Pursuits
Airlines Plan Egypt Evacuations as Jet Crash Blamed on Bomb
- EasyJet says 4,500 passengers stranded by flight ban
- Britain says it's acting on `sensitive intelligence'
Bomb-Plot Suspicion Over Egypt Crash
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Travel companies led by EasyJet Plc and Thomas Cook Group Plc are preparing to evacuate about 10,000 tourists stranded in Egypt after the U.K. banned commercial flights to Sinai, citing concern that a bomb caused the crash of a Russian plane there last weekend.
EasyJet, which said Thursday it has 4,500 passengers in Egypt, will model the plan on its extraction of clients from Tunisia after a shooting in July left 30 Britons dead, with empty jets flying from the U.K. for rescue operations.