Sharm El-Sheikh Receives 4,500 Tourists as 6,500 Russians and British Leave Yesterday, Sunday

Ukraine tops tourist arrivals to the "City of Peace"... and 4 Arab countries enter the competition

By Akram Medhat, Travel Yalla journalist

Sharm El-Sheikh International Airport received 80 international and domestic flights yesterday, Sunday, carrying 4,500 passengers. Among them were 25 Russian flights and 7 British flights without passengers, while the other flights carried tourists of various nationalities, most notably 8 Ukrainian flights carrying 1,515 tourists, 7 Italian flights with 860 tourists on board and two flights from Germany carrying 200 tourists, in addition to one flight each from Australia, Georgia, Belarus, Hungary, Turkey, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia and Jordan.

Meanwhile, 75 international and domestic flights took off from Sharm El-Sheikh airport yesterday carrying 11,000 passengers, among them 6,500 Russian and British tourists.

As for today's flights, Monday, by 12 noon the airport had received two flights from Ukraine, one from Turkey and another from Tunisia, carrying 650 tourists, in addition to 7 Russian flights without passengers and 5 domestic flights carrying 350 passengers.