Sharm el Sheikh International Airport on Saturday received a German tourist flight after more than a one-year halt.

As many as 188 German passengers arrived in the Egyptian resort on board a Fly Egypt jet.

Head of Fly Egypt's commercial sector Kareem Baqi said his company signed a contract with Germany's largest tour operators (FTI) to operate seven flights per week from Munich, Frankfurt, Hanover, and Leipzig, to Egypt's Sharm el Sheikh and Hurghada.

The contact covers tourist flights till October 2017, he added.

Baqi said 18 flights will be operated weekly from Germany, Switzerland, France and Austria to the Egyptian airports of Sharm El Sheikh, Hurghada and Marsa Alam as of April 2017.

Source: MENA