Riyadh, the capital city of Saudi Arabia, earmarks SpiceJet’s 10th international destination and the fourth station in the Middle Eastern market. The flights to Dhaka and Jeddah are effective from the last week of July while the flight to Riyadh will begin on August 15, 2019.
SpiceJet will service Mumbai-Riyadh-Mumbai, Mumbai-Dhaka-Mumbai, Delhi-Dhaka-Delhi and Delhi-Jeddah-Delhi with daily non-stop flights. The airline will deploy 168-seater Boeing 737-800 aircraft on all the routes.
Ajay Singh, Chairman and MD, SpiceJet said, "We are delighted to add Riyadh as our tenth international destination and add more flights to Jeddah and Dhaka thus providing our passengers with multiple flight options. SpiceJet is the only Indian budget airline to operate to Saudi Arabia and our new flights to Riyadh and Jeddah should greatly benefit the thousands of pilgrims travelling from India."
Besides Riyadh, SpiceJet also operates flights to Jeddah, Dubai. UAE and Muscat, Oman in the gulf region.
The first Indian LCC to connect Jeddah with Hyderabad and Kozhikode, the airline also began a Mumbai-Jeddah route from July 5, 2019. SpiceJet also connects Dhaka and Kolkata with twice-daily flights.
Details:
SpiceJet is celebrating the launch by announcing all-inclusive promotional fares starting at INR14,227 on Mumbai-Riyadh, INR12,263 on Riyadh-Mumbai, INR10,677 on Mumbai-Dhaka, INR10,732 on Dhaka-Mumbai, INR9,276 on Delhi-Dhaka, INR10,432 on Dhaka-Delhi, INR16,290 on Delhi-Jeddah and INR15,263 on the Jeddah-Delhi routes.
Bookings are now open online, through SpiceJet’s mobile app and via online travel portals and travel agents.
Flight schedule:
| Flight# | From | To | Departs | Arrives | Starts | Frequency |
|---|
| SG 63 | Mumbai | Dhaka | 8:55 am | 12:20 pm | 25-Jul-19 | Daily |
| SG 64 | Dhaka | Mumbai | 1:20 pm | 4:15 pm | 25-Jul-19 | Daily |
| SG 19 | Mumbai | Riyadh | 9:10 pm | 11:10 pm | 15-Aug-19 | Daily |
| SG 20 | Riyadh | Mumbai | 12:10 am | 7:10 am | 16-Aug-19 | Daily |
| SG 39 | Delhi | Dhaka | 7:40 am | 10:30 am | 31-Jul-19 | Daily |
| SG 40 | Dhaka | Delhi | 11:30 am | 1:30 pm | 31-Jul-19 | Daily |
| SG 65 | Delhi | Jeddah | 1:45 pm | 5:00 pm | 31-Jul-19 | Daily |
| SG 66 | Jeddah | Delhi | 5:50 pm | 1:40 am | 31-Jul-19 | Daily |
*All timings as per local standard times