MOSCOW (Sputnik) — 13 Russian airlines will bring Russian tourists back home after the country suspended its flights to and from Sharm el-Sheikh following A321 crash on the Sinai Peninsula, Russian Tourist Union press secretary Irina Tyurina said Saturday.
“These 13 airlines will take tourists to different cities, but 60-70 percent of those passengers will head to Moscow,” Tyurina told RIA Novosti.
The Russian Airbus A321 crashed en route from Egypt’s resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh to St. Petersburg on October 31. All 224 people on board were killed in what has become the biggest tragedy in Russian and Soviet civil aviation history.
Earlier on Saturday, Russia’s Association of Tour Operators head Maya Lomidze told RIA Novosti that 93 flights would be sent to Egypt in the next 2 days to bring Russian tourists back home.
