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220 stranded Chinese travellers leave Cairo aboard Hainan Airlines plane

220 stranded Chinese travellers leave Cairo aboard Hainan Airlines plane

Write: Giulia [2011-05-20]

A Hainan Airlines plane with 220 stranded Chinese travellers aboard took off from Cairo, the Egyptian capital, at 8:23 a.m. Tuesday (Feb 1).

The plane will arrive in Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong Province, at 6:50 p.m. Tuesday, Hainan Airlines announced in its microblog.

The plane was the second one sent Monday noon to Cairo to bring stranded Chinese travelers home, after the first one sent by Air China Monday noon.

Air China then sent another two planes to Cairo. They took off at 2:30 a.m. and 3:00 a.m. Tuesday from Beijing.

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Hainan Airlines to send another plane to get stranded Chinese travellers in Egypt

Hainan Airlines will send another plane to bring back Chinese travellers stranded in Cairo, Egypt, Hainan Airlines announced on its microblog Tuesday.

The plane will take off at 2:00 p.m. Tuesday and arrive at Cairo at about 1:00 a.m. Wednesday Beijing time.

The first Hainan Airlines plane with 220 stranded Chinese travellers aboard left Cairo for China at 8:23 a.m. Tuesday. It will arrive in Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong Province, at 6:50 p.m. Tuesday, Hainan Airlines said.