MOSCOW (Sputnik) — First Russian tourists may fly to Egypt in the second half of October, Director of the Russian tourist association Turpomosch Alexander Osaulenko said Tuesday.
"Our experts positively assess the situation and say that, if the situation develops with the same dynamics, then flights will be resumed in the second half of October," Osaulenko told the Russian Izvestia newspaper.
Russia suspended all flights to and from Egypt last fall after a Russian A321 plane crashed in the Sinai desert on October 31 while flying from the resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh to St. Petersburg following a terrorist attack claimed by the Islamic State jihadist group, outlawed in Russia.
All 224 people on board died in what has become the largest civil aviation disaster in Russian history.
