Egyptair Business Class to Luxor

Egyptair to Luxor

Once again, the secret to driving in Cairo is... to travel in the middle of the night.   Not a lot of passengers at the airport either.

Since the Egyptair app is pretty much useless, neither of us could not get a digital boarding pass as the app froze every time we click "display boarding pass".  On the other hand, the old fashioned airport kiosks worked and spit out our paper BPs.

Our first security check of the morning got us to the check-in counters.

Not a lot of morning domestic departures.

Let's check out the Egyptair Business Class Lounge.

Meh.  Not very exciting, to say the least.

Carbs much?

Time to head to our gate.

OK, this makes a lot of sense.  A 2nd security check.

More security equipment at the gate, but not is use today.

Nice new plane but terrible 2-3 all Economy seating with the first three rows comically designated as Euro-fraud style Business Class. 

We lucked out with a middle seat in our third row, oddly numbered row 22.  Huh?

More carbs for "breakfast".

On the other hand, our Egyptair A220 had Wifi and it worked.  Gotta love the price and my receipt for $0.00. 

Beautiful scenery as we approach Luxor.

And such a contrast from the lush greenery around the Nile River.

Not a lot of action this morning at Luxor "International" which has no jet bridges and where all planes park far, far away on the tarmac and use buses to transport passengers to the terminal.

Kudos to Egyptair for a separate bus for Business Class passengers.

But the terminal was a mile from our plane's parking area.  Seriously?  You couldn't park any closer??

Five minutes later, we are outside in Luxor where we met Nermeen, our wonderful guide for the day.    Cute local kids.

And Luxor's pretty new-ish terminal.