{"id":241526,"date":"2025-06-25T15:00:16","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T05:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/where-riyadh-air-new-airbus-a350s-fly\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T15:00:16","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T05:00:16","slug":"where-will-riyadh-airs-new-airbus-a350s-fly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=241526","title":{"rendered":"Where Will Riyadh Air&#8217;s New Airbus A350s Fly?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"205737\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/saudi-arabia\/\"  >Saudi Arabia<\/a><\/span> is soon to become a rare example of a country with two flag carriers, as <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2037852\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/saudia-celebrates-saudi-arabia-host-2034-fifa-world-cup-surprises-onbard\/\" >Saudi Arabia&#8217;s existing Saudia airline<\/a><\/span> is to be joined by Riyadh Air, which is expected to conduct its first flights later in 2025. The appearance of a new flag carrier has pushed Saudia to revert to its old Saudi Arabia-themed livery, apparently in an effort to assert its position as the Kingdom&#8217;s original flag carrier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Riyadh Air has just ordered 50 new Airbus A350-1000s, which will have the range to serve the most distant long-haul destinations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,476,989,5239,988],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-riyadh-air","category-route","category-saudi-arabia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=241526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241527,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241526\/revisions\/241527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=241526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=241526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=241526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}