00:00A very interesting time to have launched an airline, to have one taken to the skies.
00:04Obviously, tensions in the region.
00:07How have you overcome the obvious challenges associated with that?
00:11Well, I think I've been in the industry for over three decades,
00:15and there's always been challenges around, be they geopolitical, economical,
00:21volcanic ash crowds, SARS, MERS, COVID, and so on and so forth.
00:27I speculate there's probably going to be challenges going forward for the next generation as well.
00:32The trick to this is realising the fact that the demand for travel is relentless, first and foremost.
00:39I think I went on the record towards the end of COVID and said there'll be revenge tourism.
00:46It will go off like a fire hydrant.
00:49And, of course, since then, that's pretty much what we've seen.
00:52Right now, I think Riyadh, geographically, is fortunate where it's positioned.
00:58We all hope that the conflict will be resolved very, very soon, obviously.
01:03But what we see is all the fundamentals are very, very strong.
01:07Tactical decisions in the short term, in terms of pivoting from one destination to another,
01:12as a start-up, are almost a given.
01:15So we're just super excited to be in the game.
01:17We'll see you done.
01:18We'll see you.
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