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  • New Saudi budget carrier to start flights next month

    SAUDI ARABIA, 2017/09/02 Saudi Arabia's new budget carrier Flyadeal said Thursday it will start flying next month, as the kingdom seeks to expand air services to boost tourism in a radical overhaul of its oil-dependent economy. Flyadeal, a subsidiary of the national-owned Saudi Arabian Airlines corporation, will operate a fleet of eight Airbus A320ceo aircraft and initially fly domestic routes before expanding in the Middle East.

  • Abu Dhabi says Gulf air embargo only applies to Qatar firms

    BAHRAIN, 2017/08/28 The air embargo imposed on Qatar only applies to airlines from Qatar or registered there, the United Arab Emirates Civil Aviation Authority said Tuesday.Embargo bans all Qatari aviation companies, aircraft registered in Qatar from landing or transiting through airspace of UAE, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain. Saudi Arabia and Bahrain issued identical statements on the air embargo, which came into result at the same time as Riyadh, Abu Dhabi and Manama broke off relations with Qatar on June 5, accusing it of supporting "terrorism".

  • Saudi Aramco-Hyundai in $5.2 billion shipyard deal

    SOUTH KOREA, 2017/06/02 Saudi Aramco is to build the region's biggest shipyard in a $5.2 billion joint venture with South Korea's Hyundai Heavy Industries and others, the partners said on Wednesday. The yard, to be constructed on the kingdom's Gulf coast, will have the capacity to produce four offshore rigs and 40 vessels, inclunding three supertankers, a year, the national-owned oil giant said in a statement. Lamprell, a United Arab Emirates-based provider of services to the energy industry, and Bahri, the National Shipping Company of Saudi Arabia, have as well signed on to the venture.

  • Alstom is producing the trains for the Riyadh Metro at its plant in Katowice, Poland

    SAUDI ARABIA, 2016/04/07 Described by officials as the major public transport system currently under development in the world, the $23 billion Riyadh Metro project is on track to be completed by the end of 2018, before than its scheduled 2019 launch date, and is set to change everyday life in the Saudi capital. Despite the government’s reductions on spending last year, which has slowed or suspended work on some of its projects, Riyadh Metro has remained unaffected. According to Alwalid Alekrish, Director of Construction Development Projects and Project Director of the Riyadh Metro at the Arriyadh Development Authority (ADA), the metro is being paid for due from ring-fenced national funds – a clear sign of its importance to the government and the impact it will have – and therefore has no specific deficit or borrowing conditions to impact on its construction.

  • The MEA chairman said they would take measures to ensure flights to allow open skies for Lebanese pilgrims.

    IRAN, 2015/09/20 Saudi Ambassador to Lebanon Ali Awad Assiri stressed on Sunday that the Saudi king has given instructions to receive the flights transporting pilgrims from Lebanon to Mecca to perform the Islamic hajj pilgrimage. “King Salam Bin Abdul Aziz has given instructions to open the skies for Lebanese pilgrims and to receive the flights of the Middle East Airlines (transporting the pilgrims),” the Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation quoted the ambassador. The ambassador’s comments came next reports said that Lebanese pilgrims were unable to leave to Saudi Arabia from presently on to perform the Hajj rituals because of the huge air traffic pressure during the Hajj season this year.

  • Saudi Arabian Airlines to expand 200 destinations worldwide

    SAUDI ARABIA, 2014/02/17 Saudi Arabian Airlines has announced plans to expand its operations to additional than 200 destinations worldwide with minimum connections. "We want to reinforce our presence in Europe, North America, Asia, particularly in China and Indonesia inclunding to open new markets in Russia, Mexico, Japan, Vietnam, Taiwan and Czech Republic," said Abdul Aziz Al-Hazmi, CEO of Saudia. He was addressing a joint press conference with Michael Wisbrun, managing director of SkyTeam. He said Saudia joined SkyTeam, a 19-member world alliance of airlines in May 2012, as part of its efforts to offer high quality services to passengers.

  • Israelis not allowed on Saudi Airlines

    ISRAEL, 2013/07/22 The New York City Public Advocate, who acts as an ombudsman, last week threatened to expel Saudi Arabian Airlines from New York’s John F Kennedy Airport because it refuses to sell tickets to Israeli-passport holders. The director general of Saudi Arabian Airlines has defended his company’s decision to discriminate against Israeli citizens by refusing to fly them from US airports, according to Arabic media. Bill de Blasio said the discrimination breached US federal law.

  • Turkey's TAV set to build Saudi terminal

    SAUDI ARABIA, 2013/05/20 Turkish airport operator TAV's construction arm said it had officially undertaken the construction and design of a terminal in King Khaled International Airport, in the Saudi Arabian province of Riyadh, as daily Hurriyet reports. The joint venture of Turkey's TAV and the local Al-Arrab Contracting Company had received the official approval for the arrangement on the design and building of the new Terminal 5 for an estimated cost of 400 million USD, the company said. "This is an significant business as the airport privatizations in Saudi Arabia are going on and this airport is part the ones planned to be privatized," TAV Group CEO Sani Sener said.

  • Saudi to open domestic airline market in September

    SAUDI ARABIA, 2013/04/06 Saudi Arabia will allow new carriers to operate from September, the kingdom’s aviation authority said on Wednesday. The statement added that airlines will be granted licenses to operate both local and international flights.  Khalid al-Khaibary, the spokesman for General Authority for Civil Aviation (GACA), said the government is reviewing license applications from 14 companies and is from presently on to take a decision in this regard.

  • The transport infrastructure projects in major cities across Saudi Arabia

    SAUDI ARABIA, 2013/01/03 The transport infrastructure projects in major cities across Saudi Arabia will be allocated SR200 billion ($53.3 billion) from the budget surplus of 2012, said a statement citing the country's finance minister. With this allocation, the Kingdom's total spending in 2013 will rise to additional than SR1 trillion ($266.6 billion), the Arab News reported.
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