Egypt raises an international bid for developing three airports

The Egyptian government decided to raise an international bid for developing three airports which are Sharm El-Sheik, Hurghada and Abu Simbel at the beginning of the second half of the current year. Egyptian transportation minister Ibrahim El-Domairi told ArabicNews.com that "this bid comes in the frame work of developing the air, land and sea ways that is supervised by the Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak which aims at containing the increasing demand on the air transportation and internal tourism of the three areas to raise these airports' level to serve the tourism development plans."