Saudia (SV, Jeddah International) has tentatively set its last scheduled B747 flight for the second quarter of the year Airline Route has reported.
The Saudi carrier, which operates four in-house B747-400s alongside ten others wet-leased from Air Atlanta Icelandic (CC, Reykjavik Keflavik), Eaglexpress Air Charter (Kuala Lumpur International), and Wamos Air (EB, Madrid Barajas), has named Riyadh-Islamabad International as the type's last scheduled service on April 1, 2016.
Once retired from scheduled service, the aircraft will likely be used for Hajj charter operations. Last year, CEO Abdulmohsen Jonaid said Saudia was considering the A380-800, the B777 or a similar twin engined widebody to replace the B747 fleet which currently used on flights to Jeddah International and Dammam locally as well as to Algeria, Morocco, Egypt, Nigeria, Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Turkey, and Indonesia internationally.
