Los Angeles Welcomes EgyptAir After More Than 2 Decades

Thrice Weekly Services Between Cairo And Los Angeles

The Egyptian flag carrier announced back in February that it would be expanding its United States operations with the resumption of Los Angeles and a new service to Chicago. The service to Los Angeles will operate three times weekly, which was last served back in 2001, and was a Cairo – New York JFK – Los Angeles routing.

Onboard the airline’s A350-900, EgyptAir offers a configuration of 330 seats, with 30 in the carrier’s business class, and 310 in economy. Chicago flights are set to commence in June, with a three-weekly service on the same aircraft type to take off from June 21.

Currently, EgyptAir already operates to two other U.S. destinations, including Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR) and Washington Dulles International Airport (IAD). These new flights to Los Angeles and Chicago are designed to benefit both the tourism sector and business travel, and furthermore, connecting the Middle Eastern communities that live across the United States.

Non-Stop From Cairo To Los Angeles

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The thrice-weekly service is scheduled to depart from Cairo on Monday, Thursday, and Saturday, with the service taking approximately 14 hours and 50 minutes non-stop. Departing from Cairo as MS983 at 8:30 AM, the service travels through the daytime for an early afternoon arrival into Los Angeles at 1:20 PM.

Return flights depart on the same day, leaving Los Angeles as MS984 at 5:25 PM in the evening and traveling overnight with a next-day arrival into The City of a Thousand Minarets ( Cairo) at 5:10 PM (+1 Day). This has an approximate flight time of around 13 hours, 45 minutes. The first flight, which touched down this week, was celebrated by Los Angeles International Airport, as shared on the airport’s Facebook page:

EgyptAir joins other airlines offering non-stop flights the Middle East, Northern Africa and western Asian carriers from the region including EL AL to Tel Aviv (TLV), Emirates to Dubai (DXB), Qatar Airways to Doha (DOH), Saudia to Jeddah (JED), Royal Air Maroc to Casablanca (CMN) – beginning June 7), and Turkish Airlines to Istanbul (IST).

Non-Stop Flights To Chicago From June

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As already mentioned, EgyptAir will also launch non-stop flights to the Windy City from June, with a direct flight to Chicago O’Hare (ORD) set to commence on June 21. These flights will depart from Cairo as MS947 on Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday, leaving Cairo at 12:50 AM, for an overnight service to Chicago, arriving at 5:15 AM.

Return flights leave Chicago as MS948 at 10:30 AM on the same day, for an overnight service back to Cairo with an arrival time of 5:40 AM (+1 Day).

EgyptAir received its first A350-900 in February, and today, as per ch-aviation, flies a total of three of the type as part of a wider order of 16.