Cairo International Airport
On October, 2003, a presidential decree stated that the Heliopolis Company for Housing and Development would receive a 1,695-acre (6.86 km2) piece of land in New Cairo, as a compensation for the land that was taken to build the Cairo International Airport.
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Famous quotes containing the words cairo and/or airport:
“St Louis, that city of outward-bound caravans for the West, and which is to the prairies, what Cairo is to the Desert.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“Airplanes are invariably scheduled to depart at such times as 7:54, 9:21 or 11:37. This extreme specificity has the effect on the novice of instilling in him the twin beliefs that he will be arriving at 10:08, 1:43 or 4:22, and that he should get to the airport on time. These beliefs are not only erroneous but actually unhealthy.”
—Fran Lebowitz (b. 1950)