{"id":86863,"date":"2026-08-15T14:07:41","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T14:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thediplomat.com.pk\/?p=86863"},"modified":"2026-08-15T14:11:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T14:11:29","slug":"riyadh-airs-first-flight-arrives-in-pakistan-strengthening-saudi-pakistan-connectivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thediplomat.com.pk\/index.php\/2026\/08\/15\/riyadh-airs-first-flight-arrives-in-pakistan-strengthening-saudi-pakistan-connectivity\/","title":{"rendered":"Riyadh Air\u2019s first flight arrives in Pakistan, strengthening Saudi-Pakistan connectivity"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Saudi Press Attach\u00e9 Dr. Saif Nasser Almashali says new air link marks another step in strengthening bilateral relations<\/em><\/h6>\n<p>ISLAMABAD: Saudi Press Attach\u00e9 Dr. Saif Nasser Almashali on Saturday said that Riyadh Air\u2019s first flight from Riyadh had arrived at Islamabad International Airport on Friday, marking the start of the airline\u2019s flights to Pakistan and further strengthening air connectivity between the two countries.<\/p>\n<p>The arrival was welcomed in the presence of Ambassador of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Nawaf bin Said Al-Malki, Director General Protocol Abdulaziz Al-Ghamdi and Commercial Attach\u00e9 Naif Al-Harbi, alongside a number of Pakistani officials from the Ministry of Defence and the relevant aviation and airport authorities.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Riyadh Air\u2019s first flight arrives in Pakistan, strengthening Saudi-Pakistan connectivity\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2gitNuEwGIk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cA new step that further strengthens Saudi-Pakistani relations,\u201d Dr. Saif Nasser Almashali said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Press Attach\u00e9 Dr. Saif Nasser Almashali says new air link marks another step in strengthening bilateral relations ISLAMABAD: Saudi Press Attach\u00e9 Dr. Saif Nasser Almashali on Saturday said that Riyadh Air\u2019s first flight from Riyadh had arrived at Islamabad International Airport on Friday, marking the start of the airline\u2019s flights to Pakistan and further [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":86864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-diplomacy","category-middle-east"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thediplomat.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thediplomat.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thediplomat.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thediplomat.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thediplomat.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86863"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thediplomat.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86867,"href":"https:\/\/thediplomat.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86863\/revisions\/86867"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thediplomat.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thediplomat.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thediplomat.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thediplomat.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}