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I think Air France tried something similar last year with flights to either Saudi Arabia or Turkey. The flight attendants simply refused to fly there and the company backtracked.
The airline was fined 20 million Dong, around US$880, for the unsanctioned PR stunt. It has since become synonymous with bikini wearing flight stewards and regularly uses them in advertising campaigns.
This reminded me of the time that I flew Royal Air Maroc from Agadir, Morocco to Casablanca, Morocco, to make a connection with another Royal Air Maroc flight to London.
The flight attendants on the internal flight only spoke Arabic and French, and when they came down the aisle with the beverage cart, they said, "Voulez-vous boire quelque chose?", (Would you like something to drink?).
I, just waking up, said, "Oui, vodka s'il vous plaît", (Yes, vodka please).
The F.A. almost fainted, the guy next to me, an Australian, said, "Major screw up up pal, Islamic rules, no alcohol"
I quickly apologised, and asked for jus de pamplemousse, (grapefruit juice), and averted an international incident.
This reminded me of the time that I flew Royal Air Maroc from Agadir, Morocco to Casablanca, Morocco, to make a connection with another Royal Air Maroc flight to London.
The flight attendants on the internal flight only spoke Arabic and French, and when they came down the aisle with the beverage cart, they said, "Voulez-vous boire quelque chose?", (Would you like something to drink?).
I, just waking up, said, "Oui, vodka s'il vous plaît", (Yes, vodka please).
The F.A. almost fainted, the guy next to me, an Australian, said, "Major screw up up pal, Islamic rules, no alcohol"
I quickly apologised, and asked for jus de pamplemousse, (grapefruit juice), and averted an international incident.
Yes, while I agree that the default Aussie word for someone they know, even if only vaguely, is mate, he may have deduced from our short conversations that going by my accent I was a blue collar Londoner.
Ergo he may have opted for pal instead of mate, but it was so long ago now, that he may even have called me bud, I couldn't swear to it, but whether it was mate bud or pal, the inference was the same, he was giving me a "heads-up" about the fact that I'd sleepily asked a Muslim F.A. for alcohol.
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"Pal" not "mate"
