Muharraq, Egypt Air launched additional  flights from and to Bahrain International Airport from Egypt's capital Cairo operated by the airline's Boeing 777-300 aircraft with 346 passenger seating configuration in business and economy classes. 

It commenced on Thursday, 28th June 2012 and ended 2nd July 2012 with a total of 13 additional fights from and to both airports. The additional flights covered the transfer of mainly Egyptians residing in Bahrain for the summer vacation. 

Mohammed Yussef, Egypt Air's country manager, Bahrain said, “We would like to take this opportunity to thank all the officials at the Bahrain Civil Aviation Authority, Bahrain Airport Company, Bahrain Airport Services and Airline Local Agent Yousef Bin Ahmed Kano for their support and efforts to overcome all the obstacles and facilitate all measures to assure this number of trips in such a short period.

“Finally we would like to thank everyone working at the Ministry of Education in the Kingdom of Bahrain for their continued cooperation and support.”