After six year ban, Russia has given permission to reactivate charter flights to Egypt, news that has been received with fear by its main competitor, Turkey.
In November 2015, the Kremlin issued a decree that paralyzed air traffic to the country of the pharaohs. This decision was made after a Metrojet plane suffered a terrorist attack and crashed on the Sinai Peninsula, killing 224 people.
Now, President Vladimir Putin has given the go-ahead for operations to resume and thus has kicked off the reopening of Egyptian resorts, eager to receive visitors to what was one of its most important markets.
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In Turkey this decision has been greeted with fear. The Ottoman edition of the diary Haberrus; has described the return of Egypt as a threat to Turkey that can translate into the loss of “hundreds of thousands of tourists.” For its part, the Turkish edition of DW dares to encrypt the loss of Russian tourists by 500,000.
“The resumption of charter flights with Egypt will negatively affect the Turkish tourism sector. Hundreds of thousands of tourists from Russia planning a vacation to Turkey will head to Egypt. The Turkish tourism business will have to compete with Egypt, which follows a dumping pricing policy“Say the Turks, who say that their” neighbors “sell below their normal price.
It should be remembered that Turkey had just regained the Russian market, since the Kremlin banned flights to Turkey between mid-April and June 22.
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