Originally Posted by
chaps1954
Saudi have good connections with BAe and that creates quite a bit of high value traffic.
This - at Manchester each flight is full of military hardware in the belly and Bae Systems personnel up front with the rear seats sold via numerous regional ethnic travel agents and consolidators with a few with onward connections to Pakistan and Bangladesh ( however small numbers to be quite honest)
Similar arrangements will apply from Birmingham to Jeddah
True Saudi have stated plans to massively increase general tourism in the coming years; we will see how that goes , beyond the current experiments at Neom Bay I suppose