EGYPT AIR FLIGHTS leaving Cairo have been canceled for the next 12 hours

[oberliner]

1:45 PM EST (8:45 PM Cairo). EGYPT AIR FLIGHTS leaving Cairo have been canceled for the next 12 hours, Al Jazeera is reporting. Don't know what to make of this yet, but it's sure to lead to frenzied speculation (given a full airport shut down in Tunis preceded the departure of Ben Ali). But so far, the reporting is just Egypt Air, not the many other carriers that fly in and out of Cairo.

1:35 PM EST (8:35 PM Cairo) It think it's now 81 hours into Egypt's crisis and still no word from Hosni Mubarak. It's about 4 hours since NDP officials started putting it around in Cairo that the president would address the Egyptian people "soon." What's going on? Who knows? It's hard to see Mubarak finding any words at this point that would mollify the public. He's certainly well-aware that the lame (and disbelieved) promises of reform made by Tunisia's Ben Ali shortly before his Waterloo didn't too him any good. At this point, Mubarak's long career as Egyptian leader is over -- probably next September, when the rigged presidential elections are scheduled. I'm sure folks are getting together in back rooms now to sort our who will replace him.

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Backchannels/2011/0128/Live-blogging-the-Egyptian-uprising

[PaddyBlueEyes]

1. He's gone

within the next 24-48. My money is on ElBaradei.

[rabs]

3. I am leaning more to armed forces

taking over until elections can be held.

The MB is too radical to too many, esp. the secular and Christian Egyptians.

But ElBaradei would be acceptable.

[ProdigalJunkMail]

2. Speaking with friends of friends

no air travel in or out from Cairo...not just Egypt Air.

sP