Word: ghandour
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jews. We have the Moslems. Now we're going to fight El Al for the Christian trade." So says Aly Ghandour, managing director of the five-plane Royal Jordanian Airlines. With a new twist on an ancient feud, the Amman-based, government-owned line is challenging its larger Israeli counterpart for what Ghandour calls "the Bible traffic"-Westerners traveling in tour groups to Jerusalem...
...Israeli border officials have allowed foreign tour groups from Amman to cross the Jordan River to the Israeli-occupied West Bank, which contains most of the sites mentioned in the Bible. Many of the tourists are destined for Jerusalem. "We consider Amman the proper gateway to Jerusalem," says Ghandour, 42, who was educated in aeronautical engineering at New York University and gained practical experience as a mechanic with American Airlines. So Royal Jordanian, also called Alia after King Hussein's eldest daughter, is offering Westerners a chance to go to the Middle East via Amman and see both...
...Matruh, swing inland over Egypt to Luxor, turn again to cross the Red Sea and fly north over Saudi Arabia to reach Amman. The nonstop flight lasts four hours and consumes nearly every drop of fuel. "It is just within range with nothing to spare," says Alia Director Ali Ghandour. "If a hijacker demands to go to some onward destination, he will die for his decision...