Russian Union of Travel Industry reports thirteen airlines to be involved in returning Russian tourists from Egypt

Relatives wait at Pulkovo international airport outside St. Petersburg after a Russian plane with 224 people on board crashed in a mountainous part of Egypt's Sinai Peninsula on October 31, 2015.

Thirteen airlines are involved in Russian travel operators' package tours to Egypt, and these airlines will be engaged in returning tourists currently staying in this country back to Russia, Irina Tyurina, a spokesperson for the Russian Union of Travel Industry (RUTI), told Interfax on Saturday.