Egypt launches low-cost airline Air Sphinx

The Ministry of Civil Aviation in Egypt is preparing to launch a low-cost airline, Air Sphinx, in the winter of 2022-2023. As a subsidiary of EgyptAir, the new carrier will operate from the international airports of Hurghada, Sharm El Sheikh, Luxor, Sphinx and Cairo, with the aim of stimulating incoming tourism and providing new services to a large segment of travellers and tourists at lower rates than regular airlines. Civil Aviation minister, Captain Muhammad Manar said all the major companies in the aviation world have an arm for low-cost aviation, pointing out that an entity affiliated with EgyptAir should have been established to be fully low-cost a long time ago. “We are in the process of contracting with a number of aircraft,” he stated in a phone interview on a TV show this week; “The plane from the inside is different from the normal plane; the plane is completely economical, the seat space is close, the number of bags accompanied by passengers, the service is entirely different from the big planes and works on tourist destinations.”<br/>Azizofegypt, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons “This translates to a difference price other than that of the regular ticket; the prices of domestic flights were up to 4600 EGP, and we were able to go down with ticket prices to Luxor and Hurghada between 1500-1800 EGP.” He continued, “Most of the companies that come from abroad to visit tourist destinations in Egypt are low-cost airlines, and the establishment of the new entity is going hand in hand with the Ministry of Tourism.” The new company will be called Air Sphinx, and it will operate from all tourist destinations from its base at the Sphinx Airport in Giza, where the airport has been renovated and deserves to be the airport dedicated to serving visitors and tourists of the Great Museum, which<br/>is scheduled to open at the end of this year, in a global event that will be the focus of attention in this area.”<br/>