What’s New

Saudia Airlines received two A319 aircraft that were wet-leased from Czech Airlines under an ACMI contract (aircraft, crew, maintenance and insurance) in order to support its operations and provide additional capacity to its domestic network to meet the increasing demand of this segment that resembles nearly 70% of Saudia operations, which carried more than 15 million guests on board 120 thousand scheduled flights operated on the domestic sector in 2014.
The agreement between SkyTeam members, Saudia Airlines and Czech Airlines, provides a comprehensive coverage on the needs required to operate the aircraft. Both aircraft met the specifications and standards of FAA and EASA and were granted operational licenses by GACA; the aircraft joined Saudia fleet and were put into service early November.
Both aircraft are modern (manufactured in 2009 and 2010) and have a capacity of 135 seats in economy class configuration, which will add more than 43,200 monthly seats on domestic flights, which represent 3% of the monthly scheduled flights when operating more than 320 monthly flights.