The eco-friendly flight was led by Pilot Mohamed Manar, Minister of Civil Aviation, heading to Paris and on with 219 passengers on board.
The plane took off on its flight number "799 MS" of the Boeing 787-9 "Dreamliner", known as the Dream Plane.
This flight will be recorded in the history of EgyptAir as the first flight operated by the national company with environmentally friendly services and the first among African airlines. This flight coincides with the Ministry of Aviation's celebration of the 92nd National Day of Egyptian Civil Aviation, on January 26.
Manar stated that the strategy of the Ministry of Civil Aviation in the field of environment comes from the directives of the political leadership, which attaches great importance to the environment file and the efforts of the Egyptian state in all international forums to confront the phenomenon of climate change and keep pace with Egypt’s Vision 2030.
Manar added that the success of this flight with environmentally friendly services and products will be the beginning of their generalization in the future in line with the Ministry of Aviation’s plan to confront the effects of climate change through the presence of an integrated and sustainable environmental system that applies all local and international recommendations and legislation in the field of aviation-related to environmental protection and pollution reduction.
On his part, Pilot Amr Aboul-Enein, head of the holding company for EgyptAir, who will pilot the plane on the return flight from Paris, expressed his happiness to operate the first flight with environmentally friendly services and products.
He noted that EgyptAir will be the first airline in Africa to operate this flight, adding that it is planned in the future that all the national company’s flights will be environmentally friendly.
This procedure affirms EgyptAir's specialty in the air transport industry, being the first airline established in Africa and the Middle East, and the seventh in the world, as the company celebrates this year its 90th anniversary.
The head of EgyptAir Holding manifested that the national company aims for 2022 to be the start of many "sustainable development initiatives", as a timetable has been set for all flights to Europe with environmentally friendly products and services by 2025, to be circulated on all flights of the airline network, successively.
EgyptAir aims to reduce single-use plastics on flights by 90 percent. The airline has identified 27 single-use plastic products, which have been replaced with sustainable alternatives.
Tags: Egyptian Civil Aviation, EgyptAir
