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SAA passengers up 4.1m in Q1

30 May 2011

(MENAFN) Khalid Al Mulhem, head of the Saudi Arabian Airlines, reported that passengers in the first quarter went up to 4.5 million as the airline had 4.1 million more passengers this year than the same quarter a year ago, reported Gulf News.

Al Mulhem also said that 36,289 flights carried passengers in the first quarter, compared to last year’s first quarter 37,342 flights.

The director general added that the passengers of domestic flights rose 8.1 percent in the quarter to 2,758,578.

It is worth noting that Saudi Arabian Airlines is the second largest Arab carrier in terms of passengers carried and fleet size after UAE-based Emirates airline.

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