Egyptian Civil Aviation Minister Younis al-Masry will oversee on Saturday the official inauguration of the Sphinx International Airport following successful experimental flights. Masry will see the take off of some domestic flights to Luxor, Aswan, Hurghada and Sharm al-Sheikh. Egypt Air’s first flights from the Sphinx airport took off on Friday to the Luxor International Airport and the Aswan airport. Egypt Air sources say that it is scheduled to make flights from Sphinx International Airport to Luxor, Aswan, Sharm al-Sheikh and Hurghada airports and vice versa. Construction work on the Sphinx Airport began in 2016, and was registered and calibrated by the ICAO.

Source: Egypt Independent January 26, 2019 10:52 UTC