Emirates increases Cairo frequencies

Dubai-Egypt bilateral air accord further liberalized allowing Emirates to increase their own Cairo-DXB services from 21 to 25 weekly B777-300s effective 28Oct which have been opened for sale. It seems that Egypt is another state blocking EKs A380 entry into the CAI marketplace. P2P demand on DXB CAI over the past 3 years were as follows: *round trip pax below* 2016 - 589,000 2017 - 734,000 2018 - 796,000