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Egypt, UAE Resume First Qatar Flights since 2017

A mask-clad traveller checks in at Doha airport as Qatar and Egypt resumed direct flights for the first time since 2017. (AFP)
A mask-clad traveller checks in at Doha airport as Qatar and Egypt resumed direct flights for the first time since 2017. (AFP)
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Egypt, UAE Resume First Qatar Flights since 2017

A mask-clad traveller checks in at Doha airport as Qatar and Egypt resumed direct flights for the first time since 2017. (AFP)
A mask-clad traveller checks in at Doha airport as Qatar and Egypt resumed direct flights for the first time since 2017. (AFP)

The first direct flights since 2017 between Qatar and its former rivals Egypt and the UAE took to the skies on Monday, following the end of a regional crisis.

Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain and Egypt cut diplomatic and economic ties with Qatar over its support for terrorism.

The quartet agreed to heal the rift at a Gulf summit on January 5 in Saudi Arabia’s AlUla.

The first commercial flight from Qatar to Egypt in three and a half years, an EgyptAir service to Cairo, took off from windswept Doha airport.

It was followed shortly after by the arrival of an Air Arabia flight from Sharjah in the UAE.

A Qatar Airways plane was due to also make the trip to Cairo later Monday.

Flights between Doha and Saudi Arabia, which has also opened its land border to Qatar, resumed on January 11.

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Saudi Royal Order Names Al-Harbi as Head of Military Apparatus, Khalid bin Bandar as Advisor at Foreign Ministry

Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz. (SPA)
Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz. (SPA)
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Saudi Royal Order Names Al-Harbi as Head of Military Apparatus, Khalid bin Bandar as Advisor at Foreign Ministry

Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz. (SPA)
Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz. (SPA)

Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz issued on Thursday a Royal Order to promote Major General Saleh bin Abdulrahman bin Samir Al-Harbi to the rank of Lieutenant General and appoint him as Head of the Military Apparatus.

A second Royal Order appointed Prince Khalid bin Bandar bin Sultan bin Abdulaziz as an advisor at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Born in 1977, Prince Khalid worked as the Saudi Ambassador to the UK and Germany.

He attended Oxford University and Pembroke College, where he earned a degree in Oriental Studies. He also attended Sandhurst Military Academy and studied at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.

He worked at the United Nations in New York and for three years as an advisor to the Saudi Ambassador in Washington.

Al-Harbi was a member of several security and military committees. A decorated officer, he was head of operations at the National Guard Ministry.

National Guard Minister Prince Abdullah bin Bandar bin Abdulaziz awarded him the Knight Medal of the International Civil Defense Organization (ICDO).

The medal is awarded by the ICDO in recognition of exceptional service to the organization and outstanding contributions to advancing civil defense efforts around the world.