By Akram Medhat
Safwat Moslem, chairman of EgyptAir Holding Company, said the company's flights achieved an operational regularity rate of 95%, while load factors on its aircraft reached 96% on departures and arrivals since the start of the week and during the two days of the Eid al-Fitr holiday.
He said EgyptAir operated 102 flights last Saturday, 82 international and 20 domestic, carrying about 10,000 passengers, and yesterday, the first day of Eid al-Fitr, operated 119 flights, 91 international and 28 domestic, carrying about 15,000 passengers.
He added that by the end of today, the second day of Eid, EgyptAir is scheduled to operate 118 flights, 85 international and 33 domestic, carrying about 13,500 passengers from Cairo Airport, including 16 flights from Jeddah and Medina to Egyptian airports to carry 3,000 Umrah pilgrims.
