British Airways Suspends Cairo Flights for Seven Days
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British Airways Suspends Cairo Flights for Seven Days
Something's up in CAI.
CAIRO, July 20 (Reuters) - British Airways suspended flights to Cairo for seven days starting Saturday as a precaution to allow for an assessment of security there, the airline said in a statement.
“We constantly review our security arrangements at all our airports around the world, and have suspended flights to Cairo for seven days as a precaution to allow for further assessment,” the statement said.
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British Airways suspends flights to Cairo for seven days -statement
CAIRO, July 20 (Reuters) - British Airways suspended flights to Cairo for seven days starting Saturday as a precaution to allow for an assessment of security there, the airline said in a statement.
“We constantly review our security arrangements at all our airports around the world, and have suspended flights to Cairo for seven days as a precaution to allow for further assessment,” the statement said.
With 'warms regards'
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Looks like you got the letter as you were about to leave LHR. I'm in CAI and was due to fly back this week. Not to be. Offered routes via LOS and ACC if I want to get back earlier. Much longer travel time plus a long connection so have opted for their first flight when they are back in service.
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It would appear from the Cairo Airport website that it is only British Airways flights that are affected, and Egyptair flights to Heathrow continue as normal. Couldn't BA just transfer their pax onto the upcoming flights by Egyptair??
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Er, what exactly has warkman said to upset you Globocnik? The airlines themselves have stated that it's for security reasons, which is pretty obvious anyway. I guess that intelligence organisations have got wind of something and the airlines have been notified.
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According to the BBC coverage https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-49059700
A BA spokesman said: "We constantly review our security arrangements at all our airports around the world,and have suspended flights to Cairo for seven days as a precaution to allow for further assessment".
Which suggests that it may not be back to normal after the seven days.
Which suggests that it may not be back to normal after the seven days.
Looks like you got the letter as you were about to leave LHR. I'm in CAI and was due to fly back this week. Not to be. Offered routes via LOS and ACC if I want to get back earlier. Much longer travel time plus a long connection so have opted for their first flight when they are back in service.
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If its a threat to blow up an aircraft, or hijack one, or because of more civil unrest or protests in Cairo, or US drones flying in the airspace, then say so. Its not hard or unreasonable to keep your customers informed WHY you are causing them grief.
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Its not unreasonable to be advised what the issue is, "Security reasons" really doesn't say anything.
If its a threat to blow up an aircraft, or hijack one, or because of more civil unrest or protests in Cairo, or US drones flying in the airspace, then say so. Its not hard or unreasonable to keep your customers informed WHY you are causing them grief.
If its a threat to blow up an aircraft, or hijack one, or because of more civil unrest or protests in Cairo, or US drones flying in the airspace, then say so. Its not hard or unreasonable to keep your customers informed WHY you are causing them grief.
If it's security related, if you don't know, you don't need to know. (not the apples BTW)
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I remember being a visitor to London some years ago, and on the underground train, it stopped in the middle of a tunnel, and a few minutes later the driver came on and said 1 station up the lone had been closed due to a bomb threat, and we were delayed until it was safe.
I was extremely happy to wait and that they told me what was going on, if he had just said "you are delayed indefinitely due to a security issue" then the entire train would have been up in arms and extremely unhappy.
I also remember thinking at the time, that was much better than what would have happened in Australia, where the authorities would have treated us like mushrooms, and told us nothing. Like is happening here just saying a "security" issue.
I was extremely happy to wait and that they told me what was going on, if he had just said "you are delayed indefinitely due to a security issue" then the entire train would have been up in arms and extremely unhappy.
I also remember thinking at the time, that was much better than what would have happened in Australia, where the authorities would have treated us like mushrooms, and told us nothing. Like is happening here just saying a "security" issue.
Dee Vee - you realize that saying something like 'we have solid intelligence that XYZ plans to bomb a BA flight from Cairo to London, so BA is cancelling those flights' could easy let the bad guys know exactly where their information leak is? Are you willing to have an intelligence source tortured and killed just to satisfy your "need to know".
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Hows your WWII history? You remember something called "Ultra"? Do you know that Ultra was considered so secret, and so critical to the Allied war effort, that sometimes the Allies intentionally didn't act on Ultra intelligence - allowing a German attack to proceed unmolested rather than tip their hand that they'd broken the German code and knew what they were up to?
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Knowing the full details behind a delay is not going to get passengers to their destination any quicker.