EgyptAir will also offer three flights per week on the 5,198-mi. The Airbus A350-900 service will provide competition for Star Alliance member EgyptAir’s new Shanghai-Cairo service, which launches on Nov. Three roundtrips per week will be available on Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays, with a flight time of about 13 hr. 11 when it commences flights between Shanghai and the Egyptian capital Cairo. However, the service was suspended one year later, ending the airline’s foray into the African market.Ĭhina Eastern will make a return to the region from Dec.

Tambo International Airport via Malé, the capital of the Maldives.

The Shanghai-headquartered carrier previously offered passenger flights to South Africa from April 2007, operating a route from Shanghai Pudong International Airport (PVG) to Johannesburg’s O.R. China Eastern Airlines is adding a new nonstop connection between mainland China and Egypt from December, marking the SkyTeam alliance member’s return to the African continent after an absence of more than 15 years.