It seemed like quite a few got their private, though not as high of a percentage as American students. It seemed like the Saudi airline kept throwing money at them, so at the point where struggling American students would drop out for finanical reasons, the Saudis kept burning more flight time and eventually they got to PTS standards. However, their success past private dropped off quite sharply.

With the first few, there were some big language -barrier issues, so the university got strict about what level of English they had to have to enroll in a flight course, so many of them were taking gen-eds on campus for 6 months or so before they started flying and that seemed to help some.