EgyptAir: (MS) are the flag carrier airline of the Arab Republic of Egypt and a member of Star Alliance. The airline is based at Cairo International Airport, its main hub, operating scheduled passenger and freight services to more than 70 destinations in the Middle East, Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas. An extensive network of domestic services is focused on Cairo, Egypt's capital.

EgyptAir is Africa's largest airline, and joined the Star Alliance on 11 July 2008. Its has its headquarters in the EgyptAir Administerial Complex in Cairo The airline's logo is Horus, the sky deity in ancient Egyptian mythology, usually depicted as a falcon or a man with the head of a falcon. The airline has taken Horus as its logo because of it ancient symbolism as a "winged god of the sun".

EgyptAir is a state-owned company with special legislation permitting the management to operate as if the company were privately owned without any interference from the government. The company is self-financing without any financial backing by the Egyptian government. In 2004, EgyptAir became the first IOSA certified airline in Africa. In 2006, Skytrax, the UK-based airline consultancy service, rated EgyptAir as a "3 Star Quality Certified Airline".

Egypt Air has planned to increase its India operations with the addition of a new flight to Mumbai from October 28 With this, Egypt Air will operate four weekly services between India and Egypt, a press release issued here stated today. The airline's India & Sri Lanka's Regional Manager Ahmed Wasfy said that "the introduction of this new service is a sign of our confidence in the tremendous potential of India as an emerging source market.
"The flight enhancement from Mumbai for the current winter schedule is planned keeping in perspective the increasing passenger traffic movement from Mumbai to Cairo and also for stopover passengers on their onward connection to major cities in Europe, London Heathrow, the US, Middle-East and Africa".

The enhanced service MS 969 will operate every Wednesday between Mumbai and Cairo while the return flight from Cairo will operate every Tuesday. The airline will be operating Airbus 330 on this sector with a seat capacity of 268 out of which business class will constitute 24 seats and economy class 244 seats, the release said. Egypt Air will now fly every Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from Mumbai offering an overall total seat capacity of 1,072, which will include a total of 96 business seats and 976 economy seats per week.

In 2007, EgyptAir's passenger traffic increased by 21% to 7.8 million passengers.

The airline launched a regional subsidiary called EgyptAir Express with a fleet of new Embraer E-170 jets. The carrier links Cairo with Sharm El-Sheikh, Hurghada, Luxor, Aswan, Marsa Alam, Abu Simbel and Alexandria (Egypt) in addition to secondary regional destinations to complement the parent company's pattern of service. In June 2009 the subsidiary received the last of the 12 Embraer E-170 aircraft on order.

The EgyptAir Holding Company has recorded substantial profits in past years, reaching US$170 million during the 2007/2008 financial year. This is fortified by huge assets of more than US$3.8 billion. The airline's financial year is from July to June. For the fiscal year ending 31 July 2007, EgyptAir achieved record total revenue of US$1,143 billion. Total group revenue grew by 14%, as compared with the previous year.

In early 2007, the airline partnered with the Egyptian Ministry of Civil Aviation and 'Egyptian Holding Company for Airports & Air Navigation' to form a new corporate airline, Smart Aviation Company, based at Cairo Airport.
On October 16, 2007 the Chief Executive Board of Star Alliance voted to accept EgyptAir as a future member. The airline had already forged commercial and cooperative agreements with several members of the Star Alliance by then, including Lufthansa, Singapore Airlines, Austrian Airlines, Thai Airways International, Swiss International Airlines,  South African Airways, Turkish Airlines and bmi. Nine months after being invited as a future member (a record time by any airline joining an alliance), EgyptAir became the 21st member of Star Alliance in a ceremony held in Cairo on 11 July 2008.

In 2008, EgyptAir's passenger traffic increased by 6% to 8.2 million passengers.

In 2009, EgyptAir's operations at its Cairo hub were notably overhauled due to the inauguration of the new Terminal 3 in April 2009. The airline transferred all its operations (international and domestic) to the new terminal that has more than doubled the airport's capacity. Under the Star Alliance “Move Under One Roof” concept at Cairo Airport, all Star Alliance member carriers serving Cairo, have moved to the new Terminal 3. During the 2009 Paris Airshow, the airline announced a new venture with US lessor Aviation Capital Group (ACG) and other Egyptian private and public shareholders to establish a leasing joint venture focusing on the Middle East and Northern Africa region. The new joint venture - named Civil Aviation Finance and Operating Leases (CIAF-Leasing) will initially focus on narrow body aircraft.

The carrier is a founding member of Arabesk Airline Alliance and the Arab Air Carriers Organization.