Gaybutton wrote: ↑Thu Oct 03, 2019 8:15 am While that's very nice of Saudi Arabia, I'm going to pass . . .
There are reasons why Europeans fly right past the middle east on their way to holidays in the far east. For me this doesn't change this situation.
Furthermore, unless some massive price disparity emerges, I'm going to continue to fly direct and not even contemplate flying via the middle Eastern airlines either.
One thing I'm fairly sure about: None of the Arabs in Sunee fly from the middle East to London and then on to Bangkok. So I won't be sharing a plane with them. If I fly via the middle east, the odds must deteriorate. Also, the odds of having one of Osama Bin Laden's former colleagues in the cockpit probably increase.