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  • Qatar Airways to reroute some flights through Saudi airspace

    “This evening Qatar Airways began to reroute some flights through Saudi airspace with the first scheduled flight expected to be QR 1365, Doha to Johannesburg at 20.45 this evening, 7 January,” the company said.

  • Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s latest initiatives to boost space activities

    It has signed a significant number of international joint cooperation agreements related to space with Brazil, China, France, Germany, Greece, Russia, Ukraine and the United States.

  • Qatar Says Bahrain Violated Airspace as Summit Approaches

    Qatar informed the United Nations that Bahraini fighter jets violated its airspace, less than two weeks before a meeting of Gulf leaders aimed at strengthening ties in the region.

  • Saudi Arabia agrees to allow Israeli commercial planes to cross its airspace: senior Trump official

    Saudi Arabia agreed on Monday to let Israeli airliners cross its airspace en route to the United Arab Emirates after talks between Saudi officials and White House senior adviser Jared Kushner, a senior Trump administration official said. Kushner and Middle East envoys Avi Berkowitz and Brian Hook raised the issue shortly after they arrived in Saudi Arabia for talks. “We were able to reconcile the issue,” the official told Reuters.

  • Saudi Arabia plans $2 billion boost for space program by 2030

    Saudi Arabia is planning an 8 billion riyals ($2.1 billion) boost for its space programme by 2030 under an economic diversification plan that aims to attract foreign investment and create thousands of jobs for young Saudis. The Saudi Space Commission (SSC), set up by a royal decree in late 2018 to stimulate space-related research and industrial activities, has finalised a plan for the government, expected to be revealed later this year, under which the sector's budget would receive an initial boost of 2 billion riyals.

  • Aerospace industry records worst quarter as Covid halts sales

    Aircraft manufacturers received only 13 orders in July and August, according to the aerospace and defence lobby group ADS. No orders were placed in September. That compares with 152 in the same period in 2019.

  • Saudi Arabia’s public spaces dotted with pink for Breast Cancer Awareness Month

    The Zahra Breast Cancer Association is one of Saudi Arabia’s leading organizations dedicated to raising awareness about the disease. It has been supporting cancer patients and survivors and normalizing conversations about breast cancer among the community, with a renewed emphasis during October which is Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

  • Kushner says Saudi Arabia, Bahrain to allow all Israeli flights to use airspace

    “They agreed to open their airspace not just to flights from Israel to the United Arab Emirates and back, but to all eastward travel,” Kushner said. “So when people make requests, they’ll grant those requests. That will save people a lot of time. That knocks down a barrier that’s been up for 72 years.”

  • Bahrain to allow Israel flights to UAE over its airspace

    The state-run Bahrain News Agency made the announcement without directly naming Israel, just as Saudi Arabia had. However, the announcement late Thursday came just days after Saudi Arabia allowed the first direct Israeli commercial passenger flight to use its airspace to reach the UAE. The statement makes no mention of the kingdom’s rival, Iran, nor Qatar, which Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and the UAE are currently boycotting.

  • Saudi Arabia Opens Airspace to Israeli Flights for First Time

    Saudi Arabia announced Wednesday that it would allow any flights going to and from the United Arab Emirates to fly over its territory, a move that would give Israel access to some of the kingdom’s airspace for the first time. The announcement, made at the request of the United Arab Emirates, came days after the first direct flight from Israel to the emirates — a symbolic move as the two nations begin normalizing relations.