Lt. Gen. Younis Al-Masry, Minister of Civil Aviation, received Jan Folik, the Czech Ambassador in Cairo, at noon today to discuss ways of joint cooperation between the two countries in the various fields of air transport. During the meeting, they reviewed a number of important topics, including the air transport agreement signed between Egypt and the Czech Republic and the operation of a direct air route between Cairo and Prague, which will help strengthen trade and investment cooperation between the two countries, and discussed increasing tourist traffic between the two countries through the Administrative Capital and Sphinx international airports.
For his part, the Czech ambassador affirmed his country’s keenness to boost investments in various fields, especially aviation, in light of the strategic relations between the two countries.
It is worth noting that Czech tourist arrivals to Egypt reached 269,000 tourists in 2018, up 32% from 2017, spending 2.4 million tourist nights, an increase of 31%.
