Airlines cancel Sharm el-Sheikh flights

Low-priced carrier easyJet has cancelled all flights to Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt until January 6th.

All flights to Sharm-el-sheikh were cancelled due to government advice following a plane crash that killed over 224 people on the 31st of last month.

The budget airline said it made the decision in order to provide certainty for customers planning their Christmas holidays.

“The safety and security of its passengers and crew is easyJet’s highest priority”.

People wanting to travel back to the United Kingdom have been asked to contact the airline’s customer service team.

It said customers with tickets booked to the resort would be able to receive a full refund, fly to another destination within the easyJet network or choose to have a voucher for use on future flights.

Easyjet has cancelled all flights throughout December and early January in a bid to let their customers form new Christmas plans.

Monarch has cancelled flights until 19 December while Thomson has done so up to and including 9 December and Thomas Cook until 10 December.

“The flights which were scheduled to operate today into Sharm El Sheikh are as follows – four from London (two from Gatwick, one from Stansted and one from Luton), one from Manchester and one from Milan Malpensa”.

Simultaneously, it was operating “rescue flights” to repatriate a few of the thousands of British holidaymakers left stranded at the popular resort after the United Kingdom government imposed a no-fly rule in the wake of what is now thought to have been a bomb on Metrojet flight 9251 to St Petersburg. “The safety and security of our customers will continue to be our top priorities in any decisions we may make”, it said. Islamic State terrorists have claimed responsibility for bombing the jet.

Britons at the resort were brought home in a series of flights amid heightened security measures which ended on November 17 and since then United Kingdom airlines have not operated routes from Sharm to the UK.