By Akram Medhat
Safwat Moslem, chairman of EgyptAir Holding Company, announced that the national carrier today, Saturday, completes the outbound phase of this year's Hajj season, 1438 AH/2017, whose first flights began on August 9. With the end of this phase, EgyptAir will have carried about 70,000 pilgrims on 271 flights from various Egyptian airports, including flights for Palestinian pilgrims and pilgrims from Bamako, Mali, as well as transit pilgrims from various countries around the world.
He added that Jeddah International Airport received about 41,000 pilgrims on 150 flights, while Prince Mohammad bin Abdulaziz Airport in Medina received about 30,000 pilgrims on 121 flights.
For his part, Captain Sherif Ezzat, chairman of EgyptAir Airlines, said the return phase is scheduled to begin on September 5. Preparations have been made by dispatching a work mission drawn from the various EgyptAir specialties involved in operations, traveling today, Saturday, to work during the return phase at Jeddah and Medina airports, in order to maintain the operational regularity that distinguished EgyptAir during the outbound phase.
He noted that today, the last day of operations in the outbound phase, the company is operating 23 flights carrying 5,850 pilgrims: 16 flights to Jeddah, 15 of them from Cairo Airport and one from Sharm El-Sheikh Airport, carrying 4,020 pilgrims, while 7 flights take off for Medina carrying 1,830 pilgrims.
