Monday, May 30, 2011

Easy Jet Denied Flight Rights in Egypt

The Egyptian airlines have refused the LCC access to the services of Cairo Airport unless they renovate their No Frills Model and offered various other services to the Passengers.U.K. and Egypt had a bilateral agreement June 2010, offering landing rights for Easy Jet to three flights per week. The agreement between the two nations also raised the number of weekly slots on the London to Cairo Flights or Alexandria routes to 14 slots from 11, but also capped seating at 4,500 per week in each direction.

The bilateral agreement permits only scheduled U.K. airlines to land at Cairo or Alexandria and were previously split between British Airways and Deutsche Lufthansa AG's British Midland International. BMI also borrows three weekly slots from Star Alliance partner Egyptair.Easy Jet application for certain time slots was rejected because of its low-cost model. In order to gain approval, they said Easy Jet has been asked to change its no-frills strategy, including having two classes of service instead of one at present, halting the sale of food on board and introducing a member of staff to collect taxes.

About Easy JetEasy Jet is a low cost carrier based in UK With London as its major base. The airlines offer no frills services from many European countries and cities such as Paris, Amsterdam and Amman Flights . Emirates Airline confirmed that it will resume its flights to and from Abidjan, Cote D'Ivoire, effective 12 May.

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