Originally Posted by
FlightlessParrot
Knowing the full details behind a delay is not going to get passengers to their destination any quicker.
No one is suggesting the source or anything related be released to the general public.
Here are some actual details from various governments, which would have been all that was required to keep the customers sufficiently abreast of why their flights were cancelled and their travel plans put into disarray:
Flights to Cairo suspended by British Airways and Lufthansa
The British government released updated travel advice for Egypt on Friday, warning against nonessential trips to most of the Sinai Peninsula and the area west of the Nile Valley and saying that travellers to Cairo should be cautious, too.
"There's a heightened risk of terrorism against aviation," the government said.
A US State Department travel warning on Friday also described "risks to civil aviation operating within or in the vicinity of Egypt," as well as "threats from terrorist and violent political opposition groups."