Saudia B777 trip report RUH-JED

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My trip report from Riyadh to Jeddah on 6-6-2013

Origin: Riyadh- King Khalid Int'l Airport - OERK
Destination: Jeddah - King Abdul Aziz Int'l Airport - OEJN
Date: 06 June 2013
Aircraft: B777-268H
Reg. : HZ-AKL
Command: Capt. Shaker Al-Ghamdi

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HZ-AKL at gate 36 at RUH getting ready for departure to JED

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HZ-AEH coming into gate after arrival

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Gate and ground services getting ready to serve HZ-AEH

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AEH getting refueling for its nexct rotation

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Big brother B777 coming in after arrival from JED

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SV B777 just arrived at RUH

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HZ-AKL after push back from gate and with flaps 10

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Cairo Air A320 passing us for active rwy 33R for departure

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This small baby AEH decided to taxi before big brother so it delayed our taxi 3 to 4 min

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Terminal view at RUH 15:15 local time

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SV A320 rolling on 33R for dep.

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AKL at almost at beginning or 33R

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AEH No. for dep.

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AKL cleared for TO rwy 33R No.2

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SV A320 No.3 in dep. que

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Fly Dubai B737-800 No.4

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SV A320 witing its turn after our dep.

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AKL rotating 33R

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RUH airport view

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International airlines terminal at RUH

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B777 at remaote bay

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Light cargo activity today at cargo terminal

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Left turn to Jed with immediate flaps up

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AKL abeam rwy 15R at RUH

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starting our descend at JED

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Full speed breaks deployed

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View of Jeddah city after establish ILS 34R

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New JED airport construction site

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Seconds b4 smooth touch down rwy 34R at JED

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New ATC at JED

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Crossing on thresh hold of re-Newly constructed rwy 16C/34C

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Taxing

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Finally at parking bay safely Al-Hamdulilah

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SV A330 HZ-APH at JED with Cargo MD-11 HZ-AND

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Phase out B743s and B741 HZ-AID at JED :(

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HZ-AEJ fin view

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Under wing view

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Hope u enjoyed them ... comments appreciated.

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Thanks for posting the great shots. Have thoroughly enjoyed the photographs. Look forward to more in the future. =D>
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Thank u Waqar for ur reply .. appreciated.

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nice shots for the domestic flight and thats too on T7 :) how is the pax load on such flight between 2 big cities?
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Thanks Raihans bhai for ur comments ... Pax load between RUH-JED usually 90 to 100 % full but on this flight it was almost 90%.

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thank you AbdulAziz for the info, so deploying 777 on such route is feasible for SV. I think before 777, this route was served by B743s which SV retired after getting 777 from Boeing.
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Raihan bhai this route is the only profitable in KSA all airlines such NAS AIR and previously SAMA AIR tried to capture this route till now NAS AIR has a flight every 2h 30 min and SV has hourly a flight between these cities.
SV using all types of AC on this route from B747-400 , B777 , A330 , A321 & A320s and yes its feasible but for ur info. that even a flight is full I heard all local flights of SV are in lose bcz low prices of tkts on economy class .. rate between RUH-JED is 280 SR, if u know Qaisumah airport to JED is 410, and JED-Dammam 390 SR.

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thank you for the information, lets see when Gulf Air & Qatar Airways (and i think a total of 3 operators were granted permission) starts their flights within Saudia as domestic operators, hope you get good competitive fares :)
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I think only QR will come GF is quite till now I am thinking there are no planes with GF how they will operate in KSA... but I don't think their will be competitive prices as I told u they think its very low fares ... NAS AIR when started their price sealing was SV price then they could not compete no their prices are not controlled RUH-JED most of times their prices goes to 550 till 600 SR ??!!
Now they are suspending all their operation in PAK

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Nice shots brother
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