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Agents still uncertain over Sharm security

Government
TTG Staff
16 January 2019

Agents would still think twice about sending clients to Sharm el Sheikh despite a new call for the ban on UK flights to the popular Red Sea resort to be lifted, writes Stephen Glennon.

Going that extra mile (literally)

Flights were suspended in November 2015 after a suspected bomb downed a Russian Metrojet aircraft shortly after taking off from Sharm. All 224 passengers and crew were killed.


Tarek Adel, Egyptian ambassador to the UK, told the BBC at the weekend Sharm was “ready to receive once again direct flights from Britain” following airport security upgrades.


However, LAH Travel owner Linda Hill Miller said she was not convinced about the reassurances over security at Sharm and would not feel confident sending clients there.


“I don’t think Brits should return to Sharm,” she said. “If I was offered a free trip, I wouldn’t go, so I wouldn’t send my customers there.”