EESDL - Your Haj story was reported in the newspapers back home, it wouldn't have been a very good
PR job if it hadn't been! I take it that you witnessed a few last will & testaments that night. PS. What is Arabic for 'Oi you! Stop crapping in the urinal!'
Pilgrim - I have read and re-read your post and I am none the wiser.
You are staging through Akrotiri on the way home with a DAC load and some passengers. Strong headwinds will mean a fuel stop in Italy or France on the way home. It is Bank Holiday weekend and you cannot get diplomatic clearance to arrange that flag stop.
a) Send your PAX to the block/messes and have a couple of days in a hotel down Limmassol, waiting for dip clearance (or the winds to change)
b) Offload the PAX and their bags so that you can make it home in a 'one-er'
c) Get airborne and then feign and emergency and divert to Nice for fuel.
d) er....perhaps you could help us out here Duplo