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Travel
No new airport for now
Plans to build a new airport in Cairo have been scrapped, with the anticipated increase in flight arrivals and departures to be handled by extensions to the current Cairo International airport, most of the papers reported recently. The two options -- a new airport or extensions to the existing one -- were presented to President Hosni Mubarak, who chose the latter because, according to Information Minister Safwat El-Sherif, it was the best and most efficient.



New developments
How to make a car
Al-Ahram recently provided its readers with a run-down on both the total number of cars on Egypt's roads, as well as details on how many of those vehicles were actually assembled in Egypt. Over the past 20 years (during the presidency of Hosni Mubarak), the number of factories assembling cars went up from 2 to 17. They are producing 45,000 vehicles a year. Amongst the makes being put together are marquee brands like Mercedes and BMW, as well as more affordable models like Hyundai. The paper says some LE7 billion has been invested in the industry, which employs approximately 20,000 workers. As for the total number of vehicles in the country, the latest figures indicate over 2 million passenger cars and some 650,000 lorries.



Travel
Bad times ahead
The September 11 attacks on the US have seriously affected Egypt's tourism, reports Al-Wafd today on its front page. Up to 80 per cent of reservations from abroad have been cancelled, and it has been estimated that the financial losses from September until the end of the year will reach over a billion dollars. Thousands of local employees working in the tourism field have also been laid off, the paper reports.



Sport
New contracts for the twins
Soccer twins Hossam and Ibrahim Hassan have agreed in principle to renew their contracts with Zamalek, laying to rest all rumors of their return to Ahli, Al-Wafd reports. Meanwhile, Al-Akhbar reports that Ismaili tops the national league this week, and that Ahli have reached the semi-finals in the African Champions League after beating Algeria's Bolizdad 1-0.



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