Cairo Airport is a no-fly zone



Tank across the street from our hotel made us feel safe, until it moved out on Sunday

Sunday

Back to no internet. Our link to the outside world, the business center had a “closed” sign, directing us to the harried front desk personnel. Cell phone was working, though. Curfew is now 2 hours earlier- at 4PM. Still no ability to get info on our Egypt Air flight, but curfew time is obviously headed in the wrong direction for a 6:55PM scheduled departure the following day. We received a crucial nugget of info from our Welsh friends' daughter who was able to get up on Egypt Air.com that our flight was nowhere in evidence, not cancelled, but just like it didn’t exist.

With Jim’s help, once we knew that Royal Air Maroc was tripling fares for earlier flights out, we went ahead and booked partially refundable flights to Casablanca for Thursday at 3:15PM, earlier than curfew, we thought. Chris would have missed his BA flight back across the pond by 2 days. Jim later heard the news bulletin that the US was rescuing stranded Americans with emergency evacuation flights, which was great news in any event because the horror stories of Cairo airport were surfacing.  Here is what was on the web about it a couple of days later: