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Egypt Air temporarily suspends its flights to Juba
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April 2, 2011 (KHARTOUM) — The state owned airline company of Egypt
Air announced today that it has decided to temporarily suspend its
flights to South Sudan capital of Juba saying it has recently became
unprofitable.
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Hussein Massoud president of Egypt Air told state owned Al-Ahram
newspaper that the number of passengers kept diminishing to the point
where in some instances only twenty seats were filled on a given
flight. The report said that the airline sent a memo to the Egyptian
Prime Minister in this regard for possible government aid to support
the Cairo-Juba flights.
Egypt Air launched the route in mid-2010 with two flights a week to
Juba as part of a strategy to expand in Africa.
Parmena Makuet Mangar, who heads the Government of South Sudan liaison
office in Egypt, told Al-Ahram from Juba that this move generated
shock in the South particularly in light of recent visit by the
Egyptian Prime minister Essam Sharaf.
South Sudan will officially become an independent state next July
after its citizens made that choice in the referendum held last
January.
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