BA reroute Gulf flights via Larnaca
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I have just read this thread from beginning to end and it is the first time I have seen it.
Like most threads it seems to start with a hard and serious issue and then somehow seems to degenerate into the petty, the laughable and the bigotted.
And, sometimes, as this does, also laudable distractions from the main theme.
I think BA have done quite right for their airline and their staff to do the Larnaca stopover. It must have made financial sense with insurance premiums and with hindsight from previous experiences in Gulf War I or it would not have happened.
Of course it makes no sense to the passenger who wants to get from A to B expeditiously. So, the passenger will travel by Emirates if he wants to go direct Dubai-Manchester (which is a joint BA service anyway) and get the Shuttle to London or the train to Birmingham rather than incur lengthy technical delays in Cyprus as happened last week.
Thats the main issue. "You should see the totty in City Centre in Dubai" is a secondary one that grabbed my attention as well as the hairy male being chastised for walking or running around in shorts in Saudi.
The Western men who walk around in City Centre, Dubai, in shorts (and they are about one in 200) and any Western woman who does not have the common sense to realise where on earth they are I will call "Ostriches" because there is plenty of sand there for them to put their heads into and notice nothing else.
Most of these come from the Antipodes.
Good start to a poem (they would miss out the "e")
My thoughts
Like most threads it seems to start with a hard and serious issue and then somehow seems to degenerate into the petty, the laughable and the bigotted.
And, sometimes, as this does, also laudable distractions from the main theme.
I think BA have done quite right for their airline and their staff to do the Larnaca stopover. It must have made financial sense with insurance premiums and with hindsight from previous experiences in Gulf War I or it would not have happened.
Of course it makes no sense to the passenger who wants to get from A to B expeditiously. So, the passenger will travel by Emirates if he wants to go direct Dubai-Manchester (which is a joint BA service anyway) and get the Shuttle to London or the train to Birmingham rather than incur lengthy technical delays in Cyprus as happened last week.
Thats the main issue. "You should see the totty in City Centre in Dubai" is a secondary one that grabbed my attention as well as the hairy male being chastised for walking or running around in shorts in Saudi.
The Western men who walk around in City Centre, Dubai, in shorts (and they are about one in 200) and any Western woman who does not have the common sense to realise where on earth they are I will call "Ostriches" because there is plenty of sand there for them to put their heads into and notice nothing else.
Most of these come from the Antipodes.
Good start to a poem (they would miss out the "e")
My thoughts
