JEDDAH
From the DFOs update:
CX to launch new service to JEDDAH
It was announced this week that Jeddah, the second major commercial city in Saudi Arabia, will become our 46th online passenger destination wef 25th October 2009. We will operate HKG-DXB-JED v.v. with an Airbus A330-300 aircraft four times weekly. The schedule will mean that the aircraft is on the ground in JED for approximately 6 hours – not quite long enough for crew to clear customs and get to a hotel down town for the required split-duty rest. The idea, at this stage, therefore, is for crew to take rest on the aircraft and return to DXB the same day. This is not ideal but perhaps preferable to two or three night stays in JED and, with capacity being cut to many other destinations in the CX system, we need to do whatever is necessary to take advantage of such commercial opportunities. The view is that JED is going to be a strong market for front-end travel and cargo.
So it would have to be a shuttle out of DXB?
Last edited by arse; 25th Jul 2009 at 02:16.