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Dec 7, 2021 | 5:04 pm

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Originally Posted by seat38a

What was up with TWA and Cairo? Government contract route? None of the US3 fly this route anymore so it must not be a big profit driver. If anything, I think United would be the first to bring back Cairo out of the US3.

In the 1970s, Egypt would not accept flights from airlines that also served Israel. So PA flew to TLV and TW flew to CAI.

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