The first plane landed at Bernice International Airport in the Red Sea

Today, Monday, EgyptAir announced the landing of its first plane at Bernice International Airport in the Red Sea Governorate, near Halayeb and Shalateen.

Cairo – Sputnik. This flight is also the first to land at the airport, which opened in January 2020.

The Egyptian President inaugurated the Bernice International Airport in January of 2020, an airport located inside the Bernice Military Base, and it was a military airport, but it was converted for joint civil-military use at a cost of about 450 million pounds (about 28 million dollars).

The company said, in a statement, that “Berenice International Airport received the first EgyptAir plane with 60 passengers on board, as the airport administration organized a special reception for the plane, according to the protocol of the first flight landing at the airport, by imitation of spraying water on the plane, as an expression of celebration of the arrival of The first flight lands on the airport grounds.

The company pointed out that: The airport is “one of the most promising airports in stimulating the incoming tourism movement to Egypt due to the richness of this region in tourist destinations and its unique location on the Red Sea coast.”

The “Berenice International Airport” consists of a runway of 3650 meters in length and 60 meters in width, a civilian terminal with a capacity of about 8 aircraft, a passenger terminal with a capacity of 600 passengers per hour, a control tower with a height of 58 meters and 47 technical, administrative and service facilities. The airport was designed in record time and with the highest international standards and specifications. In the field of international airports.