After reopening airspace, land, and sea borders between Qatar and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), the first Qatar Airways flight QR 1164 from Doha to Riyadh has taken off today at 2:05 pm from Hamad International Airport (HIA).

#QatarAirways resumes services to King Khalid International Airport with a daily flight to #Riyadh. pic.twitter.com/f34fvV0QVa

— Qatar Airways (@qatarairways) January 11, 2021

Boeing 787-8 took off to Riyadh, King Khaled International Airport (KSA).

Qatar Airways will also start flights to Jeddah on Thursday, January 14, 2021, and Dammam on Saturday, January 16, 2021.

The airline will operate daily flights to Riyadh and Dammam, and four weekly flights to Jeddah.

All flights to KSA will be operated exclusively by widebody aircraft including the Boeing 777-300, Boeing 787-8, and Airbus A350.

Passengers in KSA will have the ability to connect to the largest network in the region with over 800 weekly frequencies to more than 110 destinations, more than any airline in the Middle East.

Earlier, in a tweet, the airline said, “Qatar Airways began to reroute some flights through Saudi airspace with the first scheduled flight expected to be QR 1365, Doha to Johannesburg at 20.45 this evening, 7 January.”

This was the first scheduled Qatar Airways flight to fly over the Saudi airspace since the blockade went into effect in mid-2017.

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