Delta's Direct Flights to Saudi Arabia: Where 'Business Ties Deepen' Means 'Amnesia Takes Flight'
Delta's decision to launch the first direct US-Saudi flight in 2025, trumpeted by Al-Monitor as burgeoning 'business ties,' conveniently skips the inconvenient baggage. We're talking about a nation still remembered for the murder and dismemberment of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018 (CID report from US intelligence agencies confirms MBS's approval), not to mention its ongoing, devastating war in
Yemen that created one of the world's worst humanitarian crises. The 'deepening ties' appear to be directly proportional to the thinning collective memory in US corporate boardrooms. One might wonder if premium cabin service includes an air-sick bag for the sudden onset of moral relativism, or perhaps The New York Times will just classify Khashoggi as an 'unfortunate incident' in its glossy travel
guide. It seems the price of crude oil, or perhaps crude politics, is directly linked to how quickly we can forget inconvenient truths. After all, what's a little dismemberment when there's profit to be made?