By Akram Medhat
EgyptAir continues to operate its air bridge to bring pilgrims back home, having so far carried about 30,000 pilgrims on 133 flights from Jeddah and Medina.
In this context, Safwat Musallam, chairman of EgyptAir Holding Company, stressed that flight departure and arrival times are on schedule, and that the crowding and congestion at baggage carousels, which had hindered the smooth flow of operations in previous Hajj seasons, has disappeared.
Regarding today's flights, Monday, Musallam said that 26 flights are scheduled to take off, 13 from Jeddah airport and 13 from Medina airport, to carry 6,100 pilgrims from the lottery, Social Solidarity, transit, tourism companies, missions, bodies and labor, individual Hajj and foreigners categories, in addition to special flights to return pilgrims from Bamako in the Republic of Mali and Palestinian pilgrims.
As for tomorrow's flights, Tuesday, 25 flights are scheduled, 12 from Jeddah airport and 13 from Medina, to return 5,500 pilgrims.
