The Star Alliance is an organisation of airlines that operate around the world, working together in a mutually beneficial way. One of the airlines that is part of the Alliance is Egypt Air. The airline is the flag carrier of Egypt, a position which entitles the company to privileges that other companies do not have access to. This is because the company is deemed important enough that it is exempt from standard governmental restrictions to allow the company to operate functionally during times of economical hardship.

Egypt Air is headquartered in Cairo International Airport, which is where its main hub is located. The airline offers flights to wide selection of destinations throughout Egypt’s capital city of Cairo. In addition, the company also operates flights to over seventy-five destinations across the rest of the Middle East as well as Africa, Europe, Asia, South America and North America. The international flight routes used by the company are serviced by commercial flights for passenger carriage and tourism, as well as a large amount of scheduled freight services that provide the company with a large source of revenue. The airline became an official member of the Star Alliance on the 11th of July in 2008, welcomed in wholeheartedly since Egypt Air holds the prestigious record of being the largest airline in the whole of the African continent. The airline is a state owned company that enjoys a special legislation that permits the administrators to manage the business as if the airline was a privately owned company, in other words, without interference from the government. Furthermore, the airline is entirely financed by its own operations and does not rely on any pecuniary backing from the government of Egypt in any way whatsoever.

The airline has a distinctive brand image, using a figure from ancient Egyptian mythology to decorate its fleet. The logo is the sky deity known as Horus, who is conventionally depicted as a humanoid with the body of a man and falcon’s head, or sometimes just as a falcon. The company settled on the image of Horus to define its brand logo because of the deity’s long standing symbolism for being a sun god with wings; a particularly fitting allusion for an international airline company.Considering the size of the airline, it is not surprising that the company is responsible for trafficking the large amount of annual tourists that the country enjoys in recent times.