THE AIRPORT PERSPECTIVE: Saudi Arabia

Every week The HUB provides statistics highlighting airline and airport activity in an individual domestic and international market. Alongside looking at the market's historical development over the past 30 years, we take the following week's schedule as a snapshot and compare weekly seat capacity with the previous year, showing which airlines and airports are growing and which are constraining.

The data is all supplied by our sister UBM Aviation brand OAG Aviation from OAG Schedules iNET.

SAUDI ARABIA DOMESTIC AIR SERVICES (non-stop weekly departures)

Rank

Airport

Weekly Flights

Weekly Seats

% Capacity

% Change (2011)

1

Jeddah King Abdulaziz International (JED)

689

100,744

30.7 %

21.2 %

2

Riyadh King Khaled International (RUH)

610

92,570

28.2 %

24.2 %

3

Dammam King Fahd International (DMM)

222

29,761

9.1 %

34.6 %

4

Abha (AHB)

162

21,087

6.4 %

58.4 %

5

Madinah Mohammad Bin Abdulaziz (MED)

172

20,403

6.2 %

(-18.6) %

6

Jazan (GIZ)

78

10,226

3.1 %

(-0.8) %

7

Tabuk (TUU)

71

8,877

2.7 %

7.1 %

8

Nejran (EAM)

54

5,742

1.7 %

28.6 %

9

Gassim Regional (ELQ)

47

5,280

1.6 %

29.4 %

10

Hail (HAS)

39

5,016

1.5 %

(-30.9) %

(Others)

278

28,578

8.7 %

(-24.7) %

TOTAL

2,422

328,284

-

13.0 %

HOME AIRPORT: SAUDI ARABIA INTERNATIONAL AIR SERVICES (non-stop weekly departures)

Rank

Airport

Weekly Flights

Weekly Seats

% Capacity

% Change (2011)

1

Jeddah King Abdulaziz International (JED)

928

210,006

52.3 %

6.7 %

2

Riyadh King Khaled International (RUH)

534

109,394

27.3 %

(-3.3) %

3

Dammam King Fahd International (DMM)

272

44,919

11.2 %

(-5.0) %

4

Madinah Mohammad Bin Abdulaziz (MED)

109

23,959

6.0 %

22.8 %

5

Yanbu (YNB)

23

4,194

1.0 %

147.6 %

6

Taif (TIF)

18

3,243

0.8 %

New Entrant

7

Abha (AHB)

18

2,549

0.6 %

9.0 %

8

Gassim Regional (ELQ)

14

2,538

0.6 %

(-5.7) %

9

Tabuk (TUU)

2

378

0.1 %

New Entrant

(Others)

-

-

-

(-100.0) %

TOTAL

1,918

401,180

-

4.6 %

DESTINATION AIRPORT: SAUDI ARABIA INTERNATIONAL AIR SERVICES (non-stop weekly departures)

Rank

Airport

Weekly Flights

Weekly Seats

% Capacity

% Change (2011)

1

Cairo International (CAI)

327

78,200

19.5 %

8.1 %

2

Dubai International (DXB)

196

46,709

11.6 %

35.6 %

3

Kuwait International (KWI)

88

15,856

4.0 %

29.8 %

4

Bahrain International (BAH)

100

15,049

3.8 %

31.2 %

5

Istanbul Ataturk (IST)

67

14,019

3.5 %

7.7 %

6

Abu Dhabi International (AUH)

64

13,339

3.3 %

17.9 %

7

Doha International (DOH)

74

12,537

3.1 %

(-5.8) %

8

Sharjah International (SHJ)

79

12,227

3.0 %

34.9 %

9

Jakarta Soekarno-Hatta International (CGK)

34

11,849

3.0 %

(-6.1) %

10

Amman Queen Alia International (AMM)

78

11,548

2.9 %

(-5.7) %

(Others)

811

169,847

42.3 %

(-6.5) %

TOTAL

1,918

401,180

-

4.6 %

Richard Maslen

Richard Maslen has travelled across the globe to report on developments in the aviation sector as airlines and airports have continued to evolve and…