Saudi Arabia replaced the head of its civil aviation authority on Wednesday, aft...
FILE PHOTO: General view of the new terminal of Jeddah airport, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia September 19, 2018. REUTERS/Stephen Kalin/File Photo
A royal decree appointed Abdelhadi al-Mansouri president of the General Authority for Civil Aviation , which oversees airport operations across the country. His predecessor was sacked in January. Disgruntled travelers took to social media to complain. A photo of an information board at Riyadh airport showed delays on almost every domestic route, and a video showed scores of people crowded outside a state-owned Saudi Arabian Airlines ticket office.
Saudia, which seemed to have most of the delays, called them “exceptional” and attributed them to “unusual operation conditions”.
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