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While looking around to find an article about a decision an airline has recently made, I came upon this article that read: “Iraqi Minister’s son misses flight, forces plan back”. Although this was not a decision made by an airliner, rather it was the decision made by airport managers that affected an airline. According to the article, a Middle East Airlines plane flying from Lebanon to Iraq on Thursday turned back after the Iraqi transport minister's son missed the flight and phoned Baghdad to stop the aircraft from landing (airwise, 2014). Marwan Salha, acting chairman of MEA, told Reuters the flight, scheduled to leave at 12:40 local time, had been delayed for six minutes while MEA staff looked for Mahdi al-Amiri, son of Hadi al-Amiri, and his friend in the business lounge."We made the necessary announcements and the last calls," he said. "The plane took off but one of the passengers turned out to be the son of the minister of Iraq."Salha said that when Amiri arrived at the gate he was angry and said: "I will not allow the plane to land in Baghdad."Twenty-one minutes into the flight, the Baghdad airport station manager called MEA operations to tell them there was no clearance to land, Salha said. The plane then returned to Beirut and the passengers disembarked. When I first read this article I was like: “Are you kidding me? A flight had to turn back to where it came from just because the so called minster son missed the flight.” I mean, I agree with the decision made by the airliner to take off six minutes late after that one passenger was nowhere to be found. After all, they did their best to wait around for six minutes. The decision that I am disagreeing with is the decision made by the Iranian airport management. It is disturbing that a management would come up with a decision like this just because the country minister’s son missed his flight. I guess this is