British Airways flights to Egypt

Russian Metrojet Airbus A321 crashes in Sinai – video clip report

Several huge center Eastern and European air companies have said they will steer clear of the section of Egyptian airspace where a Russian airplane came down on Saturday.

The biggest Gulf flight, Emirates, and its own subsidiary flydubai, also Air Arabia, said these people were rerouting flights across the peninsula where the Russian Metrojet trip crashed immediately after takeoff from Sharm el-Sheikh, killing all 224 men and women aboard.

Lufthansa and Air France-KLM have decided to stop traveling on the peninsula even though the dangers tend to be evaluated after an Islamic militant team reported to possess shot the plane down – a claim that Moscow features up to now dismissed.

An easyJet spokesman stated its airplanes were currently perhaps not traveling across north and central Sinai dispute zone. “As happens to be the case for quite a while before yesterday’s incident, easyJet like other UK air companies will not fly over northern and main Sinai, the region regarding the event.”

British Airways planes to and from Sharm tend to be thought as after an equivalent path along the Gulf of Suez although the flight wouldn't normally confirm it. A BA spokesman stated: “We never talk about the information on individual routes but we would not fly a route unless it was safe doing. The Security of our customers is almost always the number 1 priority.”

EasyJet said individuals which no longer wished to travel could be supplied either an alternative solution flight or a voucher. “The safety of your consumers and crew is our highest concern, ” a spokesman stated.

Guidance from the division of Transport from December 2014 tells air companies in order to prevent flying below 25, 000 legs over northern Sinai. That advice had been reissued in September this current year.

The Metrojet Airbus A321-200 achieved 31, 000 feet before it crashed and professionals have-been sceptical that militants in Sinai would have weapons with the capacity of shooting down a plane at such a height. Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 had been flying at 33, 000 feet when it had been shot down over eastern Ukraine in July 2014.

The Overseas Air Transport Association labeled as a year ago for better sharing of data between airlines following the MH17 crash as well as other threats. Such info is usually jealously guarded and contains led to airlines taking different decisions over which airspace is regarded as safe.

• This article ended up being amended on Monday 2 November to simplify that easyJet planes are not flying over central and northern Sinai while on the way to Sharm el-Sheikh and BA routes had been thought as traveling an equivalent path