EGYPTAIR, the country's flagship carrier and one of Africa's largest airlines, will begin flying twice a week to south Sudan next month. The state-owned airline's flights to the southern capital Juba will start on August 6, the company said on Tuesday, in addition to its 26 flights a week to Khartoum. "Expanding in Africa is in line with a strategy to offer more services and investments in this continent, one of the fastest growing markets in the world," Hussein Massoud, the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the EgyptAir holding company, said in an email statement. EgyptAir, a member of the Star Alliance network, has also recently started flights to Dar es Salaam in Tanzania and Abuja in Nigeria. "We have ambitious expansion plans and we will continue to seek new destinations in Africa and increase the frequency of flights," said Alaa Ashour, the Chairman of the airline. [email protected]