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2021-01-14 10:35:29 GMT2021-01-14 18:35:29(Beijing Time) Xinhua English CAIRO, Jan. 14 (Xinhua) -- EgyptAir, the national flagship carrier, decided to operate a daily flight to the Qatari capital Doha starting Jan. 18, the airline company said on Thursday. Egypt's Ministry of Civil Aviation on Tuesday announced lifting a three-and-half-year airspace ban on the Gulf country. "In light of the Egyptian government's decision of reopening the air traffic for resuming flights from and to Qatar, EgyptAir has decided to operate flight MS935/MS936 between Cairo and Doha starting from Jan. 18," ...

The Arab Quartet’s reconciliation with Qatar could lead to new regional alignments On January 5, the leaders of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) met at the ancient town of Al-Ula in Saudi Arabia to end the bitter discord that three of its members — Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Bahrain, along with Egypt — have had with their partner, Qatar. On June 5, 2017, the Arab Quartet, as they styled themselves, subjected Qatar to an onerous diplomatic boycott and a total land, sea and air embargo. They accused Qatar of destabilising the region with its support for Islamist groups. They then presen...

2021-01-12 14:05:59 GMT2021-01-12 22:05:59(Beijing Time) Xinhua English CAIRO, Jan. 12 (Xinhua) -- Egypt officially reopened its airspace to Qatari aircraft on Tuesday, ending over three years' airspace ban on the Gulf state, official news agency MENA reported on Tuesday. "The move allows EgyptAir, the country's flag carrier, and Qatar Airways to resume air traffic and exchange flight schedules between the Egyptian and Qatari civil authorities for approval," chairman of Egypt's Civil Aviation Authority Ashraf Noweir was quoted by MENA as saying. The aviation authority has also approved...

8222 Navdeep Suri Former ambassador to UAE THE smile and the hug with which Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) received the Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim Al Thani on January 5 spoke volumes of the shifting sands in the Gulf. Arriving for the 41st summit of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), this was the Qatari leader’s first visit to Saudi Arabia in three-and-a-half years. His arrival was preceded by an announcement from Nayef al Hajraf, the Kuwaiti Secretary General of the GCC, that Saudi Arabia had agreed to reopen its airspace as well as land and sea borders to Qatar. The presenc...

CAIRO: Hours after the GCC Summit in AlUla in Saudi Arabia that witnessed Gulf reconciliation in the presence of Egyptian officials, the Qatari Diar Real Estate Investment Company opened the St. Regis Hotel in Cairo. The inauguration came in the presence of Qatari Minister of Finance Ali Sharif Al-Emadi and his Egyptian counterpart, Mohamed Maait. Al-Emadi is the first official to board a Qatari plane crossing Saudi and Egyptian airspace, directly from Doha to Cairo, since the outbreak of the crisis between Qatar and the Arab Quartet in June 2017. The visit of the Qatari minister to Egypt is ...