Not Ready for Civilization, Exhibit Q
Charles Johnson
Fri Jul 27, 2007 at 1:48 pm PDT • Views: 324
When a member of Qatar’s ruling family discovered that three of his female relatives had been seated in business class next to men they did not know (the horror!), the sheikh went ballistic and held up the British Airways flight for nearly three hours before being ordered off the plane.
When none of the other business class passengers agreed to swap seats, the sheikh, a member of Qatar’s ruling family, went to the pilot, who had already started the engine, to complain, an airport official said.
But the pilot ordered him and his traveling companions, the three women, two men, a cook and a servant, off the plane.
The London-bound flight took off nearly three hours behind schedule Thursday evening and around 50 of the 115 passengers missed connecting flights.
(Hat tip: akak.)
Frank says: