\u201dQatar Airways and Gulf Air launch in Saudi Arabia with a large fleet
\nRiyadh \u2013 Follow-up
\nThe two new airlines, Gulf Air and Qatar Airways, are poised to take off with force from Saudi Arabia at the end of the first half of 2014, to transport passengers to domestic and international destinations at a time when citizens eagerly await the start of the actual operation, which will move the aviation sector in the Kingdom to a historic phase where the two airlines will help Saudi Airlines meet the growing demand for seats due to the size of the Saudi market, which is four times the capacity of the national carrier.
\n Reports indicate that Qatar Airways will enter the Saudi market strongly and will carry the name \u201cAl Maha,\u201d starting with the major cities in the Kingdom, including Riyadh and Jeddah, and then moving on to smaller cities.
\n Qatar Airways, which began its operations in 1997, was able to grow and expand its global network in a short time, qualifying it to be named the world\u2019s best airline. Qatar Airways won the \u201cWorld\u2019s Best Airline\u201d award at the SkyTrax Awards 2011 and 2012 ceremony based on the votes of passengers from around the world in the latest survey conducted by the organization.
\nWhile its network has expanded at an unprecedented annual rate of 30%, it today operates one of the newest fleets of aircraft in the air to more than 125 destinations in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Asia-Pacific region, North and South America, and has more than 120 modern aircraft. It has also recently ordered the purchase of 50 new Boeing 777 aircraft in a deal worth $19 billion.
\n Gulf Air began its journey in 1950 and is fully owned by the Kingdom of Bahrain. Initially, it was a joint ownership between the governments of Bahrain, the Sultanate of Oman, the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, and Qatar. These countries withdrew one after another until Gulf Air became the official national carrier of the Kingdom of Bahrain in 2006. Currently, it serves more than 30 destinations on various continents and countries around the world and has a fleet of 34 aircraft and 59 other leased aircraft ranging from the Embraer 190 to the Airbus A320 in various forms, and finally the Boeing 737.
\nThe fuel prices constitute a major concern and obstacle for the companies \u201dGulf Air and Qatar Airways\u201d, due to their high prices compared to other international airports, in addition to the fact that the local carrier \u201dSaudi Airlines\u201d obtains reduced fuel prices compared to foreign companies that require this feature in order to create a competitive environment that encourages all companies, which is what the Civil Aviation Authority seeks to achieve in its efforts with Aramco.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Reading time: <\/span> 2<\/span> Minutes<\/span><\/span>\u201dQatar Airways and Gulf Air are launching their operations in the Kingdom through a massive fleet. Follow-ups: The two new airlines, Gulf Air and Qatar Airways, are preparing to take off with force in Saudi Arabia at the end of the first half of 2014, to transport passengers to domestic and international destinations at a time when citizens eagerly await the start of the actual operation, which will take the aviation sector in the Kingdom to a new stage \u2026 Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"0","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_seopress_news_disabled":"","_seopress_video_disabled":"","_seopress_video":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas_manual":[],"_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable_all":"","_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas":[],"amlak_video_sent":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7791],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-strategy"],"acf":{"amlak_post_excerpt":"","amlak_post_excerpt_source":{"label":"Amlak post excerpt","type":"text","formatted_value":""}},"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","trp-custom-language-flag":"","event-thumbnail":"","event-medium":"","event-large":"","event-hero":""},"author_info":{"info":["\u0627\u0645\u0644\u0627\u0643 \u0627\u0644\u0639\u0642\u0627\u0631\u064a\u0629"]},"category_info":"\u0627\u0644\u0627\u0633\u062a\u0631\u0627\u062a\u064a\u062c\u064a\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u0648\u0637\u0646\u064a\u0629<\/a>","tag_info":"\u0627\u0644\u0627\u0633\u062a\u0631\u0627\u062a\u064a\u062c\u064a\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u0648\u0637\u0646\u064a\u0629","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amlak.net.sa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amlak.net.sa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amlak.net.sa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amlak.net.sa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amlak.net.sa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amlak.net.sa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amlak.net.sa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amlak.net.sa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amlak.net.sa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}