Italy's main air travel company, Alitalia, canceled two flights to Egypt on Monday but did not give a reason for the move.
The company's agent at Cairo International Airport submitted a letter informing authorities that flight number 894, previously scheduled to arrive from Rome at 4:15 am on Monday, and flight number 895 were canceled.
On Sunday state-run newspaper Al-Ahram reported a drop in the number of incoming flights due to the violence that has broken out in several Egyptian cities since Saturday morning.
The paper quoted airport sources as saying that on Sunday all flights were less full than normal.
Clashes in Cairo’s Tahrir Square and nearby streets in downtown Cairo have continued since Saturday, when police violently dispersed a sit-in by protesters, mainly people injured in the uprising that toppled former President Hosni Mubarak in February.
Translated from the Arabic Edition
