The head of the International Air Transport Association has said he sees room for the planned new national airline in Saudi Arabia among the established travel mega-hubs in the UAE and Qatar, as Middle East carriers continue to recover from the pandemic.
“Do I see scope for a hub in Saudi? Yes,” Willie Walsh, Iata’s director general, said at a media briefing in Geneva on Wednesday.
“There is scope for the geographic location of a new hub not in close proximity to Dubai and Doha. That is something that could work.”
Saudi Arabia is developing its aviation sector as part of a government strategy to become a global transport and logistics hub by 2030. The kingdom has announced plans for a new national carrier to be based at King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, as part of its aviation strategy.
Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has announced that a new airport will be opened in the capital Riyadh with six parallel runways and designed to accommodate up to 120 million travellers by 2030.
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