Saudi Arabia's first flight to Guangzhou officially took off from Jeddah, capital of Saudi Arabia on March 27, according to Nanfang Daily report. The flight, with a stopover in Riyadh, will shorten the journey between Guangzhou and Saudi Arabia to ten hours and the cheapest price in the trial operation period will be 1000 RMB.
The line has six flights per week and each flight has 24 first class, 38 business class and 170 economic class seats.
Flights to Guangzhou now depart Jeddah at 18:35pm (local time) with a stopover in Riyadh and arrive in Guangzhou at 11:00 am (Beijing time) every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, while the return flights leave Guangzhou at 12:45 am (Beijing time) and arrive in Jeddah at 19:45 pm (local time) every Wednesday, Friday and Sunday.
(By Miranda)