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How I ended up flying for Yemen's national airline – and survived

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Re: How I ended up flying for Yemen's national airline – and survived

#11

Its interesting. I live in "kashmir", India side and the place is on a similar no-go by both UK and US governments travel advisory. https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/india https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/... Us has a level 4 do not travel. The point is, we are around 10 million souls living in this place and we call it home. It may not be for Americans and British but its our home.…

Last time I was backpacking in India and wanted to go to Kashmir (2008), violence just flared up badly after long period of peace and was outright told not to head up north from Amritsar. I've read few articles how tourists in Srinagar (our goal) were all gathered by army in barracks and flown away.

Makes sense from Indian army point of view. I wouldn't expect its easy to even get there, especially if westerner, we stick out of crowd properly even when skin tone may be similar, clothing is obviously very different. There is a reason why those prices are so low. Maybe nothing happens, maybe something does. Flying is probably safest, if one ignores the possibility of ground-air or air-air missiles, intentional or not.

Re: How I ended up flying for Yemen's national airline – and survived

#16

Why you wouldn't get tf out of there on your first Cairo landing is beyond me.

. . . because it's your paycheck?

Get out while you're still not extorted for your passport. Classic Arab employer mirage of promises.

Re: How I ended up flying for Yemen's national airline – and survived

#20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

. . . because it's your paycheck?

Get out while you're still not extorted for your passport. Classic Arab employer mirage of promises.

> Classic Arab employer

Doubt Arabs in Tunisia or Iraq do this? You probably meant the Kafala ("visa sponsorship"), usually abused by businesses (illegally so, in Bahrain and the UAE) employing blue-collar workers in ~4 GCC ("Arab") states.

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