Summary
- NEOM Bay Airport in Saudia Arabia expanded its flight services with Qatar Airways inaugurating recent flights to the airport on December 9, connecting it to Doha.
- This development is a component of Saudi Vision 2030, which goals to extend economic, social, and cultural connections between Saudi Arabia and other countries within the region.
- Qatar Airways now serves ten destinations in Saudi Arabia, with a deal with leisure and business travel, connecting passengers to cultural, natural, and industrial destinations inside the country.
NEOM, the brand new futuristic city emerging within the northwest corner of Saudia Arabia, is progressing forward with its regional airline connectivity with the announcement of a brand new flight service from Qatar Airways.
Latest flights at NEOM
Qatar Airways has inaugurated a brand new service to the NEOM Bay Airport (IATA: NUM). The Doha, Qatar-based airline landed its first of two weekly flights involving its home hub at Hamad International Airport (IATA: DOH) on December 9.
It’s using an Airbus A320-214 for the 1,650-mile flights. Qatar Airways flight 1205 departs NEOM Bay for Doha on Saturdays at 14:00 and Thursdays at 13:40. From Doha to NEOM Bay, Qatar Airways flight 1204 leaves Hamad International Airport at 06:55 on Saturdays and 06:35 on Thursdays.
Saudia Arabia’s larger plans
The expanding operations at NEOM Bay are a part of the Saudi Vision 2030 plan announced in 2016. One in all the primary pillars was to extend the economic, social, and cultural connections between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and other countries within the region and beyond.
While diversification from reliance on the oil industry was a major focus of the initiative, Saudi Vision 2030 was also oriented towards making Saudi Arabia the center of the Arab and Islamic worlds. The dominion is working towards accomplishing this goal by utilizing an identical model that’s currently in place in Doha and Dubai to turn out to be more of a transportation hub within the region.
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The six-runway King Salman International Airport in Riyadh is a significant a part of this initiative, as is the futuristic NEOM city and the NEOM Bay airport. In keeping with Arab News, the dominion has been effective with its tourism strategy this yr, rating second on the earth in tourist arrivals in the course of the first seven months of this yr. It also saw a 58% increase in tourism in the course of the same period this yr compared with pre-pandemic numbers from 2019.
Qatar Airways became the fourth airline to supply passenger service to NEOM Bay. The opposite airlines currently serving the airport are Flyadeal, flydubai, and Saudia. Saudia offers probably the most destinations from the airport, including Dammam, Dubai, Jeddah, London-Heathrow and Riyadh.
Qatar Airways focuses on Saudi Arabia
The flights to NEOM Bay are the tenth destination in Saudi Arabia served by Qatar Airways. In keeping with the airline, in addition they serve AlUla, Dammam, Gassim, Jeddah, Medina, Riyadh, Tabuk, Taif, and Yanbu with greater than 125 flights day by day.
Just two months ago, in October, the airline reopened flights to Yanbu and commenced recent flight service to AlUla and Tabuk. It also resumed three weekly flights to Taif in January of this yr.
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In keeping with a press release, Qatar Airways’ recent service to Saudi Arabia is concentrated on serving leisure and business travel inside the region. From a leisure perspective, the airline seeks to attach passengers to many cultural and natural destinations across the country. For business travelers, it’s all about strengthening the industrial and economic ties between the 2 Middle Eastern powerhouse nations.