Flights delays continued on Friday at Cairo International Airport despite the end of the twenty-two-hour strike staged by air traffic controllers late on Wednesday.
Passengers were heavily crammed into departure halls Friday morning, especially those booked to travel on Egypt Airlines, said an official source at Cairo International Airport.
Dozens of flights were delayed for over one hour due to an insufficient number of aircrafts. Planes were diverted to other airports on Thursday during the strike, added the official source.
There were altercations between passengers and employees.
A source expected flights to return to normal within hours, saying: "In such cases, the repercussions continue for 24 hours, especially on Egypt Air flights due to their heavy traffic, which amounts to more than one hundred flights a day internationally and domestically."
Translated from the Arabic Edition
