The new Marsa Alam airport in southeastern Egypt, which will serve the largest marina in the Middle East, was inaugurated Monday, November 5, the Kuwaiti group which runs the two infrastructures said.
A "Condor charter flight from Munich (Germany) landed at the international Marsa Alam airport Monday with 252 tourists on board," the Kharafi Company said in a statement.
Three years ago, Kharafi was granted a 40-year concession for the first international airport to be built on a build-operate-transfer basis. The Kuwaiti company said the port, with a capacity of 1,000 yachts, will open in 2003 or 2004 in Port Ghalib, a resort on the Red Sea, near Aswan.
The inauguration of the airport, which will be managed by the French company Aeroports de Paris, had been set for October 1 but was postponed following the September 11 jetliner attack on New York and Washington, a spokesman told AFP.
Germany's Condor and Aero Lloyd as well as Switzerland's Crossair are to run flights to Marsa Alam from Europe and around the Middle East. — (AFP, Cairo)
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