DOMESTIC SKIES: 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.

SCHEDULED DOMESTIC AIR SERVICES IN SAUDI ARABIA (non-stop departures)

Year

Departures

% Change

Available Seats

% Change

1982

75,971

(-3.3) %

10,399,196

(-4.2) %

1983

77,337

1.8 %

10,816,716

4.0 %

1984

77,665

0.4 %

11,693,700

8.1 %

1985

78,556

1.1 %

13,299,578

13.7 %

1986

72,768

(-7.4) %

12,070,010

(-9.2) %

1987

69,199

(-4.9) %

12,280,263

1.7 %

1988

70,085

1.3 %

12,171,939

(-0.9) %

1989

65,930

(-5.9) %

11,345,858

(-6.8) %

1990

67,576

2.5 %

11,774,869

3.8 %

1991

68,223

1.0 %

11,649,998

(-1.1) %

1992

69,410

1.7 %

11,772,274

1.0 %

1993

71,320

2.8 %

12,523,304

6.4 %

1994

71,996

0.9 %

12,656,055

1.1 %

1995

68,390

(-5.0) %

11,837,558

(-6.5) %

1996

69,658

1.9 %

11,826,119

(-0.1) %

1997

69,541

(-0.2) %

11,384,187

(-3.7) %

1998

68,601

(-1.4) %

11,500,161

1.0 %

1999

75,002

9.3 %

12,929,926

12.4 %

2000

77,162

2.9 %

13,219,788

2.2 %

2001

76,502

(-0.9) %

13,389,615

1.3 %

2002

75,423

(-1.4) %

13,483,496

0.7 %

2003

75,686

0.3 %

14,015,259

3.9 %

2004

77,222

2.0 %

14,467,328

3.2 %

2005

76,619

(-0.8) %

14,152,739

(-2.2) %

2006

88,679

15.7 %

14,143,840

(-0.1) %

2007

109,491

23.5 %

14,646,491

3.6 %

2008

92,514

(-15.5) %

11,854,472

(-19.1) %

2009

105,874

14.4 %

13,500,259

13.9 %

2010

110,806

4.7 %

14,571,755

7.9 %

2011

111,996

1.1 %

14,894,722

2.2 %

2012

121,747

8.7 %

16,038,941

7.7 %

Richard Maslen

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