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Originally Posted by Fightful There's an odd travel situation happening right now in Saudi Arabia, as WWE's charter flight has been delayed for several hours. Fightful learned early Monday morning that a charter plane containing the majority of the WWE roster and staff had never taken off. Those who were supposed to be aboard were told of "delays," and some have become suspicious of the delay. Many of the people that are set to fly out have been awake all through the day and night already, with several scheduled to compete on WWE Smackdown Friday. All of those we spoke to still in Saudi Arabia said they don't expect to make it back to the States in time for Smackdown. They were supposed to take off at 4:44 AM local time, and as of four hours later hadn't. The 12 hour flight would have had the plane arriving in Buffalo around 10 AM, with Smackdown taking place there ten hours later. Vince McMahon, Brock Lesnar and Hulk Hogan are all already flying back, as they had their own flights. One talent said that Vince was out of there hours ago, while talent was still on the ground. Some that we've talked to on the flight are clearly annoyed and perturbed by the situation, while others aren't so concerned, even saying "they'll figure it out, because they always do." So there's hardly a unanimous temperature on the delays.

Not surprised at Vince bolting and leaving everyone else to deal with whatever is causing the problems there.