Egypt Protests: Thousands Of Tourists Swarm Cairo Airport (VIDEO)

Thousands of foreign tourists are waiting for flights out of Cairo as the Egyptian protests continue to rage. Delta, the only airline with direct flights to Cairo from the United States, indefinitely suspended flights, according to the New York Post.

The scene at the Cairo airport was a maze of tourists from all over the world waiting to get out of the protest-torn country.

For more comprehensive coverage of the protests in Egypt, click over to Huffington Post's live blog here.

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Comments

[tomjones]

11:00 PM on 01/30/2011

Every non-essential U.S. personnel should leave at once. The place is not safe. digitalundivide.com/get-free-online-airlines-travel-quotes-airfares-guides-and-deals-and-book-plane-tickets-and-hotel-rooms

[KIVPossum]

07:15 PM on 01/30/2011

Why run to the airport if there aren't any flights? Geez, find a comfy room and sit back until the flights resume.

[KIVPossum]

07:04 PM on 01/30/2011

Why stampeed the airport and sleep on the floor for days? Go back to the hotel, bring in plenty of food and drink, sit at the window and watch what's going on

[vkmo]

06:12 PM on 01/30/2011

Another mideast country in an uproar joining Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Lebanon etc. Actually, when you look at Saddam, Hosni Mubarak, Saudi Arabian monarchy, Khaddafi and other middle eastern countries - stability comes (unfortunately) only when a dictator's warship is ruling the country. Democracy hasn't worked in the mideast (Pakistan included).

[Catherine Lynch Monks]

05:44 PM on 01/30/2011

The airlines are telling people to check their websites? C0rrect me if I'm wrong but isn't there no available internet there at this time?

[democles]

06:19 PM on 01/30/2011

That's airline logic. Too funny.

[whyus]

02:32 PM on 01/30/2011

Our neighbors spent a week there during Christmas on a work/ holiday trip. Came back the beginning of the year. They are very, very lucky.

[soundping]

01:33 PM on 01/30/2011

Don't touch my junk.

[MsNancyMitford]

01:31 PM on 01/30/2011

The train would have been more prudent.

[swiss6]

03:36 PM on 01/30/2011

I assume you’re joking, but on the chance you’re serious, where would you take a train to? About the only option would be Alexandria and there’s unrest there as well (I think your odds of getting a flight out of Cairo are still better than getting a flight or ship out of Alex)

[MsNancyMitford]

04:53 PM on 01/30/2011

I've recently spent quite a bit of time in Egypt. Months actually, from Alexandria to the Sudan.
The train would have been far better. Then any boat could be rented for few $ US. I would be safely in a Hilton over the border. I would never sit in an airport for weeks during a revolution.

Wearing a head scarf and local clothing required, of course.

[notmzbehavin]

02:26 AM on 01/31/2011

I wouldn't go to Alexandria either. I landed at Borg El Arab, and I believe it's a military base and probably impossible to fly out of. When I was there (about 4 years ago or so) there were no amenities, nothing but a warehouse type building (at least that's where I was taken to). I'd not want to be caught there for any length of time.

I don't believe that Alexandria would be any safer than Cairo. But I also wouldn't want to get stuck at Cairo either--I'd feel like a sitting duck. There aren't a lot of other ways out of the country other than west, and I don't know that there would be train travel in that direction.

Cairo is still probably the best bet unless one knows someone willing to take the risk as you mention and hire someone to ferry you to another country. Unless someone with you speaks Arabic, though, I don't know if they could make even that happen.

I could be wrong, but I kind of doubt that the trains are running as usual anyway.

[harobamason]

12:59 PM on 01/30/2011

But there is hardly any internet and people can't print flight confirmations

[pipetoe]

12:46 PM on 01/30/2011

Our school had a group of high school students over there...Thank god they are home...Out just in the nic of time.

[SoutheastBeast]

12:20 PM on 01/30/2011

My wife was doing research in Egypt for three weeks. She flew out on January 24, the day before these demonstrations began. While I am on the side of the demonstrators, I thank God that my wife made it out of there before this chaos ensued.

[Kellybelle22]

05:03 PM on 01/30/2011

Very glad to hear she's home safely. I know you're relieved. We'd discussed a trip to Cairo next year, and I hope things'll be settled down by then. It would be the stuff of nightmares to be stuck in an Islamic country amidst a revolution, even one I'm in sympathy with.

[icstars]

07:31 PM on 01/30/2011

Wouldn't it be a nightmare to be stuck in ANY country amidst a revolution?

[KIVPossum]

07:03 PM on 01/30/2011

Glad she got out safely