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Airplanes. Bring the Egyptian tourism to its knees. Meridiana intensely cuts the links to Egypt

Cairo, Egypt - Morsi's deposition, attacks, Metrojet crash and "Regeni case": all has contributed to the crisis of the holiday-maker industry

"From 44 to 4 per week": this is the fall of the links served by Meridiana to Egypt. Massimo Crippa, the director of the charter sales of the airline said it to "Nova": "The tourism in Egypt has been strongly hit. All have to to work more to return the tourists in this fantastic Country", he said, confirming the -90% of the Italian reservations for the next touristic season compared to 2015. "In line...

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Rome, Italy, 02/24/2016 11:06
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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