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UK Lifts ban on Egypt Resort Flights, 4 Years After Bombing

Associated Press

   LONDON - The British government says U.K. airlines can resume flights
   to the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, suspended after an Islamic
   State bombing that brought down a Russian passenger plane four years
   ago.
   The Department for Transport said on Tuesday that ``improvements in
   security procedures at the airport, and close co-operation between the
   U.K. and Egypt on aviation security, mean commercial airlines can now
   be allowed to operate routes to and from the airport.''
   The Sinai Peninsula resort had been a major package-holiday destination
   for British tourists before the November 2015 attack, which killed all
   224 people on board and was claimed by the Islamic State group.

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