• Updated: 17/07/2021 - 07:06
Workers are putting the final touches on a decommissioned Boeing 707 aircraft to ready it for a new kind of takeoff: as a restaurant.
Its enterprising owners, 60-year-old twin brothers Ata and Khamis al-Sairafi, expect to welcome their first customers very soon at their isolated mountain location near Nablus in the West Bank.
Inside the old jet s cabin, the seats have been stripped out and the window panes removed. Tables will soon be fitted in the fuselage, which has been painted white with laminate wooden floors.
“We do not have enough time before Eid al-Adha to complete the work, so we will start by providing fast food and hookahs,” explains one half of the duo, Khamis al-Sairafi.
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