Government Declared Holiday

It will be a long weekend next week. Goverment has declared holiday for Riyadh on the 27th and 28th of March. This is because they are having a Middle East Conference / Summit in Riyadh during that time. Looking at the traffic situation & security reasons, they declare it as holidays to "encourage" people to stay in doors. Seems like there would be a lot of security check points setup around the city. I'll be going to Dammam (a city on the west coast, 45minutes away from Bahrain) with Muiz and Fauzi for a meeting with one of the major travel agency in the country. Then we will spend our 2 days "holiday" in Bahrain (hopefully), as it all comes down to getting our re-entry visa done.

Its has almost been a month of operations now. And everything seems to be going smoothly, with the occasional hiccups along the way. This is expected i was told. And i was told SAMA (the other low cost carrier) which started their operations on the 18th of March, had to delay their first flight by almost an hour. (first impression: nas air 1 sama 0) And i was told that they faced another delayed flight due to technical issue yesterday, and they had to moved all their passenger to saudi airlines. Well, so much for smooth operation on their behalf. At least, we only had one delay so far (30 minutes, due to operational paperwork). No more such things we can hope, but we usually never get what we hope for anyways.