Saudia

[AdamHussain07]

Upping a frequency will depend on slot availability though

Fair enough, would like to see them on a Saturday like July/August 2024, even if only on a temporary basis like before too I still wouldn’t mind.

 

[AdamHussain07]

HZ-ARB due in today. Swapped out from HZ-ARC.

 

[mullion]

That special scheme is one of the best around

 

[AdamHussain07]

Maybe not the best quality picture, but I just had to go today.

 

[mullion]

Bit of sun would make all difference

 

[IanFarquharson]

And full again outbound !

 

[nwoody2001]

Indeed, shame it isn't filling inbound though

I can’t imagine most flights are filling inbound atm… it’s still very much the start to the summer holidays… most EK/SV/TK flights coming in much more empty than they are leaving. QR appears the exception which is just full nearly all the time!

 

[nwoody2001]

indeed it did, but it left with 287 on the way out at least....

 

[AdamHussain07]

A lot of empty seats on the inbounds I wouldn’t mind moving to actually, for viewing purposes only. This was my seat on the 2nd of Jan (51A).

At the time, I was so glad I got this seat for free (would have had to pay a good amount for the exit row seats) as the flight was full to the rafters.

This was on HZ-AR33, by far my favourite 787 out there, and the newest aircraft I’ve been on as well (At the time was 1.4 yrs old).

 

[AdamHussain07]

HZ-ARB due in later today, still in its special scheme.

 

[AdamHussain07]

Yet again, HZ-ARB is scheduled for SVA253, which may be subject to change, fingers crossed it doesn’t

 

[AdamHussain07]

Yet again, HZ-ARB is scheduled for SVA253, which may be subject to change, fingers crossed it doesn’t

Never mind… HZ-ARC’s been placed on the sector

 

[mullion]

Yes I thought it was doing a split shift as B is in MAN today

 

[IanFarquharson]

Sunday's and now today's outbounds both full on 78X

 

[AdamHussain07]

Hopefully same loads when I go next year, this year was a miss

 

[Birmingham Aviation]

Saudia increasing its Birmingham to Jeddah route to 4 weekly from the 9th May 2026
Operating Saturdays

According to Expert flyer.STC

 

[nwoody2001]

the rumours seem to be spreading, now reported by SeanM but be interesting to see when/if flights go on sale....

LGW in comparison seem to have all flights from SV being removed!

 

[IanFarquharson]

We need the extra capacity, last 5 outbounds have been full

 

[Birmingham Aviation]

Just need Doha to be 2 daily and I’ll be happy

 

[AdamHussain07]

Amazing stuff! Hope they maintain it for Winter too