CAIRO – 2 March 2022: Cairo International Airport received on Tuesday the first Egyptian flight coming from Romania to repatriate 175 Egyptian students who left Ukraine due to the ongoing conflict.
The plane was operated by Air Cairo, which belongs to the flag carrier EgyptAir, also carried six members of the Egyptian Red Crescent and quarantine teams.
Ambassador Salah El-Din Abdel-Sadiq, Assistant Foreign Minister for Consular Affairs, had headed to Bucharest to follow up on all arrangements for returning the stranded citizens, who left Ukraine for Bucharest.