Air traffic with Egypt is likely to resume in January 2017, Russia’s Transport Minister Maxim Sokolov said.
The ministry has received Egypt’s consent on the Russia-initiated draft agreement on security at airports, according to Sokolov.
"In formal terms, we have not yet receives a note from the Egyptian foreign ministry but we already have a confirmation on the operating level that they agree in principle with our text," TASS cited the minister as saying.