Cairo resumes direct flights with Yemen s Aden after five-month halt
ATP- Arab tourism portal- Yemeni Airlines in Cairo resumed flights on Tuesday to Aden after almost a five-month suspension due to Saudi-led airstrikes in Yemen, airport officials said.Since the Saudi campaign began, commercial flights between Egypt and Yemen had been halted.
A commercial airliner left Cairo to Aden on Tuesday in what was the first direct passenger flight between the two cities in close to five months.
"The Yemeni flight left Cairo, with 151 Yemeni passengers on board, returning home," an official said.Suspension of flights to the Arab world’s war-torn country left an estimated 6,000 Yemeni nationals stranded in Egypt for weeks.
Flights to Yemen were permitted occasionally in late May, mostly carrying Yemenis who were visiting Egypt for medical treatment, stopping first in Saudi Arabia before continuing home.
