flyEgypt was an
Egypt
Egypt ( , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a country spanning the Northeast Africa, northeast corner of Africa and Western Asia, southwest corner of Asia via the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to northe ...
ian
low-cost and
charter airline
Air charter is the business of renting an entire aircraft (i.e., chartering) as opposed to individual aircraft seats (i.e., purchasing a ticket through a traditional airline).
Regulation
Charter – also called air taxi or ad hoc – flight ...
headquartered in
Cairo
Cairo ( ; , ) is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Egypt and the Cairo Governorate, being home to more than 10 million people. It is also part of the List of urban agglomerations in Africa, largest urban agglomeration in Africa, L ...
.
History
The airline was founded in 2014 as a single class
charter
A charter is the grant of authority or rights, stating that the granter formally recognizes the prerogative of the recipient to exercise the rights specified. It is implicit that the granter retains superiority (or sovereignty), and that the ...
operator and started operations on 12 February 2015 with a flight between Cairo and
Jeddah
Jeddah ( ), alternatively transliterated as Jedda, Jiddah or Jidda ( ; , ), is a List of governorates of Saudi Arabia, governorate and the largest city in Mecca Province, Saudi Arabia, and the country's second largest city after Riyadh, located ...
. On 11 July 2015 it started a weekly seasonal service between Zürich and Marsa Alam.
[ On 21 October 2024, it was reported that FlyEgypt had ceased flight operations due to financial difficulties.
]
Destinations
, FlyEgypt served the following scheduled destinations (excluding seasonal charter operations):flyegypt.today - Flight
retrieved 6 December 2018
Fleet
, the FlyEgypt fleet consisted of the following aircraft:
References
External links
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Defunct airlines of Egypt
category:Airlines established in 2014
category:Airlines disestablished in 2024
Defunct low-cost airlines
Companies based in Cairo
Egyptian companies established in 2014
2024 disestablishments in Egypt
Conglomerate companies of Egypt