It has come to light that the confirmed bookings that the New Brits had on Qatar Airways (Saturday 4-Feb-12) has been cancelled. The reason for the cancelation of the group booking for the 19 Brits is unclear. I phoned one of the British students from the Hadith Department a short time ago (Numan) and he will be going to the worker (Amr, From Al-Tayar Travel Agents) who booked the tickets to find out exactly what is going on.

The Islamic University of Madinah buys the tickets for its students from two different places: the Saudi Airlines tickets from the Saudi Airlines office in the University, and they buy tickets for other Airlines from Al-Tayar travel agent which has a branch on the University campus also. So the Qatar Airways tickets for the Brits were booked and purchased at the Tayar Travel Agent office in the University. The brother Amr who booked the tickets only books the tickets he does not make the decisions or pay the fines, the university admission department makes these decisions.

Some students are now stating they want to buy their own tickets, I advise you all with patience and Dua, we should wait and find out what brother Numan finds out tomorrow.

Can all the brits please email me or post a comment explaining their current sitiuation, because some students have already arrived in Madinah and some students have not been heard from in some time, and some want to buy their own tickets.

'Anakumullah

Abu Unays Mujaahid