By Mohamed Attia
Day after day and crisis after crisis, the Ministry of Civil Aviation, with its subsidiaries, proves that it is a lifeline for Egyptians stranded abroad due to political events or natural disasters of all kinds.
Perhaps what happened during the past few days is the best proof of this, as the Ministry of Civil Aviation, based on the directives of the political leadership, rushed to organise a number of flights for EgyptAir and Air Cairo to Poland and Romania to transport the Egyptian students stuck there after they crossed the Ukrainian borders to those two countries.
According to what was announced by the Egyptian Embassy in Budapest, the Egyptian authorities decided to send two planes daily from March 5 to March 11, 2022, in order to return Egyptian citizens coming from Ukraine to Egypt.
For its part, Cairo International Airport facilitated the procedures for the arrival of the returning Egyptians and they were received by the airport leaders and the Cairo Airport Company.
The return of Egyptians stranded in Ukraine is not the only time that the Ministry of Civil Aviation has played its national role towards the stranded people of Egypt in different parts of the world.
To Egypt, the starting blow was the implementation of the directives of President Abdel Fattah El Sisi from China, specifically from the city of Wuhan, where terror was controlling the world, but the Ministry of Civil Aviation was keen to send a medically equipped plane that transported more than 300 Egyptians stuck in the country of origin of the virus and a brave crew of pilots and hospitality, and everyone was booked upon their arrival in Marsa Matrouh.
This was followed by a flight that took off under the leadership of Minister of Civil Aviation Mohamed Manar to London.
The pilots also raced to carry out their work and operate the air bridge to bring back stranded people from different parts of the world.
In view of the political events in Libya, EgyptAir organised several years ago, specifically in 2014, an air bridge that was operated from the airports of Djerba and Gabes in Tunisia, where about 12,000 Egyptians were transported on the Libyan-Tunisian border.
Four flights were operated daily to transport stranded Egyptians in the fastest time possible to preserve their lives, especially with the escalation of events and conflict during that period on Libyan soil, which is the same thing that EgyptAir did to transport the stranded in Syria after the outbreak of the situation there.
