Good report. ^
Originally Posted by
trsqr
At the door I was greeted by a female F/A, who had covered her head, but otherwise was wearing a typical uniform. I noticed that the ladies travelling on the flight generally did not wear an abaya at this point of the flight.
Somewhat surprisingly, none on the stewardesses on any Saudi airlines wear abayas -- this is one of those very rare instances where they've opted for practicality over convention. However, I gather that few if any of the crew are actually Saudis, Filipinas seem to make up the biggest group with Maghrebi Arabs (Morocco, Tunisia, etc) making up the rest.
I've generally found service on SV (Y) to be somewhat surly, but they do usually make an effort if you ask and are nice about it. The last time I flew DXB-RUH on SV, the crew didn't pass out landing cards for some reason, so I asked for one and, after scrounging for a while, the steward dug up one just for me. This paid off big time at the airport: turns out RUH seemed to be out of cards as well, so everybody in the lengthy queue in front of me was turned away and I got through in a jiffy
