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Chapter 1800 SEA's Global Spring Festival Travel Rush (Second update, please subscribe)

Whenever the holiday season, think twice.

Different from other countries, for SEA people, the most important festival of the year is the Spring Festival.

This year's Spring Festival is different from previous years. On February 2, the Spring Festival has a rare phenomenon of the Beginning of Spring, New Year's Eve and the Spring Festival being connected.

Although it seems very special, not many people care about it. When the Spring Festival is approaching, the most important thing for SEA people is to go home!
This is the Spring Festival travel rush.

However, SEA's Spring Festival travel is different. The most prosperous routes are always international routes. For SEA, a "trade-based country", the most important thing is foreign trade. In order to develop and maintain overseas markets, coupled with a large amount of overseas investment, there are more than 50 SEA people working overseas, and they are scattered all over the world.

Every year on the eve of the Spring Festival, they would fly back to China with their families to reunite with their relatives and friends.

This is the busiest time of the year for air transport. In just a few days, millions of people fly back to SEA. This time of year is the biggest challenge facing SEA airlines. They must adjust flights at any time to meet the needs of various places.

With the continuous increase of overseas investment, more and more SEAs go overseas to work or do business.

Therefore, this Spring Festival travel will only get busier and busier...

Nairobi Airport, January 1, the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month
The waiting hall was crowded with people of different skin colors - Asians, Europeans, and Africans. Everyone had a smile on their face, and the air was filled with a cheerful anticipation.

The airport broadcast played cheerful music, occasionally interspersed with bilingual reports of flight information in Chinese and English. The high-hanging red lanterns, festive "Fu" paper-cuts and huge posters with "Happy New Year" decorated the entire space with a festive atmosphere.

"After eating Laba rice, we will prepare for the New Year."

Today is Laba, and the Spring Festival is getting closer. For many SEAs working in East Africa, this is the most important time of the year to go home. Carrying the fatigue and harvest of the year, they hurried to the airport and embarked on the journey back home.

Standing in the crowd, Wang Changan stared at the boarding gate, his fingers unconsciously stroking his boarding pass. He had been working in East Africa since graduating from university last year, and this was the first time he had been away from home for so long.

Now that the Spring Festival is approaching, he rushed to the airport on the day the company was on holiday. At this moment, he felt both excited and anxious - he could finally go home.

Most of the other people felt the same way. Fortunately, the company had booked the ticket for him. If he was not a group client of the company, he would have to wait an unknown amount of time to book the ticket on his own.

The long queue at the ticket office is proof of that.

Most of the people around him are returnees like him, but many of them have families with them. The company encourages employees to bring their families to work overseas, and there are special SEA schools all over East Africa. Now many employees have chosen to settle here. Of course, they still retain their SEA nationality. After all, no one is crazy enough to give up their SEA nationality.

Men were carrying large backpacks and pulling suitcases, women were pulling trolley cases, and children were also carrying backpacks and pulling their own suitcases. The adults would bow their heads and give instructions from time to time, while more children were running around excitedly, pointing at the decorations in the airport and chattering about questions.

The entire waiting room was filled with laughter, as if it was a grand party.

This is a homecoming party.

"Passengers taking flight C566 to Chang'an, please start boarding..."

As the broadcast sounded, the crowd immediately surged.

Wang Changan took a deep breath, picked up his backpack, pulled his suitcase, and followed the crowd to the boarding gate.

Checking tickets, boarding, finding seats, everything is easy.

Not until the plane slowly taxied and took off did he finally relax, leaning back in his seat, and looking out the window at the African land gradually disappearing into the distance.

This is SEA's granary. Their job here is to provide enough food and meat to the country.

Now it's time to go home!

Looking down at his watch, Wang Changan unconsciously raised a smile on his face.

"This time tomorrow, you'll be able to see your parents."

Amid the roar of the C707's engine, the plane broke through the clouds and flew northwest.

Like all intercontinental flights, this plane taking off from Nairobi will also transfer at the Straits Airport in Musandam, which is an airport invested and built by Borneo Airlines. It is more like a city than an airport. The city is located in Musandam, south of the Strait of Hormuz, which is SEA's leased territory.

In the past few years, Borneo Airlines and many other companies have invested in the establishment of Straits International Airport, which is located on the southeast coast of the Arabian Gulf, connecting the center of the Eurasian continent. Therefore, Straits International Airport has naturally become a major hub for Asian passengers to fly to Europe.

In just a few years, it has developed into the most important aviation hub in Eurasia, capable of taking off and landing all current aircraft types. It is one of the world's important aviation stopovers, with many planes traveling between Asia, Europe and Africa stopping here.

Because of the large number of shops within the airport, it has become a prime location for local duty-free shopping.

Thanks to this, a city centered on the airport has now been formed here. This city is prosperous. It has even become a city that people don't want to leave once they come here.

In order to promote the development of tourism, the airport management center took a different approach and used its acquired vision to turn this place into a "world gambling city", making it a shining pearl in the Middle East desert.

The world's aviation hub and the world's gambling city!
I don’t know how many tourists are attracted by this dual advantage. Tourists from Eurasia can enjoy life here to the fullest. More importantly, it is different from SEA, which has strict visa review.

Like all the concessions obtained by SEA from the UK, Musandam is also a free port. People from all over the world can enter with ordinary passports, without applying for a visa in advance, and there is no entry fee. The stay period is 30 days. According to relevant regulations, you can also pay a fee to extend it once and stay for another 1 days!
In some specific countries, you can even stay for 6 months.

In short, as the pearl in the Middle East desert, it is gradually becoming the world's most famous tourist destination.

As an aviation hub, the airport is home to more passengers transferring to other areas. In the later hall, there are many passengers from all over the world who are waiting in the hall to transfer to other areas.

In the spacious hall, Abdullah would occasionally look elsewhere and at some people. Most of those people were single like him. They generally sat there motionless, occasionally looking elsewhere.

But most of the time, they just sat there motionless, and from their clothes and appearance, it could be seen that these people were probably foreigners who came here to work, just like him.

There are many foreigners working in Strait City, including Palestinians, Egyptians, and Indians. They generally do the lowest-level and cheapest jobs.

Of course, there are also some women who look very fashionably dressed. They are Asians, Europeans, and Middle Eastern women. What jobs do they do here?

It is very likely that he was working in the service industry in the hotel. Of course, this kind of service is very widespread, but it certainly has nothing to do with workers like Abdullah.

"What a shameless bunch of women!"

When this thought flashed through his mind, Abdullah felt more dissatisfied, because his income was very low and it was impossible for him to have any contact with those women.

At the same time, his heart was full of envy. What he envied was not these women, but those SEAs. They were born in high positions, and each of them earned more than ten times the salary of ordinary people. They were engaged in the easiest but highest-paying jobs. Even at the airport, they would receive the favored glances of women.

"What an enviable group of people. But when I return to India, I will be the enviable one..."

In India, all those who work abroad are the most envied people. After returning to India, Abdullah can even start the concubine selection mode and choose a marriage partner at will, and the other party needs to pay a huge amount of dowry. After all, he is a foreigner - an expatriate working overseas.

"This time when I go back, I must find a rich and beautiful wife!"

Just as Abdullah was thinking this in his heart, the boarding reminder came from the radio, so he took his boarding pass, dragged his heavy luggage, and started queuing for boarding like everyone else.

The eighth day of the twelfth lunar month.

It seemed to be a very ordinary day. On this day, Straits International Airport was busy as usual, with tens of thousands of passengers transiting here and hundreds of planes taking off and landing at the airport and flying to all parts of the world.

Passengers from all over the world transfer here to planes to their destinations. These passengers from all over the world can feel the strong New Year atmosphere at the airport.

“This is their most important festival of the year.”

This thought came to Abdullah's mind when he boarded the plane and saw the New Year decorations everywhere in the cabin.

He had also seen such decorations in hotels in Strait City, but such festivals had nothing to do with him.

Soon, the plane was full of passengers, most of whom were SEAs. Of course, there were also some Indians like Abdullah. Most of them were people like him who worked at the lowest levels here. Some of them might be expatriates living in East Africa.

However, overall, SEA still has the largest number of people.

As Abdullah looked around, the plane took off...

(End of this chapter)