{"id":248863,"date":"2025-07-09T23:20:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T13:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/london-gets-nonstop-flights-to-record-5th-saudi-arabian-city-with-the-latest-addition\/"},"modified":"2025-07-09T23:20:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T13:20:16","slug":"london-gets-nonstop-flights-to-record-5th-saudi-arabian-city-with-the-latest-addition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=248863","title":{"rendered":"London Gets Nonstop Flights To Record 5th Saudi Arabian City With The Latest Addition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"191650\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/london\/\"  >London<\/a><\/span> will have flights to the Saudi Arabian city of <strong>Dammam<\/strong>. The city was last served by British Airways, <a href=\"https:\/\/mediacentre.britishairways.com\/pressrelease\/details\/10849\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" >which introduced services from London Heathrow via Bahrain<\/a>. The pandemic meant it only existed for a few months. <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20121105203112\/http:\/\/www.flightglobal.com\/pdfarchive\/view\/1998\/1998%20-%200583.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" >BA flew to the old Dhahran International Airport until the 1990s<\/a>. Saudia had a weekly nonstop flight from Dammam to Heathrow between 2007 and 2010, and a one-stop service via Riyadh between 2005 and 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dammam, Jeddah, Medina, Neom Bay, and Riyadh will all have nonstop service from the UK capital.<\/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":[396,476,17376,407,759,1022,406,988,1708,15477],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-248863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-dammam-airport","category-flights","category-london","category-london-heathrow-airport","category-routes","category-saudi-arabia","category-saudia","category-sf-routes-analysis"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248863","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=248863"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":248902,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248863\/revisions\/248902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=248863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=248863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=248863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}