Sharm El Sheikh

For the first time, charter flights to Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, will take off from the Sibiu International Airport this April, according to a press statement released by the airport on Thursday. The flights that will be operated in partnership with the Cocktail Holidays tour operator and EgyptAir will depart every Saturday, between April 3 - May 8, 2021.

The visit of Prime Minister Boyko Borisov to Egypt continues, reported the Bulgarian National Television. 

The Bulgarian Prime Minister arrived yesterday in Sharm El-Sheikh for the first high-level summit between the Heads of State and Government of the European Union and the League of Arab States.

Prime Minister Boyko Borissov arrived in Sharm El-Sheikh for the first EU-US Summit of Heads of State and Government and the League of Arab States (LAD), reported NOVA TV. 

The Forum aims to highlight the need for enhanced strategic relations between the EU and the Arab world, as well as to set guidelines for addressing global challenges.

British travel group Thomas Cook said on Feb. 9 that demand for holidays in Egypt is picking up again, after unrest in the North African nation had pushed holidaymakers into choosing rival sun spots.

A string of British airlines have again delayed the resumption of regular flights to the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh following a plane crash earlier this year.

The airlines first suspended flights after the crash of a Russian airliner near the Red Sea holiday destination on Oct. 31 in which all 224 people on board died.

Egypt said on Dec. 14 that it still has no evidence to back up Moscow's analysis that a "terrorist" attack had downed a Russian passenger plane at the end of October in the Sinai Peninsula.

The jihadist Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) said it smuggled a bomb on board that blew up the Russian jet on Oct. 31, killing all 224 people on board.

Easyjet, who along with other airlines had cancelled all flights to Sharm el-Sheikh up to this week, said today that all flights to and from the Egyptian resort would be cancelled until 6 January.

The man who caused a Hurghada-bound Polish plane to perform an emergency landing in Burgas, Bulgaria and admitted to having joked about a bomb on board may be sentenced to up to 15 years in prison, Bulgarian authorities say.

The Islamic State (IS) group said on Wednesday that a homemade bomb had brought down the Russian Airbus A321 in Egypt in October, Reuters reported.

The English-language Dabiq magazine of the jhihadist organization published a photo of a Schweppes soft drink can and "what appeared to be a detonator and switch", the newswire said.

Russian Security Service (FSB) head Alexander Bortnikov said that the explosion of a homemade bomb of up to 1kg of TNT equivalent was the cause of the crash of the Kogalymavia flight 9268 A321 airbus over Sinai, Egypt, while en route from Sharm El-Sheikh to St. Petersburg on October 31.