"What this makes clear — not just to the Egyptians but to other airports around the world: if we are concerned about their security we will not hesitate in taking the kind of action we have taken this week for the safety of British passengers," Patrick McLoughlin said in an interview to BBC Radio 4's Today program.
British tourists are currently stranded in the popular resort of Sharm el-Sheikh after all UK flights to and from the local airport were suspended on Wednesday after a Russian plane crashed in Egypt last weekend.
The ban was caused by UK concern that the Russian passenger plane might have been brought down by a bomb.
On Saturday, a Russia-operated Airbus A321, en route from Egypt's resort of Sharm el-Sheikh to St. Petersburg, crashed in the Sinai Peninsula. All 224 people on board were killed in what has become the largest civil aviation disaster in Russian and Soviet history.
Despite a number of versions of the cause of the air crash being elaborated, Moscow has said that it is too early to draw any conclusions until the results of the official investigation have been published.
