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Kuwaiti airline offers women free flight to elections
Yahoo News UK & Ireland ^ | 6/17/2006 | AFP

Posted on 06/20/2006 9:32:03 AM PDT by eraser2005

KUWAIT CITY (AFP) - A Kuwaiti budget airline said it is offering free air tickets to all women who wish to travel to Kuwait later this month for the first election in which women can campaign and vote.

"We want to ensure that as many women as possible have the available access to return to Kuwait to vote in these historic elections," Chairman and CEO Marwan Boodai of Jazeera Airways, Kuwait's first private airline, said in a statement.

(Excerpt) Read more at uk.news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: elections; jazeera; kuwait; suffrage; women
I hope they have good security for these flights....
1 posted on 06/20/2006 9:32:06 AM PDT by eraser2005
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To: eraser2005

Is the airline owned by the STATE?


2 posted on 06/20/2006 9:32:53 AM PDT by rovenstinez (,)
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