When noon arrived, the bus reached Monastir Habib Bourguiba International Airport in Tunisia, and Morgan's plane had already landed. It was currently being refueled and undergoing routine ground checks, while Gao Yang's bus drove directly onto the airport tarmac.
Monastir Airport is the busiest civil airport in Tunisia, and ever since the civil war began in Libya, many of the planes taking off and landing here are unmarked cargo planes, some even military transport planes—just without any national insignia. Everyone knows what's going on; it's just that no one speaks of it openly.
Morgan's plane was mixed in among these transport planes, and when Gao Yang's bus arrived at the apron reserved for those sensitive aircraft, Morgan was already waiting beneath his plane.