The Ministry of Civil Aviation has announced that flight traffic at Cairo International Airport on Saturday 28 February 2026 recorded 69 flights operated out of a total of 116 planned to Gulf destinations, with 47 flights cancelled as airspace was closed in a number of neighboring countries, as a result of regional developments due to the US-Israeli-Iranian war.
In this context, Dr. Sameh El-Hefny, Minister of Civil Aviation, carried out an inspection tour in the early hours of this morning of the operations and crisis management room at Cairo International Airport, to follow up on work at the airport and check on operations according to the approved plans following current events, accompanied by Magdy Ishak, Chairman of Cairo Airport Company.
This comes in light of continuous field monitoring of operations at Egyptian airports, amid recent turmoil and rapid geopolitical and regional developments resulting from the US-Israeli-Iranian war, and the resulting closure of airspace in a number of neighboring countries.
The ministry stresses continued direct and intensive coordination with the civil aviation authorities of the countries concerned according to approved operating procedures to ensure aviation safety, and the monitoring of all developments to deal with them immediately, in cooperation with the regional office of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO).
