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Back from Arabia -- er, Egypt

Posted on June 24, 2008

A week ago, I boarded an overnight flight from New York's JFK airport to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, with a planned change of planes in Cairo, Egypt. Everything was fine until I got to the transfer gate in Cairo about noon the next day, where I was informed that there was a problem with my visa. It seems I'd received incomplete information on visa requirements from my contacts in Jeddah, and had failed to acquire the necessary processing in Washington, DC, before departing. The Egyptian gate agents did their best to help me resolve the problem, making calls and sending faxes to Saudi Arabia, but...

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