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EgyptAir is to offer ticket discounts of up to 50 percent for both domestic and international flights between May 23 and August 1.
The promotional offer was announced by Safwat Mesallam, chairman of EgyptAir Holding Company, who said the offer was planned to coincide with the summer vacations.
Messallem said the company currently provides 50 flights per day, 38 international and 12 domestic, on average, with plans to increase capacity to 108 flights.
The announcement of ticket discounts comes on day after the company announced the resumption of its normal flight schedule after industrial action by pilots resulted in severe disruption to flights over a four-day period.
Forty flights were cancelled or delayed when the company's pilots went on strike to demand higher wages.
EgyptAir announced that it had agreed to a 40 percent increase in pilot salaries, along with salary increases for staff in all areas of operations.
Pilots and other staff at EgyptAir have held industrial action several times in recent years, as the national carrier and the aviation industry in general continue to suffer due to political unrest, terrorism and a loss of tourism revenue.
In September 2012, EgyptAir cabin crew went on strike to demand better working conditions. Then in June 2013, EgyptAir pilots went on strike to demand pay raises and more benefits, causing some cancellations. In May of 2015, pilots threatened to resign over company rules that said pilots could fly for up to 14 hours per day, a rule that pilots said was illegal.
EgyptAir is a member of the Star Alliance and services more than 75 desinations in the MENA region, Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas.
The move is aimed at combating an acute shortage of foreign currency
Ahram Online , Thursday 29 Sep 2016
Egypt is stopping the sale of air tickets for routes starting and ending outside the country as of next week, the aviation ministry said on Thursday, in a bid to help ease an acute shortage of foreign currency in recent months.
The new measure comes after "a significant increase from the normal rates of the sales" of such tickets by some local travel agencies that has been noticed recently, the ministry said in a statement.
The ministry has made the decision to stop any attempt to make use of the difference between the dollar's official price and that of the black market, but did not elaborate.
Ministry's officials contacted by Ahram Online were not immediately available for comment.
The decision will come in to effect as of 5 October and will continue to be in place for a year.
Egypt is facing an acute dollar shortage that sent its foreign reserves down, with a widening gap between official and black market rates that has increased pressure to devalue the currency.
In recent months, many banks reduced its foreign currency's withdrawal and purchasing limits through cash dealings for local debit and credit cards.
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Egypt is postponing a fee hike in tourist entry visas - a decision announced last week - until July, the country’s tourism ministry said on Saturday.
In statements to state news agency MENA, the ministry said the new fee -- which will increase from $25 to $60 -- will be implemented starting 1 July 2017, instead of a planned 1 March date.
The ministry did not provide a reason for the delay, however, sources in the tourism sector told Al-Ahram Arabic news website that the decision to postpone came after the foreign ministry stepped in to deal with complaints from the tourism sector to the cabinet saying the fee hike was too abrupt.
Representatives from the sector reached out to the cabinet last week to ask it to adjust the timeline for the fee hike, in order to maintain agreements with foreign travel operators based on the old rates.
Egypt last increased its visa fee in April 2014, from $15 to $25.
Some in the tourism sector say the decision should have been announced several months beforehand, expressing fears that the move could affect the country's efforts to revive tourism, a pillar of the economy and a key source of foreign currency.
Egypt has struggled to attract tourists scared off by the political turmoil that followed the 2011 uprising which ousted president Hosni Mubarak.
The country’s revenues from tourism dropped to $3.4 billion in 2016 -- a 44.3 percent decline from the previous year -- the Central Bank of Egypt said in January.
The figure is a far cry from the $11 billion in revenues generated by the sector in 2010, when 14.7 million tourists visited the country.
