(MENAFN- Trend News Agency)
The first direct flight between the Israeli coastal city of Tel
Aviv and Egypt's Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh took off on
Sunday, Israeli national airline El-Al said, Trend reports citing
Al
Arabiya .
Flight 5193, operated by El-Al subsidiary Sun d'Or, departed Ben
Gurion International Airport at 0715 GMT, the carrier said in a
statement.
Direct flights have long been in operation between Tel Aviv and
Cairo, since Egypt in 1979 became the first Arab country to sign a
peace accord with Israel.
The two countries have lately bolstered their ties.
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has twice visited Egypt
after coming to power in June, and met President Abdel Fattah
al-Sisi in September.
In early October, a plane branded with the logo of Egypt's
national carrier Egyptair landed in Israel for the first time, a
flight described as“historic” by the Israel Airport Authority.
Prior to that, Egyptian flights to Israel had been operated by
an Egyptair subsidiary, Air Sinai, set up exclusively for the
Israeli route and without displaying the Egyptian flag on the
exterior of its planes.
Tags:
- Egypt
- Israel
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