Monarch Airlines Extends Ban on Flights to Sharm El-Sheikh Until Nov. 25

The United Kingdom's Monarch Airlines took the decision to extend the cancellation of all outbound flights to Sharm El Sheikh up to and including Wednesday 25th November 2015, according to the company's statement.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) — The United Kingdom's Monarch Airlines has extended its suspension of flights to the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh until November 25, the company said in a statement Monday.

Last week, the carrier cancelled all of its flights to the resort until November 12 amid concerns that the Russian A321 passenger plane, which crashed while en route from Sharm el-Sheikh to St. Petersburg, may have been brought down by a bomb.

"Monarch has taken the decision to extend the cancellation of all outbound flights to Sharm El Sheikh up to and including Wednesday 25th November 2015," the statement reads.

The decision came after the UK Foreign Office advised UK citizens to refrain from all but essential air travel to Sharm el-Sheikh.

The Airbus A321 crashed in the Sinai Peninsula on October 31, killing all 224 people on board. The catastrophe has become the largest civil aviation disaster in Russian and Soviet history.