Lt. Gen. Younis Al-Masry, Minister of Civil Aviation, today received Dr. Cyrill Jean Nunn, the German Ambassador to Egypt, in one of the ambassador's first diplomatic meetings since his appointment, to discuss bilateral relations between the two countries in the field of aviation.
During the meeting, Al-Masry praised Germany's support for Egypt in the fields of aviation security and training, stressing that the measures Egypt is taking to develop all of its airports and their security systems meet the highest international safety and security standards.
The two sides discussed opening new routes between the two countries and expanding Lufthansa's route network in Egypt, as Swiss International Air Lines (SWISS), part of the German Lufthansa Group, is operating a new route between Geneva and Cairo.
For his part, the German ambassador stressed the distinguished relations between the two countries, adding that there has been a noticeable increase in German tourist traffic to Egypt, with the number of tourists reaching 1.8 million German tourists in 2018, and that German tourism targets Egypt as an attractive tourist destination, especially the cities of Sharm El-Sheikh and Hurghada.
The meeting also addressed the importance of Sphinx International Airport, which recently began trial operations, in operating charter flights and increasing tourist traffic between the two countries. The discussion also touched on developing the EgyptAir fleet in cooperation with Airbus.
It is worth noting that EgyptAir operates 14 weekly flights, at a rate of one flight daily to each of Munich and Frankfurt, in addition to 5 weekly flights to Berlin, while Air Cairo operates flights to Dusseldorf, Munich, Stuttgart, Frankfurt and Hanover, and German carrier Lufthansa operates 18 weekly flights to Cairo, in addition to air cargo flights between the two countries.
There is a codeshare agreement between EgyptAir and German airline Lufthansa, and both companies are members of Star Alliance, the largest airline alliance in the world.
