Qatar Airways restarts some flights through Saudi’s airspace

  • Date: 08-Jan-2021
  • Source: Gulf Insider
  • Sector:Transport
  • Country:Qatar
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Qatar Airways restarts some flights through Saudi’s airspace

Qatar Airways will began rerouting some of its flights through Saudi airspace starting from Thursday evening, it said on Twitter.“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.Saudi Arabia announced the breakthrough in ending a dispute at a summit on Tuesday, with its foreign minister saying Riyadh and its allies would restore all ties with Doha severed in mid-2017.The reopening of the borders came on the eve of the 41st GCC Summit which was held in Saudi Arabia's AlUla city.Comments Read Next21 hours agoQatar to suspend legal cases filed against UAE22 hours agoUAE-Qatar: Trade, transport could resume within a week2 days agoEgypt to open airspace to Qatar3 days agoSaudi Arabia to reopen airspace, land border to Qatar, says KuwaitNovember 18, 2020Australian women subjected to invasive examinations at Doha airport say Qatar has not contacted themOctober 30, 2020Qatar airport officials behind invasive exams referred to prosecutorsOctober 28, 2020Women on 10 flights from Qatar invasively examined: AustraliaOctober 27, 2020Australia protests strip exam of women passengers by Qatar airportJuly 12, 2020Qatar Airways Makes Virus Test Mandatory for