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EgyptAir will operate four direct flights per week, from Cairo to Tel Aviv next October for the first time since 1979.

These direct flights have been scheduled to take off from Cairo International Airport and land at Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion International Airport on 3, 4, 5, and 7 October.

The ticket prices ranging from EGP 4,500 (around $285.7) to EGP 4,900 ($311) for one-way flights, which take about 1 hour and 20 minutes.

It was stated that EgyptAir’s schedule confirms earlier Israeli news reports about the flights between Egypt and Israel but no official confirmation was announced by the Egyptian Civil Aviation Ministry.

The Jerusalem-based online newspaper The Times of Israel reported on Sunday that as soon as flights are re-launched by EgyptAir, they will be operated by the airline’s fully marked aircraft.

In 1980, the only flights between Israel and Cairo had been operated by Air Sinai, an affiliated company of EgyptAir, which operated flights in unmarked planes without the official flag.

The schedule of direct flights between Cairo and Tel Aviv comes after Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi’s meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett in the Red Sea resort town of Sharm El-Sheikh last Monday.

That was the first visit by Bennett to Egypt as prime minister, as well as the first visit by an Israeli prime minister in general to Egypt, since 2011.

The two leaders discussed the recent developments concerning the peace issue in the Middle East.

According to the Israeli PM office’s statement on the meeting, Bennett stated that the Egyptian role “is important in the region” and that after four decades, the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty has been the cornerstone of security and stability in the region.