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Asharq Al-Awsat
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EgyptAir to Resume Moscow Flights Next Month

A picture taken on September 30, 2015, shows Egypt Air planes on the tarmac of Cairo international Airport. Khaled Desouki/AFP

Egypt's national carrier EgyptAir has said it would resume direct flights between Cairo and Moscow on April 12, after they were halted following the bombing of a Russian airliner over the Sinai in 2015.

The announcement came three days after Russian flagship carrier Aeroflot said it would restart flights between the two capitals from April 11.

Safwat Musallam, head of EgyptAir Holding, said on Friday the carrier planned to operate three Cairo-Moscow flights a week.

Aeroflot is planning the same number of flights but will run extra services during the football World Cup, to be held in Russia from June 14 to July 15.

The Russian airline said on Tuesday that Egypt had met its demands for stricter security measures.

Both companies suspended the route in October 2015 after a charter jet operated by Russia's Kogalymavia, carrying holidaymakers from the south Sinai resort of Sharm El-Sheikh, crashed, killing all 224 people on board. 

The Egyptian branch of ISIS claimed the attack.

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