RIYADH: Saudia, the Kingdom’s national airline from Wednesday (Sept 1) increase the capacity on domestic flights by 52 per cent, following the Saudi aviation authority’s decision to allow flights to use full seating capacity for domestic flights, the company said on Thursday.

The change will give Saudia a weekly capacity of more than 372,000 seats every week, up from the 245,000 capacity that it had with social distancing measures in place on its flights.

Saudia has been awarded the Diamond Classification by APEX, the international airline association, making it among the 10 safest airlines in the world, the company said.