{"id":562031,"date":"2023-03-13T10:57:20","date_gmt":"2023-03-13T05:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=562031"},"modified":"2023-03-13T12:13:10","modified_gmt":"2023-03-13T06:43:10","slug":"saudi-unveils-new-airline-to-fuel-aviation-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/saudi-unveils-new-airline-to-fuel-aviation-boom\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi unveils new airline to fuel aviation boom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabia announced Sunday the creation of a new national airline, part of a plan to turn Riyadh into a global aviation hub rivalling regional leaders like Dubai and Doha.<\/p>\n<p>Riyadh Air &#8220;aims to launch flights to more than 100 destinations around the world by 2030,&#8221; the official Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported.<\/p>\n<p>Tony Douglas, former head of Abu Dhabi-based Etihad Airways, has been appointed CEO, SPA said.<\/p>\n<p>The Gulf kingdom is pursuing ambitious aviation goals as part of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman&#8217;s wide-ranging &#8220;Vision 2030&#8221; reform agenda, including more than tripling annual traffic to 330 million passengers by the end of the decade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabia announced Sunday the creation of a new national airline, part of a plan to turn Riyadh into a global aviation hub rivalling regional leaders like Dubai and Doha. Riyadh Air &#8220;aims to launch flights to more than 100 destinations around the world by 2030,&#8221; the official Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported. Tony Douglas, former head of Abu Dhabi-based Etihad Airways, has been appointed CEO, SPA said. The Gulf kingdom is pursuing ambitious aviation goals as part of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman&#8217;s wide-ranging &#8220;Vision 2030&#8221; reform agenda, including more than tripling annual traffic to 330 million passengers by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[176,146,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-562031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=562031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}