Thursday 14 / November / 2024
Jeddah: A minutes of agreement was signed in Jeddah yesterday between the civil aviation authorities of the Sultanate and Saudi Arabia to regularise air transport rights between the two countries.
The minutes of agreement was signed at the conclusion of air transport talks held between the two countries on the sidelines of the General Assembly’s meeting and the Executive Council of Arab Civil Aviation Commission’s (ACAC) meeting in Jeddah.
The agreement stipulates increasing the number of flights between the two countries as the airline firms of each side have rights to operate 112 weekly flights compared to 35 flights previously.
The agreed number flights will be distributed by 28 weekly flights between the Sultanate and each of Riyadh, Jeddah, Dammam and Ta’if. The two delegations also agreed on operating unlimited number of flights between the Sultanate and Al Madinah Al Munawwarah as per arrangements of open skies.
It was also agreed to amend air routes table between the two countries to allow airlines of each side to operate flights to all international airports in the other country, in addition to discussing several operational and technical matters between the two countries.
The minutes of agreement was signed from the Sultanate’s side by Dr. Mohammed bin Nasser Al Za’abi, CEO of the Public Authority for Civil Aviation (PACA) whilst it was signed from the KSA side by Sulaiman bin Abdullah al-Hamdan, Minister of Transport, Board Chairman of the KSA Public Authority for Civil Aviation.
