DL 85 will depart at 10:30 AM Jan 29 and all other traffic suspended indefinitely.
Actually DL84 tonight JFK-CAI and DL85 tomorrow CAI-JFK are both already canceled.
And one can book JFK-CAI for Sunday Jan 30th through reservation systems so that seems strange if traffic is "suspended indefinitely." Would be nice for DL to inform the outlets that sell their flights!
ATLANTA (Reuters) - Delta Air Lines Inc has suspended service to Cairo indefinitely as a result of the civil unrest in Egypt, the U.S. carrier said on its Twitter site on Friday. A company representative confirmed the move.
The carrier added its last flight will leave Cairo on January 29 and the resumption of service was to be determined.
The State Department has advised U.S. citizens to postpone nonessential travel to Egypt amid widespread protests demanding the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak.
On Monday (1/24), I sat in a JFK SC with a small group of country club-esque housewives who were on their way to Egypt for a week long vacation including a cruise on the Nile. God knows what they're going through currently, but they're going to learn about a very different kind of IRROPS when trying to get out.
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A colleague (US CItizen) is in Cairo now, was supposed to fly out tomorrow, saturday back. Had tried to change to today or yesterday, but all were lready full.
ANyone have any idea what Delta wants those with tickets and the need to come back should do?
Phone service is nearly impossible, so we're trying to get plans in advance for our friend for the rare instance w can reach him to give him guidance. he can't access internet or call ut there, we get lucky and sometimes get a call into him, land line only, no cell phone....
A colleague (US CItizen) is in Cairo now, was supposed to fly out tomorrow, saturday back. Had tried to change to today or yesterday, but all were lready full.
ANyone have any idea what Delta wants those with tickets and the need to come back should do?
Phone service is nearly impossible, so we're trying to get plans in advance for our friend for the rare instance w can reach him to give him guidance. he can't access internet or call ut there, we get lucky and sometimes get a call into him, land line only, no cell phone....
He could look into KLM or AF to AMS or CDG. Could also look at flying from CAI-DXB or AMM and getting the Delta flights from there.
If nothing is available out of Cairo I would look into going to Sharm and looking for any flight to Europe/Jordan/UAE.
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Unfortunately, they are strucks at the airports due to violence in Egypt. I do not appreciate it for the behavioral. IT was too many problems in Cairo, Egypt. They are very vulnerable and it was trying to stops throw the rocks and explosives into the store. It should wait for settles down and try to controlled the behaviors. I am afraid the flight will be cancelled until the further notice. There is lots of the Egyptians police is on the streets and they will have more spray on those people and try to stops the violence. This is unacceptable for the behaviors and they doesn't have a chance to changes the behavioral.
Most international carriers carry on unless the situation is wildly out of control. In the midst of the iranian revolution BA, SR, LH, PA and all the regional carriers kept flying. Even during the Lebanon civil wars there has been very limited flight cessation.
I understand the risks, but I do think the US carriers listen to the fear-mongerers at the US State Department rather too much.
A colleague (US CItizen) is in Cairo now, was supposed to fly out tomorrow, saturday back. Had tried to change to today or yesterday, but all were lready full.
ANyone have any idea what Delta wants those with tickets and the need to come back should do?
Phone service is nearly impossible, so we're trying to get plans in advance for our friend for the rare instance w can reach him to give him guidance. he can't access internet or call ut there, we get lucky and sometimes get a call into him, land line only, no cell phone....
Presumably he's in touch with the embassy as well. If things start going too far downhill, I imagine the embassy will start figuring out ways to help US citizens who need to get out. The British Foreign & Commonwealth Office has not yet called for UK citizens to leave Egypt, while they did so very early on in the Tunisia situation. (For various reasons, I follow @foreignoffice on Twitter but don't have any US State Dept accounts in my timeline.)
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We got him rebooked on Airfrance via Paris leaving Sunday instead of saturday.
BA has also suspended flights, but may resume tomorrow, they "postponed" tonights flight, mostly due to the curfew hours.
Remember any flight arriving/departing 6pm to 7am has issues with people getting to/from the airport....which affects the flight schedules.
FOxNews just reported ALL flights in and out of cairo are suspended, not just Delta. EgyptAir suspended earlier today - maybe the started the whole flight cancellation issue. I don't have issue with delta cancelling....who really wants to go there now anyway.
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I understand the risks, but I do think the US carriers listen to the fear-mongerers at the US State Department rather too much.
A more rational concern would be that Delta doesn't want to do crew overnights, taking staff off-airport, a problem that regional carriers can easily avoid.
A cessation of this magnitude is going to affect a lot of pax. There goes the need for 2 76T as well, I wonder what DL will do with these birds in the mean time since JFK-AMM is really the only other route that "needs" 12+ hour config (JFK/ATL-ACC operated without the 76T when they used to be on JFK-TLV/CAI/AMM exclusively which utilized the whole subfleet)...
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This irritates me.
Most international carriers carry on unless the situation is wildly out of control. In the midst of the iranian revolution BA, SR, LH, PA and all the regional carriers kept flying. Even during the Lebanon civil wars there has been very limited flight cessation.
I understand the risks, but I do think the US carriers listen to the fear-mongerers at the US State Department rather too much.
So much for that theory.
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FOxNews just reported ALL flights in and out of cairo are suspended, not just Delta.
