Russian citizens celebrating with Egyptian flags at Moscow airport, 2018 (source: Youm7)

Plane spotters welcome EgyptAir at Moscow airport on first flight for 2018 (source: Youm7)

Passengers boarding EgyptAir flight at Moscow Domodedovo airport, 2018 (source: Al-Ahram)

Passengers boarding EgyptAir flight at Moscow Domodedovo airport, 2018 (source: Youm7)

EgyptAir’s National Football Team plane arrives at Moscow on first flight for 2018 (source: Youm7)

EgyptAir’s National Football Team plane arrives at Moscow on first flight for 2018 (source: Youm7)

Egypt’s Cairo Airport authorities welcome Aeroflot’s Russian visitors to Egypt with flowers, 2018 (source: Youm7)

Egypt’s Cairo Airport authorities welcome Aeroflot’s Russian visitors to Egypt with flowers, 2018 (source: Youm7)

Egypt’s Cairo Airport authorities welcome Aeroflot’s Russian visitors to Egypt with flowers, 2018 (source: Youm7)

Aeroflot Russian airline arrives at Cairo international airport, Egypt, 2018 (source: Youm7)

✈️🌍🇷🇺🇪🇬 The national carrier of Egypt, EgyptAir, and the national carrier of Russia, Aeroflot, have resumed flights between Russia and Egypt. EgyptAir commenced with a flight last week to Moscow Domodedovo airport, where it was received by an official welcome by the airport’s authority. There was great happiness for resuming flights among the authorities in Russia and Egypt, the Russian tourists travelling to Egypt and the Egyptians living in Russia. Egypt operated its national football team’s aircraft on this flight to Moscow, which will be the carrier of Egypt’s team to the FIFA football World Cup held in Russia this year. Aeroflot also commenced flights from Moscow to Cairo international airport. All flights operate from Cairo’s new Terminal 2 which is equipped with the worlds latest technologies in aviation.

Sources:

• Youm7 (Arabic): article 1, article 2, article 3 
• Al-Ahram (English): article 1, article 2