EgyptAir EgyptAir is 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.[1]
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".