Tui has insisted it remains safe to visit Sharm el Sheikh and in Egypt and it will continue to fly customers there today (Tuesday, February 01, 2011) as well as taking more bookings. The operator’s communications director Christian Cull said the operator was bringing customers back from Aswan and avoiding Cairo and Luxor as the Foreign Office advised, but would continue taking people to Sharm by air and by cruise ship.
There has been some implied criticism in the UK press about holiday companies continuing to sell cheap deals to Egypt but operators point out that the region is geographically separated from the places where the protests have been concentrated.
“Sharm is safe and we are flying people there today and tomorrow and we are still selling it,” said Christian Cull Tui’s communications director at a Cimtig debate last night.
“I am confident the situation is safe in Sharm. We can’t be complacent because this is a fluid situation. If it was the wrong thing to do, we wouldn’t do it.”
Cull, who had to leave the event early to attend a government meeting about Egypt, said ministers were satisfied from information on the ground that Sharm was as safe.
“A cruise ship went to Sharm because it could not go into Cairo and our passengers on the ship do not want to fly home. They want to stay on the ship and go back to Sharm as scheduled,” he said.
Cull added that Tui had brought people home from Luxor and Aswan, but did not have anyone in Cairo, and it was estimated that about only 30 Britons were still in the city.
And here is our Web Roundup “Is it Safe to Fly to Egypt”:
I think now in egypt is safe & good to visit now as it is not busy at all