From USA Today (boldface mine):

Air traffic controllers expressed outrage Sunday over a request that no women work a flight carrying Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah. A spokesman for the prince, who met with President Bush in Texas last week, called the report ''pure fiction'' on Fox News Sunday. But officials with the National Air Traffic Controllers Association said the request was forwarded to a Waco, Texas, facility on a tape-recorded line Thursday morning before the prince's flight arrived. ''We're insulted and offended,'' said John Carr, president of the controller's union.

Maybe this can all be blamed on an overenthusiastic Saudi aide, and probably will be. Anyway, this is hardly the most outrageous thing a Saudi prince has done in the past.