Tour operator TEZ-tour urged tourists departing for the upcoming dates to Egypt to cancel applications for tours to Hurghada and Sharm el-Sheikh and fill out a refund application. We are talking about tours until December 19, the fate of other races has not yet been specified. So far the negotiations on the restoration of the old or the search for a new air corridor from Russia to Egypt for aircraft with the so-called dual registration have “failed”.
“Due to the imposed restrictions on flights and bans on the use of the airspace of Turkey, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and Eritrea, as well as due to the lack of permission from the Federal Air Transport Agency (FAT) to use the proposed alternative route a/c I Fly reported TEZ TOUR about the impossibility of flights to Egypt in the period from December 15 to 19, 2022. Customers of the tour operator, whose departures were scheduled for the relevant dates, will receive a full refund for the purchased tours,” commented the correspondent of the Infogroup to the press service ” TEZ Tour”.
As for the tourists waiting for departure flights from the resorts of Egypt, the tour operator informed them that the tourists are “grouped in several hotels of category 5* with meals.” “This is a necessary measure for the organization of an operational transfer to the airport. All tourists will soon receive an additional notification about the date and conditions of return flights,” said the tour operator’s experts.
We will remind you that earlier this problem had to be solved by another tour operator: Pegasus tourists were transferred to a Turkish carrier and they will be sent to the resorts of Egypt with an intermediate landing in Antalya for refueling. The reason for the changes is the closure of Jordanian airspace for Nordwind Airlines. It is about Southwind Airlines. According to the statement of the tour operator, since it is a Turkish carrier, flights to Sharm el-Sheikh and Hurghada will be carried out with a landing in Antalya – Turks do not have the right to take Russian passengers directly to a third country – only with a formal landing on the territory of Turkey. “The changes occurred due to Jordan’s ban on Nordwind aircraft flying over their country,” the tour operator also explains.