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Or this ill faded flight departed. all flights into egypt. this is despite insistence from the kremlin that bomb theories are mere speculation. the kremlin has now said to be working on a plan to bring 50,000 russian vacationers home, a process now underway on a smaller scale with the brits. so i have richard quest with me, cnn aviation correspondent. also renee marsh is with us as well. renee, let me begin with you on the reporting. talk to me about it. this is inbound flights into the united states from certain airports overseas, yes? >> right, and they are being very vague. they don't list ...

The brits are trying to get vacationers outside of sharm. russia suspended flights into egypt as general. what about putin? when will we have a forceful response from putin? 244 people killed on the plane, majority russians. what does he need to say? >> it's putin's engineers and investigators who are on the ground looking at this wreckage. apparently, not sharing very much with the americans. so the fact that he has now said just to be on the safe side, we shouldn't fly in and out of egypt has led other officials to believe maybe they are on to something. maybe they found something in their a...

Shake which has been the only bright spot in the city that is absolutely just going to be decimated now in terms of the tourism industry. it will come back, history says it will. but the damage is going to be deep and it's going to be long lasting. that will take its toll on the egyptian economy that was about to see record numbers of tourism this it year. >> so the ramifications in egypt and sharm specifically, but there are other airliners. phi different british airlines flying in and out every day. this could have been others who would have been targeted. this was a russian passenger plane....

Conference, a major announcement at 10:00 a.m. so that may be a very significant announcement as part of the investigation. but for the russian point of view, if this is confirmed, we can expect a muscular response that this has traumatized russia and so many young families killed in what may be this terrible attack above the skies of egypt. so all options will be on the table in terms of going after isis in syria right now 90% of russian strikes are not going after isis. they are going after other rebel groups. that could change. there could be many more strikes against isis. that could be a ...

Environment, you have to pull out the planes or create a different rubric by which they fly. bring more security in with the aircraft. quarantine the aircraft when it lands. don't let people put hold luggage on. you have to completely rethink the architecture of aviation for those airports that may be at risk. >> if this was isis, and i say if, big, bold if, why sharm? >> that's where isis has a presence in the sinai peninsula so it would have been an opportunity for them. perhaps they managed to recruit somebody at the airport. this is a group that has a track record for recruiting egyptian m...