SaudiGulf Airlines secures AOC

SaudiGulf has already received three out of four Airbus A320s and plans to take 16 Bombardier CSeries aircraft from 2017, according to Flightglobal.
The airline was one of two new carriers to have been awarded a licence for domestic flights in Saudi three years ago – the other was Al Maha, a subsidiary of Qatar Airways .
The Al Maha A320s have been operating on behalf of Qatar Airways on short-haul flights around the Gulf for the Doha airline. There are doubts about whether the appetite for Saudi Arabian operations remains for Qatar after many delays in the award of an AOC.
Another Saudi airline, Nesma, has also recently begun operations in the Kingdom, to take on the national carrier Saudia and the budget airline FlyNas.
Saudi Gulf will operate as a full-service carrier, offering first and economy class on domestic routes.According to ch-aviation it will operate multiple daily flights between Dammam, Jeddah and Riyadh initially before expanding its network to include Abha, Madinah, Gassim and Tabuk. International flights have also been touted though this is contingent on GACA's consent.

GACA said the start-up will be conferred its documentation at a ceremony to be held on June 22.