EgyptAir, a member of Star Alliance, and Ukraine International Airlines have announced the signing of a codeshare agreement that will enable the two carriers to offer connecting flights between Cairo and Kyiv, which are now available on both airlines' booking systems.
Under the agreement, EgyptAir can place its code on Ukraine International Airlines flights between Kyiv and Cairo and between Kyiv and Istanbul, while Ukraine International Airlines will place its code on EgyptAir flights between Cairo and Istanbul.
Captain Ahmed Adel, chairman of EgyptAir Holding Company, said Kyiv is one of the hub cities of Eastern Europe and one of the destinations seeing growing traffic from the company's customers, and that customers will have an ideal opportunity to travel between Cairo Airport, one of the major hub airports in Africa and the Middle East, and Kyiv Boryspil International Airport. He added that the cooperation agreement opens new horizons in the EgyptAir network, which reaches more than 20 points in Europe.
For his part, Yuriy Miroshnikov, chief executive officer of Ukraine International Airlines, said that after 15 years of suspension, Cairo has become our first scheduled air destination in Africa, praising the cooperation not only for promoting Cairo as "the gateway to Egypt" but also for developing air traffic through Cairo Airport as the hub of the EgyptAir network in Africa and the Middle East, adding that we are also working hard to increase our frequencies to a daily flight thanks to the new codeshare cooperation.
