The first test flight in Africa, operated by the national company, EgyptAir, with environmentally friendly services, led by Pilot Mohamed Manar, Minister of Civil Aviation, departed from Cairo International Airport, heading to Paris.
This comes within the framework of the Ministry of Civil Aviation's strategy to achieve sustainable development and preserve the environment.
The plane took off this morning, Saturday, on its Boeing 787-9 "Dreamliner" flight number "MS 799", a flight that will be recorded in the history of EgyptAir as the first flight operated by the "national" company with environmentally friendly services and the first among African airlines. This flight coincides with the Ministry of Aviation's celebration of the 92nd National Day of Egyptian Civil Aviation, which falls on January 26 of each year, and it had 219 passengers on board.
The Minister of Civil Aviation leads the first flight with "environmentally friendly services" between Cairo and Paris
Pilot Mohamed Manar, Minister of Civil Aviation, stated that "the strategy of the Ministry of Civil Aviation in the field of environment comes from the directives of the political leadership, which pays great attention to the environment file and the efforts of the Egyptian state in all international forums to confront the phenomenon of climate change and keep pace with Egypt's Vision 2030."
Manar added, "The success of this flight with environmentally friendly services and products will be the beginning of its dissemination in the future in line with the Ministry of Aviation's plan to confront the effects of climate change through the presence of an integrated and sustainable environmental system that applies all local and international recommendations and legislation in the field of aviation related to environmental protection and pollution reduction. ".
For his part, the pilot, Amr Aboul-Enein, President of the “EgyptAir Holding Company”, who will lead the plane on the return flight from Paris, expressed his happiness to operate the first flight with environmentally friendly services and products, so that EgyptAir will be the first airline in Africa to operate this flight, noting that “it is from It is planned in the future that all the company’s flights will be environmentally friendly, which confirms EgyptAir’s leadership in the air transport industry, being the first airline established in Africa and the Middle East, and the seventh in the world, as the company celebrates this year its 90th anniversary.”
The head of "EgyptAir Holding" added that "the national company aims for 2022 to be the beginning of the launch of many sustainable development initiatives, as a timetable has been set for all flights to Europe with environmentally friendly products and services by 2025, to be circulated on all flights of the airline network. air successively.
The "EgyptAir" plan aims to reduce the use of plastic materials (single use) on its flights by 90%, and the company identified 27 products made of plastic (single use) that were used on its planes and replaced them with environmentally friendly products.
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