Flights to Sharm el-Sheikh delayed/cancelled

worried_jim

silvercar wrote: »

I would find your second statement reassuring.

I'm sure easy jet will get you back in the next few days.

We are all okay, including the four children with us- we have reassured them with what has happened. We have our villa for as long as we need so no worries with accommodation.

We have already noticed some other changes, the prices have gone up, the blue and white local buses have started to argue with us for the same fares we have been paying the last two weeks, not just the usual haggling but fierce arguments.

We have also had a few randoms approach us to apologise about the airport and to ask us to keep coming back to Egypt.

At present, we are preparing to be here for another week and are being kept informed by friends and family by text. My only concern is my insurance runs out today and I have a medical policy although my health is fine and I am not in danger.

silvercar

My only concern is my insurance runs out today and I have a medical policy although my health is fine and I am not in danger.

you may find there is something in the t&C that automatically extend if the return is delayed due to measures beyond your control.

worried_jim

silvercar wrote: »

you may find there is something in the t&C that automatically extend if the return is delayed due to measures beyond your control.

Yes, I have contacted them and this has been confirmed.

peachyprice

lulalola wrote: »

Only ten years ago a load of people were killed in suicide bomb attacks in London. Should we all be staying away from there too?

The two scenarios are completely different. In the London bombings there were no specific targets, just random poor souls who were going about their daily business. The attacks in Sharm/Egypt have a specific target - tourists. So why would any sane tourist choose to go to a destination to be a sitting duck?

Someone else mentioned Orlando being far more dangerous, however, that risk can be greatly reduced by people taking positive action and not making themselves an easy target. You don't get that choice with a terrorist attack, other than my avoiding destinations where tourists are the target.

peachyprice

jonesMUFCforever wrote: »

The problem now is overkill in Egypt re security - terrorists are not stupid enough to try the same thing from there; BUT every tourist visiting from now on will have to go through hell when going in and out.
Meanwhile some other airport somewhere in the world will get hit.

Exactly what some fools said after the first attack on tourists in Tunisia.

budgetflyer

When I was in Delhi @ Easter, you couldn't get on a train, without going thru very strict airport style security.

Pincher

I was in Hurghada about a year ago.
They said the Russians had stopped coming, and business was really down, because the Rouble collapsed.

It seems Russians and Germans prefer Hurghada, because the standards and prices are higher. Obviously that left Sharm el Sheik a cheap and cheerful Brit paradise.

So what if the Russians started going down market, flooding Sharm, and drew the IS there?

Say what you like, the Egyptian military/police has a pretty tight hold on things, the tour guide needs permits to go on excursions, and there are checkpoints everywhere.

Pincher

Not wishing to advertise, but KLM is doing £379 return to Taipei, and it's 25/32 degrees right now. A bit hotter than November average admittedly. I am pretty sure IS has no interest in Taiwan whatsoever. They have lots of beaches, and half the island is in the Tropics.

Moto2

Pincher wrote: »

Say what you like, the Egyptian military/police has a pretty tight hold on things, the tour guide needs permits to go on excursions, and there are checkpoints everywhere.

Obviously not tight enough to stop someone getting a bomb into the airport, getting it airside and then onto a plane.

Pincher

If security could be 100% effective, how do drugs get through all the time?

The Germans were obviously slackers, they could catch all the French Resistance and shoot them all if they were really trying. David Seaman, bad boy.