INTERNATIONAL 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 INTERNATIONAL AIR SERVICES IN SAUDI ARABIA (non-stop departures)

Year

Departures

% Change

Available Seats

% Change

1982

24,457

1.5 %

5,092,169

4.8 %

1983

25,294

3.4 %

5,513,857

8.3 %

1984

27,365

8.2 %

6,123,447

11.1 %

1985

27,829

1.7 %

6,450,607

5.3 %

1986

26,463

(-4.9) %

6,231,119

(-3.4) %

1987

25,314

(-4.3) %

6,047,450

(-2.9) %

1988

25,575

1.0 %

6,195,304

2.4 %

1989

24,941

(-2.5) %

5,957,422

(-3.8) %

1990

24,840

(-0.4) %

5,912,570

(-0.8) %

1991

20,102

(-19.1) %

4,709,439

(-20.3) %

1992

21,806

8.5 %

5,246,401

11.4 %

1993

23,722

8.8 %

5,683,436

8.3 %

1994

25,241

6.4 %

6,053,719

6.5 %

1995

25,856

2.4 %

6,236,698

3.0 %

1996

25,965

0.4 %

6,292,952

0.9 %

1997

26,008

0.2 %

6,253,321

(-0.6) %

1998

26,838

3.2 %

6,549,380

4.7 %

1999

28,406

5.8 %

6,809,783

4.0 %

2000

28,897

1.7 %

6,917,664

1.6 %

2001

28,323

(-2.0) %

6,786,597

(-1.9) %

2002

26,315

(-7.1) %

6,325,342

(-6.8) %

2003

27,214

3.4 %

6,681,345

5.6 %

2004

30,366

11.6 %

7,382,377

10.5 %

2005

30,962

2.0 %

7,361,286

(-0.3) %

2006

33,822

9.2 %

7,979,490

8.4 %

2007

40,228

18.9 %

9,354,560

17.2 %

2008

46,972

16.8 %

10,085,723

7.8 %

2009

54,598

16.2 %

11,689,196

15.9 %

2010

65,075

19.2 %

14,045,813

20.2 %

2011

80,849

24.2 %

17,367,598

23.6 %

2012

89,590

10.8 %

18,425,110

6.1 %

Richard Maslen

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