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More Sharm el-Sheikh flights due to land at Birmingham

More flights are due to land at Birmingham, carrying passengers from Sharm el-Sheikh.

Nearly 2,000 tourists aboard nine flights returned to airports across the country on Saturday, along with around 1,500 on Friday.

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Two planes due in Birmingham from Egypt delayed

Two planes set to return from Sharm El Sheikh and landing at Birmingham Airport tonight are both delayed.

The flights come after holidaymakers waiting to return to the UK from the Eqyptian resort endured chaos today Credit: BRUNO FAHY/Belga/Press Association Images

A Monarch flight with around 200 people on board was due to arrive at Birmingham Airport at 8.35pm but is now estimated to land at 9.26pm. A Thomas Cook flight was due to land at 9.45pm but is now set to touch down at 10.40pm.

The flights come after holidaymakers waiting to return to the UK from the Eqyptian resort endured chaos today as conflicting information was given about whether or not their flights would take off.

Egyptian authorities announced that just eight flights will depart from Sharm el-Sheikh for the UK, rather than the 29 initially expected as frustrated passengers waited for information.

The UK Government suspended air links on Wednesday after an Airbus 321 operated by Russian airline Metrojet crashed last Saturday, killing all 224 people on board. Militants of the Islamic State terror group in the Sinai Peninsula have claimed that they downed the plane.

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