About.

I’m Iqbal Basha. M — Vice President of Operations & Sourcing at FlyAkeed in Riyadh, where I lead the teams that keep a fast-growing corporate travel platform running: sourcing, supplier strategy, and the operational machinery behind every booking.

I started at Akbar Travels of India and spent the next two decades inside the engine rooms of Gulf travel — Al Tayyar, Tajawal, Al Musafer — watching the industry shift from phone calls and paper tickets to APIs and automation. That shift is the thread through my whole career: I build the operations that let technology actually deliver.

I believe the next decade of travel belongs to companies that treat operations as a product, not a cost center. That’s what I write about here — and if it’s what you’re working on too, I’d like to hear from you.