The first of two flights chartered by the British government is due to leave the Egyptian capital today, after escalating violence in the city.
A second flight is due to leave on Saturday, and the government has said it will provide further flights “as necessary”.
The Foreign Office is offering £300 seats on the plane, which has enough capacity for 180 people, to British nationals wishing to leave Egypt.
The official government advice remains that the situation in Cairo is unpredictable, with all British nationals advised to leave the city unless they have a pressing reason to stay.
British holidaymakers in Sharm El Sheikh are not being told to leave, however.
The Australian government also took the decision to charter planes to evacuate its citizens from Cairo, with the first leaving the Egyptian capital yesterday.
According to the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, more than 600 Australian nationals registered for evacuation assistance.
A second plane will leave today, taking passengers to Frankfurt.
Travel management company Carlson Wagonlit’s Trevor Greenaway told ABTN it has been helping business travellers to shorten or cancel trips to Cairo.
Greenaway, director of CWT’s Emergency Service Centre, said: “As the situation escalated over the weekend, CWT’s role grew to help evacuate expat workers and their families from Egypt on behalf of some of our clients.
“CWT has assisted clients with chartering planes to relocate those affected to other areas in Europe and then coordinated hotels for those displaced or arranged for them to be transferred on to their home countries.“