UK Egypt Tourists
AP-APTN-0930: UK Egypt Tourists
Monday, 31 January 2011
STORY:UK Egypt Tourists- REPLAY Tourists returning from Egypt comment on unrest
LENGTH: 01:48
FIRST RUN: 0030
RESTRICTIONS: Part UK/RTE/CNNi/Al Jazeera English
TYPE: English/Nat
SOURCE: AP TELEVISION/SKY
STORY NUMBER: 673893
DATELINE: Cairo/London - 30 Jan 2011
LENGTH: 01:48
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SKY - NO ACCESS UK/RTE/CNNI/AL JAZEERA ENGLISH
SHOTLIST:
(FIRST RUN 1430 ME EUROPE PRIME NEWS - 30 JANUARY 2011)
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Cairo - 30 January 2011
1. Wide of Cairo international airport
2. Egypt Air planes on tarmac
3. Various of passengers arriving at the departure terminal's entrance
4. Various of passengers waiting, sitting on trolleys outside terminal entrance
(FIRST RUN 0030 NEWS UPDATE - 31 JANUARY 2011)
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London - 30 January 2011
5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Vox pop, no name given, passenger returning from Egypt:
"You just didn't know what was gonna happen next, especially last... Yesterday, the police kind of ran away, it was left to the mobs, everybody was in a desperate situation."
6. SOUNDBITE: (English) Vox pop, no name given, passenger returning from Egypt:
"We could hear it from our apartment, just in the next street, we could hear the gas grenades going off, some shots. That was the night before last, a bit frightening, it went almost a night. And then today we came out, we had to come out the airport, turn around, go back and pick up some VIP's."
7. SOUNDBITE: (English) Vox pop, no name given, passenger returning from Egypt:
"People are not saying anything. People are waiting to see what is going to happen. People of my class, I mean."
8. SOUNDBITE: (English) Vox pop, no name given, passenger returning from Egypt:
"We're oil industry, work for the oil industry, our husbands do, so our husbands are behind, and they've evacuated out the families and the children today."
9. SOUNDBITE: (English) Vox pop, no name given, passenger returning from Egypt:
"I've actually only had two days of my holiday because the place is complete pandemonium and it's not safe to be there at all and we've been very very lucky to get out cause it's complete chaos in the airport as well. I don't think enough people have realised the danger that they're in if they stay there. But we made the decision yesterday morning to spend two days in the airport and we decided we're coming home. Never mind the pyramids, let's get home."
(FIRST RUN 1430 ME EUROPE PRIME NEWS - 30 JANUARY 2011)
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Cairo - 30 January 2011
10. Passengers waiting, sitting on trolleys outside terminal entrance
STORYLINE
Passengers arriving in London from Cairo on Sunday described the situation in the Egypt as "desperate" and in "complete chaos."
"We could hear it from our apartment, just in the next street, we could hear the gas grenades going off," said one returning tourist.
"The place is complete pandemonium and it's not safe to be there at all and we've been very very lucky to get out," said another man arriving at Heathrow airport.
Many passengers, however, remained stranded at Cairo International Airport as protests against President Hosni Mubarak's regime continued on Sunday.
Foreign governments stepped up their warnings about travel to Egypt, with several urging their citizens to evacuate as soon as possible amid uncertainty over where the Arab nation is headed after nearly a week of mass protests.
The fears of foreign tourists mirrored those of many Egyptians.
Dozens with the means to do so rented jets or hopped aboard their own planes in a mad dash that did little to boost confidence in the future of a country long viewed as a pillar of stability in a restive region.
Those leaving included businessmen and celebrities.
The United States, Canada, Switzerland, Turkey and the Netherlands issued advisories encouraging nationals already in Egypt to leave and telling those who planned trips there to reconsider.
The US Embassy in Cairo said it was making arrangements to transport Americans who want to leave to "safe haven locations in Europe."
Flights would begin on Monday.
Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon said its charter flights will begin as early as Monday to fly Canadians who wish to leave to locations in Europe.
A growing number of countries - including China, Australia, France, Germany, Belgium, Sweden, Finland, Russia and Poland - warned against travel to most, if not all, of Egypt.
Arab nations, including Iraq, either sent in jets or offered to do so.
Even before the images of lawlessness, tourists were thronging to Cairo's airport as Mubarak faced the gravest challenge in his 30-year rule.
Many came without reservations, only to find a growing number of flights cancelled, delayed or suspended.
National carrier EgyptAir cancelled or delayed 25 flights on Sunday because of crew shortages.
The airport took on the appearance of a marble-floored refugee camp.
Airport officials said some travellers who had been there for several days came down with diarrhoea, and were treated by doctors.
The unrest is sure to affect Egypt's vital tourism sector, at least in the short-run.
Tourism accounts for about 5 to 6 percent of GDP, making it one of the top four sources of foreign revenue.
But the unrest also threatens to unravel an economy that officials had proudly pointed to one of the few to withstand the global financial meltdown.
International oil companies and other Western firms began to weigh evacuating their employees' families - a move that may be mirrored by international schools catering to those workers.
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