New Italy route announced
Air Cairo plans a seasonal service from El Dabaa (El Alamein) to Catania using Airbus A320s, running from June 9 to September 29 — a concrete new option for summer travel between Egypt’s North Coast and Italy. (AeroRoutes lists the El Dabaa–Catania NS26 addition as part of Air Cairo’s Northern summer network buildout). (aeroroutes.com)
Air Cairo is adding a once-a-week flight from Egypt’s North Coast to Sicily this summer, and it is not from Cairo or Alexandria. The new service links El Dabaa, the airport for El Alamein on the Mediterranean coast, with Catania on the east side of Sicily. (aeroroutes.com) The schedule starts on June 9, 2026 and ends on September 29, 2026, which makes it a pure summer route rather than a year-round bet. AeroRoutes says the flight will use an Airbus A320 and operate on Tuesdays. (aeroroutes.com) The timing is built for resort traffic, not business day trips. The outbound flight is listed as leaving El Dabaa at 11:45 in the morning and arriving in Catania at 13:15, with the return leaving Sicily at 14:15 and landing back in Egypt at 17:25. (aeroroutes.com) El Dabaa is the airport code for El Alamein International Airport, which sits in Egypt’s Matrouh Governorate on the North Coast west of Alexandria. That puts the flight next to a summer beach belt that has become one of Egypt’s busiest seasonal leisure markets. (wikipedia.org) Catania is the main gateway for eastern Sicily, and the airport’s own site presents it as the island’s busiest airport. So this is not a tiny airstrip-to-airstrip experiment; it connects a seasonal Egyptian resort zone to one of southern Italy’s biggest tourist entry points. (aeroporto.catania.it) (catania-airport.com) Air Cairo is also adding another Italy route from the same Egyptian airport to Milan Malpensa in the same Northern summer 2026 season. That makes the Catania flight look less like a one-off and more like part of a deliberate Italy push from El Alamein. (aeroroutes.com) The aircraft choice fits that plan. Air Cairo’s fleet page shows Airbus A320 family jets in service, which are the standard narrow-body planes airlines use when they want enough seats for holiday traffic without moving up to a wide-body aircraft. (aircairo.com) What changed here is the map, not the airplane. Instead of funneling travelers through Cairo, Air Cairo is testing whether one weekly nonstop can pull beach travelers directly between Egypt’s northwest coast and Sicily during the exact window when both places fill up. (aeroroutes.com)
