Evacuation of Americans from Egypt scheduled to start
Cairo, Egypt - When the threat of further unrest loomed in Egypt, the United States should begin charter flights to help the Americans to leave the country on Monday.
Other governments and companies have also said that the intention to evacuate citizens at the heart of growing protests across the country.
The Government of Canada said it will start charter flights to Europe evacuate some 6,000 of its citizens in Egypt on Monday.
Australia said Monday it plans to offer a flight from Cairo to its citizens of emergency Wednesday. Thai Airways said Monday it was preparing a special flight to Cairo to bring home stranded at the request of the Thai government in the country.
And the Mexican government has urged its citizens in Egypt to consider leaving the country.
Two special EL AL flight with Israelis returning from Egypt arrived in Israel Monday morning, said ministry spokesman Yigal Israeli Foreign Palmor.
The company has added flights after Israeli officials recommended that people will return. A trip on Saturday brought the families of Israeli diplomats.
Two planes were heading to Egypt on Sunday to start the transportation of Turkish citizens abroad, the Turkish news agency Anadolu reported semi Ajansı.
U.S. officials were considering Istanbul, Nicosia, Cyprus and Athens, Greece, evacuated Americans as possible targets, although this list is not complete on Sunday afternoon, and Assistant Secretary for Consular Affairs Janice Jacobs said on Sunday.
"There are thousands of potential evacuees from Egypt, and pay close attention to that," he said.
U.S. officials are advising travelers to stay stuck there until help arrived.
"We are now asking people to limit their movements as much as possible and wait for the additional information that we leave on charter flights," said Jacobs.
The U.S. State Department made arrangements to provide transportation "for sites asylum in Europe. From those locations, U.S. citizens should make their travel plans and pay the state for their flights in Egypt Embassy said in a statement.
According to senior officials of the State Department, officials there are 380 of the U.S. Embassy in Cairo, and joint 760 and children living with them in Egypt.