Tarek Adel told the BBC work with British security experts to improve security at its airports was now complete.
UK flights to the popular Red Sea resort were halted after a Russian airliner was blown out the sky in October 2015 shortly after taking off from Sharm.
The ban has remained in place ever since, with two members of the government’s all-party parliamentary group on Egypt repeatedly telling TTG they saw no prospect of the ban being lifted.
