Saudi Arabia's Cluster2 Airports company, which operates 22 domestic and international airports in the Kingdom, announced that it received about 9.4 million passengers in the first half of 2025, an increase of 10.4% compared with the same period of 2024.
A post on the company's LinkedIn account explained that passengers were distributed between 7.72 million on domestic flights, 1.60 million on international flights and 96,400 on private flights.
Flight Traffic
The cluster's airports recorded about 80,200 flights in the first half, up 7% year on year, including 58,200 domestic flights, 13,800 international flights and 8,200 private flights.
Air Cargo
Total air cargo reached 730,000 kg, achieving growth of 43.4% compared with the same period of 2024.
Destination Network
New routes: Taif–Alexandria, Qassim–London Gatwick, Najran–Jakarta, Taif–Doha.
Seasonal flights: Tabuk, Qassim, Abha, Al Baha, Cairo, Dammam, Riyadh, Jeddah, Sarajevo, Trabzon, and Rize-Artvin.
Charter flights: Tehran, Ahvaz, Khorramabad, Baghdad, and selected cities to serve pilgrims.
Key Achievements of the First Half
Arar International Airport received 59,449 passengers on 195 flights, 1,276 buses were operated to transport pilgrims, and 62 charter flights were organized at Taif Airport.
Prince Naif bin Abdulaziz International Airport in Qassim received 9 cargo aircraft carrying a total of 109,130 kg.
The company's Human Resources Department won the HRSE KSA Awards 2025 for Best Talent Development Strategy.
King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz International Airport in Jazan received the Excellence in Aviation Security Quality Award.
Najran International Airport won the Airports Council International (ACI) award for Best Airport in the Middle East in the under-2-million-passengers category for 2024.
Successful implementation of the operating plan for the 1446 AH Hajj season through comprehensive round-the-clock readiness.
All of the cluster's airports obtained the environmental operating permit from the National Center for Environmental Compliance, with the Kingdom ranked second in Asia and first in the Middle East in the number of environmentally accredited airports.
To view the post on the LinkedIn account of Cluster2 Airports, click here.
