industry globally and specially for India, Egypt Air has planned to increase its India operati
ons with the addition of a new flight from Mumbai from October 28.
With this, Egypt Air will operate four weekly services between India and Egypt, a press release issued here stated today.
The airline's India & Sri Lanka's Regional Manager Ahmed Wasfy said that "the introduction of this new service is a sign of our confidence in the tremendous potential of India as an emerging source market.
The enhanced service MS 969 will operate every Wednesday between Mumbai and Cairo while the return flight from Cairo will operate every Tuesday.
The airline will be operating Airbus 330 on this sector with a seat capacity of 268 out of which business class will constitute 24 seats and economy class 244 seats, the release said.
Egypt Air will now fly every Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from Mumbai offering an overall total seat capacity of 1,072, which will include a total of 96 business seats and 976 economy seats per week.
22/10/08 PTI/Economic Times

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