THE AIRLINE PERSPECTIVE: Saudi Arabia

Every week The HUB provides statistics highlighting airline and airport activity in an individual domestic and international market. Alongside looking at the market's historical development over the past 30 years, we take the following week's schedule as a snapshot and compare weekly seat capacity with the previous year, showing which airlines and airports are growing and which are constraining.

The data is all supplied by our sister UBM Aviation brand OAG Aviation from OAG Schedules iNET.

SAUDI ARABIA DOMESTIC AIR SERVICES (non-stop weekly departures)

Rank

Airline

Weekly Flights

Weekly Seats

% Capacity

% Change (2011)

1

Saudi Arabian Airlines (SV)

2,224

302,044

92.0 %

13.2 %

2

Nasair – National Air Service (XY)

196

25,480

7.8 %

19.2 %

3

Lion Air (JT)

2

760

0.2 %

(-66.7) %

(Others)

-

-

-

TOTAL

2,422

328,284

-

13.0 %

SAUDI ARABIA INTERNATIONAL AIR SERVICES (non-stop weekly departures)

Rank

Airline

Weekly Flights

Weekly Seats

% Capacity

% Change (2011)

1

Saudi Arabian Airlines (SV)

505

113,885

28.4 %

1.4 %

2

EgyptAir (MS)

227

50,028

12.5 %

0.2 %

3

NasAir – National Air Service (XY)

157

21,991

5.5 %

(-24.8) %

4

Emirates Airline (EK)

60

20,771

5.2 %

38.1 %

5

flydubai (FZ)

71

13,419

3.3 %

129.0 %

6

Pakistan International Airlines (PK)

35

12,176

3.0 %

6.4 %

7

Gulf Air (GF)

71

11,693

2.9 %

19.9 %

8

Qatar Airways (QR)

60

11,085

2.8 %

(-0.4) %

9

Turkish Airlines (TK)

53

11,009

2.7 %

9.0 %

10

Etihad Airways (EY)

43

10,892

2.7 %

14.5 %

(Others)

636

124,231

31.0 %

4.1 %

TOTAL

1,918

401,180

-

4.6 %

Richard Maslen

Richard Maslen has travelled across the globe to report on developments in the aviation sector as airlines and airports have continued to evolve and…