Tourists vacate Egypt after Russian plane crash

Last Wednesday, Britain banned all flights to and from Sharm el-Sheikh airport, a move followed by Russian Federation over the weekend, over intelligence reports a branch of Isis in the Sinai planted a bomb on the Metrojet plane.

The beaches in Egypt’s Red Sea resort of Sharm El-Sheikh November 10 are fairly empty.

Meanwhile, tourism bookings in the Red Sea resort have plunged in the wake of the crash.

“The lights will not be going out in Sharm al-Sheikh’, he said”.

Ahmed, who is originally from Upper Egypt, said five other employees of his hotel were also told to go on unpaid leave.

Those problems, which led to the suspension of all British flights, included poor CCTV on baggage handlers, dark corners that were hard to monitor, and staff on X-ray machines being distracted by their phones.

Two Egyptian daily newspapers from Sunday display headlines touting Western conspiracy theories in the plane crash of a Russian passenger jet last month over the Sinai peninsula.

“I hoped that people would not forejudge the investigations”, Al-Sisi said.

Derek Moore, chairman of Britain’s Association of Independent Tour Operators, said that following the crash “the key to air travel… will be the reputation of particular airports”.

About 40,000 Russian tourists have been flown back since Friday, about half of their estimated number, according to a Russian government estimate.

Meanwhile, tens of thousands of foreign tourists, including a few 80,000 Russians and 20,000 Britons, were stranded in Egypt after flights were cancelled over security fears.

After the bloody crackdown of the Muslim Brothers’ demonstrations on Rabia Square in Cairo, supporters of this movement were driven underground, where they continued fighting against Sisi’s secular regime.

Ivanov said security needed to be improved not only in the tourism hub of Sharm al-Sheikh but also in Hurghada and Cairo – “in those places where Russian planes fly”.

Hammond speculated that if the plane was brought down by a bomber, it could have been the work of the Islamic State’s central organization in Syria, an affiliate of the militant group based in Sinai, or a lone attacker, possibly inspired by ISIS.

“The Bedouins depend on tourism to earning their living”.

“Ideally we would want them to comply with security features because they believe and understand how those procedures make them and their fellow passengers safer, not just because they are rather tiresome measures that they feel they have to put up with”, he told a conference at the airshow. He reiterated his government’s position that any conclusions about the cause of the crash were premature before the investigation had been carried out.