Statement from Delta Airlines regarding "arrangements" with Saudi Arabian Airlines

Stuff that started a couple of days or so, ago (was here in the DU)...Interesting that it started on World Net Daily (isn't that a crazy RightWinger site that lies ALOT?). You can make your own decisions.


"Delta does not operate service or codeshares to Saudi Arabia"
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June 24, 2011

In January, SkyTeam announced that Saudi Arabian Airlines would join the alliance in 2012. Recently, World Net Daily or wnd.com inaccurately reported that Delta discriminates and has adopted a “no Jew” policy. These false rumors have spread throughout many social media and traditional news outlets.

“Delta Air Lines does not discriminate nor do we condone discrimination against any of our customers in regards to age, race, nationality, religion, or gender,” Delta said in a statement Friday. “Delta does not operate service to Saudi Arabia and does not codeshare with any airline on flights to that country. Delta does not intend to codeshare or share reciprocal benefits, such as frequent flier benefits, with Saudi Arabian Airlines, which we have confirmed with SkyTeam, an Amsterdam-based 14-member global airline alliance.

“Delta’s only agreement with Saudi Arabian Airlines is a standard industry interline agreement, which allows passengers to book tickets on multiple carriers, similar to the standard interline agreements American Airlines, US Airways and Alaska Airlines have with Saudi Arabian Airlines,” the statement said. “All of the three global airline alliances – Star, which includes United Airlines; oneworld, which includes American Airlines, and SkyTeam, which includes Delta – have members that fly to Saudi Arabia and are subject to that country’s rules governing entry.”

Saudi Arabian Airlines follows the same government-created visa rules that any carrier serving Saudi Arabia must. That includes the nearly a dozen carriers who are members of other airline alliances that fly to the Middle Eastern country every day.

Passengers who fly any international carrier – on SkyTeam or another alliance – must meet the requirements to gain a visa entry into Saudi Arabia.

Therefore, the rule has to be no discrimination against any group.

is any text containing jargon or especially convoluted English that results in it being excessively hard to understand or even incomprehensible. "Bureaucratese" is one form of gobbledygook.


"Gobbledygook may indicate a failure to think clearly, a contempt for one's clients, or more probably a mixture of both. A system that can't or won't communicate is not a safe basis for a democracy.


Iran? Saudia Arabia? I think I really dislike the Saudis more since most of the 911 highjackers and funding comes from there...