Saudi Arabia counts on China to increase the capacity of flights by 1.5 million new seats

Saudi Arabia wants the capacity to avoid this year to and from the kingdom by at least 1.5 million seats, by increasing the number of traces by more than 22, according to the CEO of the National Air Connecting program Majid Khan. He added in an interview with “Al -Sharq” during the Arab aviation summit in Riyadh: “We registered the same increase last year, and we will not be satisfied with a lesser achievement in 2025.” It is mainly dependent on providing seats to transfer more travelers from China; ‘Travel of the Chinese market is growing gradually’, in addition to increasing the number of seats on trips from Europe and North America to other cities in the kingdom, unlike Riyadh, such as Jeddah. Also read: How Saudi Arabia works to attract 5 million Chinese tourists? The total number of seats available on airlines on their flights from and after Saudi Arabia reached 128 million, and the number of destinations is 178, at the end of 2024. Competition with the rest of the markets allows the National Air Link program last year to attract 12 new international airlines. In addition to the importance of the number, Khan takes on the quality of these tankers, such as British Airways to Jeddah, and “Virgin Atlantic”, which next month a daily flight to the capital, Riyadh, in addition to Australian “Cathy Pacific”, South China Airlines, East -Airl, “Euro Winjz” and “Altalelia” and ” Capital, Roma, until both will start, and Jeddah. The Air Link program was launched in 2021 with the aim of facilitating the entry of the market and improving the opportunities for the expansion of air travel partners, through the development of current air spores and the addition of new roads, and the program works according to the website. The chances of expansion lies mainly in the regions of the kingdom, which suffer from a lack of seats in it, and the foreign markets suffering from a lack of journeys and to them; Including more communications from the euro countries, to the western part of Saudi Arabia, and in the majority of Jeddah and Madinah, followed by the eastern region, “According to Khan. Gulf Cooper Council, where we look at our progress in the progress of the Gulf fight, where we look at more countries, is more direct struggle. Roads to these centers. “The most prominent challenge faced by its ambitions in raising the number of airlines, destinations, pathways and flights;