King Salman Airport, which merges with the present Riyadh airport (King Khalid Airport), can be dwelling to the brand new state-owned Saudi Arabian airline RIA. It should compete with Emirates and Qatar Airways, amongst others, and switch Riyadh into a significant worldwide aviation hub, akin to Dubai.
The present nationwide airline, Saudia, may also live on and can even be expanded, however with Jeddah as its dwelling base. For instance, Saudi Arabia will quickly have two main airways.
Though the aviation sector is ready to develop enormously, the nation says it finds sustainability essential. Subsequently, the electrical energy for King Salman Airport will come from renewable sources.
The billion-dollar investments are a part of plans to make the Saudi economic system much less depending on oil revenues. The brand new airport should immediately and not directly present work for at the least 103,000 individuals.
Watch a brief video beneath with impressions of King Salman Airport:
