{"id":395464,"date":"2026-03-29T00:00:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T14:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/saudia-axes-london-heathrow-dammam-route\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T00:00:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T14:00:18","slug":"end-of-an-era-major-airline-abruptly-axes-london-heathrow-long-haul-route","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=395464","title":{"rendered":"End Of An Era: Major Airline Abruptly Axes London Heathrow Long-Haul Route"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As quickly as its coverage on the route began, Saudia is set to suspend its operations on the route from<span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"259797\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/london-heathrow-airport\/\"  >London Heathrow Airport<\/a><\/span> (LHR) to King Fahd International Airport (DMM) in the Saudi Arabian city of Dammam. The latter facility is known for <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/worlds-10-largest-airports-operating\/\" >consistently ranking among the largest airports in the world by size<\/a>, but this scale does not appear to have converted into meaningful load factors, with the route&#8217;s flights typically only half full.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The corridor had only been served (in its most recent iteration) since November.<\/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":[396,476,1022,988,1708,15477,701],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-395464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-london-heathrow-airport","category-saudi-arabia","category-saudia","category-sf-routes-analysis","category-united-kingdom"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395464","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=395464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":395465,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395464\/revisions\/395465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=395464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=395464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=395464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}