News and notes from around the interweb:
- DC travel meetup August 22
- 500 Lufthansa Miles & More miles for downloading and logging into their app for the first time (HT: @IadisGr8)
- Saudi Arabia plans to create a visa free resort destination “along its northwestern Red Sea coast” where women can drive and don’t have to wear veils.
- Qantas and American are still working towards approvals for a joint venture.
“If you want any café or restaurant recommendations around DoJ or DoT headquarters, I can tell you, given the amount of time we’re spending there at the moment,” Qantas Group Executive Government, Industry & International Affairs Andrew Parker quipped at the CAPA Australia Pacific Summit in Sydney.
- Smoke on SriLankan flight likely caused by lithium-ion battery (HT: Paul H.) Thank goodness the electronic devices were in the cabin and not in checked luggage.
- The federal government may buy two Boeing 747-8 air frames that have been in storage in the desert and in Everett and use them as eventual replacement Air Force One aircraft. The frames had been intended for defunct Russian carrier Transaero.
Boeing is building a brand new 747 Air Force One for future presidents, but costs are out of control, more than $4 billion. Cancel order!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 6, 2016
- Sabre shedding 9% of its workforce
- With American’s first Boeing 737 MAX off the assembly line offering the tightest seat pitch ever from a US legacy airline, it’s worth highlighting another new aircraft American once took delivery of.
Saudi Arabia plans to create a visa free resort destination “along its northwestern Red Sea coast” where women can drive and don’t have to wear veils.
It will be like Disneyland’s TomorrowLand, except it will be called “20th Century Land”.
Gary,
I clicked the link to khaleejtimes.com. apparently the article didn’t said anything about “Zone Where Women Can Drive, Don’t Have to Wear Veils” but clearly stating “the Kingdom may ease certain rules in the tourist haven.”
Please kindly adjust the title accordingly. You wrote a good blog. I hate to see that spammers and haters getting the upperhand and accusing you of clickbait.
Would love to see some Saudi women in bikinis.
Only because they make it such big deal.
@Credit
Just marry one. Not only bikini, you can see her naked. And it would not be uncommon for Saudi to have second, third and forth wives. You can take as much do you? Not just talk or type?
“Saudi Arabia Creating Resort Zone Where Women Can Drive, Don’t Have to Wear Veils”
a.k.a. the UAE