While the Egyptian uprising has already claimed at least 125 dead in six days, many countries and companies continued, Monday, January 31, repatriate or reduce the number of their nationals. Greece has decided to send military planes and Portugal announced it would send a plane for those who "wish" can return.
London has recommended the British to leave Cairo, Alexandria and Suez, while holding that the situation had "not reached a stage where we would look to charter planes and evacuate large numbers of people." Moscow has recommended that about 70 000 Russians, 30 of 000 expatriates, present on site to stay at home or in the hotel zones.
Friday, there were also 4,000 French tourists in the country. "Half are returned during the weekend and the rest should be between now and the end of the week," said Rene-Marc Chikli, president of the Association of French tour operators (CETO). Club Mediterranee, which proposed "a precautionary measure to its customers to anticipate their return," and on Monday a special flight chartered from Taba, Red Sea, and took seats on other flights scheduled for Hurghada Luxor.
Air France will, in turn, increase its capacity between Paris and Egypt from Tuesday to facilitate the repatriation of its customers. Several companies, including Lafarge, the building materials group Saint-Gobain, the bank Credit Agricole, France Telecom, the Russian oil company Lukoil, gas producer Novatek, the Polish gas PGNiG, or the German energy group RWE, had previously decided to evacuate families of their expatriate staff and some or all of their employees. 
London has recommended the British to leave Cairo, Alexandria and Suez, while holding that the situation had "not reached a stage where we would look to charter planes and evacuate large numbers of people." Moscow has recommended that about 70 000 Russians, 30 of 000 expatriates, present on site to stay at home or in the hotel zones.
Friday, there were also 4,000 French tourists in the country. "Half are returned during the weekend and the rest should be between now and the end of the week," said Rene-Marc Chikli, president of the Association of French tour operators (CETO). Club Mediterranee, which proposed "a precautionary measure to its customers to anticipate their return," and on Monday a special flight chartered from Taba, Red Sea, and took seats on other flights scheduled for Hurghada Luxor.
Air France will, in turn, increase its capacity between Paris and Egypt from Tuesday to facilitate the repatriation of its customers. Several companies, including Lafarge, the building materials group Saint-Gobain, the bank Credit Agricole, France Telecom, the Russian oil company Lukoil, gas producer Novatek, the Polish gas PGNiG, or the German energy group RWE, had previously decided to evacuate families of their expatriate staff and some or all of their employees.
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