Starting from Wednesday, December 5, 2018, Saudia Airlines will operate direct and scheduled flights to Calicut, India, from Riyadh (3 flights per week) and Jeddah (4 flights) with a daily flight rate operated by an Airbus A330-300 (298) seats, 36 business class seats and 262 hospitality seats.
The resumption comes after a three-year stop due to the modernization and development of the Kerala city airport on the southern coast of India and will be the ninth destination of Saudia in India along with Kochi, Hyderabad, Delhi, Bangalore, Lucknow, Mumbai , Chennai, Travendrum, and the fourth to which the airline starts direct and regular flights during this year after each of Arbil (Iraq), Surabaya and Muksar (Indonesia).
The first flight (SV746) will leave King Abdulaziz International Airport in Jeddah on Wednesday 5 December at 3:15 am local time, and the flight will take five hours and 25 minutes to arrive at Kalikot at 11:10 am local time The return flight (SV747) departs Calicut airport at 13:10 hours, and it takes six hours to arrive at Jeddah at 16:40 pm.
The operation of direct daily flights between Riyadh and Jeddah with Calicut, one of the most important cities of India, serves multiple segments of passengers and for different purposes such as pilgrims, businessmen and tourists as well as the Indian community working in the Kingdom and travelers to other destinations, while providing the appropriate options for the timing to correspond with Saudia flights to domestic stations as well as international destinations in four continents around the world, or the flights of SkyTeam's international partners, which includes twenty airlines around the world and their partners in the common code.
Saudia’s performance report last October showed a total of 647 flights between Saudi Arabia and India with 142,000 passengers, (10%) increase compared to the same month last year, and the operation of (7276) flights from the beginning of the year 2018 until the end of October transporting around (1.5) million guests.
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