Hi Everybody
It appears that Shareen's earlier message has now got validity. Just spoken to my contact and he says they now have virtually all the permissions required to restart, with a meeting currently taking place today with the Egyptian CAA to finalise everything. He's now totally confident that they will be back in the air by either this weekend coming or the beginning of next week latest. His company hasn't decided on ticket prices yet - but it will be increased on the good old days. And they will all be using the same big take-off site - but he says it is very big & he thinks it's going to be fine. They've also yet to hear how many balloons per company they'll be allowed to have in the air each day (& that will obviously have an effect on pricing as well).
He is very happy & very positive that this is finally the real thing. So all fingers crossed everywhere...
Jan, the pilot




