Saudia advances new Egyptian link

Flights will now start on March 30, more than two weeks sooner than the proposed launch date of April 15.
Spokesman, Abdulrahman Al-Fahad, said: “Tabuk will be the sixth Saudi city to operate direct flights to Egypt after Riyadh, Jeddah, Dammam, Madinah and Abha,”
Al-Fahad said Saudia currently operates flights to three stations in Egypt, namely Cairo, Alexandria and Sharm El-Sheikh. There would be three weekly flights from Tabuk to Cairo and vice versa on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.
“The flight from Tabuk will take off at 11.15 a.m., reaching Cairo at noon local time and will depart from there at 1 p.m. to arrive in the Kingdom at 3.40 p.m.,” he said.
Saudia carried more than 1.8 million passengers between the Kingdom and Egypt in 2014.