INTERVIEW Saudi Airlines Cargo Company Peter Scholten


Things are happening at Saudi Arabian Airlines. At one time the carrier appeared to mainly fly passengers cargo to and from its home hubs in Saudi Arabia, but over the past few years it has been busily growing its fleet and extending its network on a global basis. Peter Scholten, vice president commercial at Saudi Airlines Cargo, is asked how the airline has grown as a network


THE ‘SLEEPING GIANT’ IS


AWAKE NOW


Recently, Saudi Arabian Airlines has been actively promoting its advantages as a network carrier connecting an increasing number of points on the globe. What has brought about this change of direction?


You could say that we were a sleeping giant, but we are certainly awake now. We are growing fast and now we are starting to get the attention we deserve. As a result of our extensive passenger and freighter network, we have become a very big air freight


carrier across many continents. Take a place like India, for example, where we are doing 85 flights a week from the Kingdom, serving nine destinations with widebody passenger flights as well as our main-deck freighter services to Mumbai and Thiruvananthapuram – we


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