Report by : Gan Yung Chyan, KUCINTA SETIA / Image courtesy : Humans of JNF
On 4 October 2021, Egyptair operates its official ceremonial flight from Cairo to Tel Aviv, marking the Egyptian airline's entry into the Israeli travel market with its Horus logo. Since then, there were social media messages claiming that the airline will operate four times a week to Tel Aviv from Cairo.
However, a check on Egyptair's official web-site shows that Egyptair is not operating four times weekly to Tel Aviv. Instead, it is operating scheduled flights twice a week from 14 October 2021, on Thursdays and Sundays at different timings.
On 14 October 2021 (Thursday), Egyptair flight MS593 leaves Cairo for Tel Aviv at 4.30 pm, arrives in Tel Aviv at 6.50 pm before taking off from Tel Aviv for Cairo at 7.50 pm under flight MS594 and landing in Cairo at 8.15 pm. These timings are effective for flights on Thursdays. The flight journey takes 1 hour 25 minutes.
On Sundays starting from 17 October, Egyptair flight MS591 departs from Cairo to Tel Aviv on Sundays from 17 non-stop at 8.55 am, touches down in Tel Aviv at 11.15 am before leaving Tel Aviv for Cairo under flight MS592 at 12.15 pm and arriving in Cairo at 12.40 pm within 1 hour 20 minutes.
On other days of the week, passengers have to transfer via either Athens or Abu Dhabi for flights to Tel Aviv.
Egyptair flies from Cairo to Tel Aviv on Thursdays and Sundays with its Airbus A220-300 Horus jet. Previously before 4 October 2021, Egyptians and Israelis flew to Cairo with the logo-less aircraft of Air Sinai, Egyptair's former Cairo-Tel Aviv route operator subsidiary.
Egyptair has closed down Air Sinai.
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