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CAIRO (Alliance News) - Some easyJet flights to carry tourists from Sharm el-Sheikh airport have been cancelled after the British carrier sought to operate 18 flights and leave passengers' check-in luggage behind, Egyptian Civil Aviation Minister Hossam Kamal says.
"Leaving this luggage to be transported separately would have placed a big burden on the airport, which cannot handle this," Kamal says.
"We suggested that eight flights be operated and the passengers' bags be transported by a cargo plan to ensure that air traffic at the airport will not be disrupted."
He added that Egypt is facing a "fierce campaign" aimed at discrediting it after suggestions that last week's Russian plane crash in Sinai might have been caused by a bomb.
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