King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh said it would partially resume operations from Sunday, October 25, with Terminal 1 handling domestic flights and Terminal 2 handling international flights operated by Saudi carriers.
The airport announced the arrangement on Saturday in a notice on its official X account and asked travelers with confirmed bookings to contact their airlines to check the status of their flights before heading to the airport.
Flights at the airport had been suspended while procedures to verify the safety of its facilities were completed, following Houthi attacks targeting its surroundings, Asharq Al-Awsat reported. Qatari newspaper Al-Sharq also reported the terminal arrangements.
The notice did not say when foreign airlines would be able to resume services from the Saudi capital’s main airport.
Several Gulf carriers have suspended Riyadh flights since early October. Etihad Airways has extended its cancellation of flights between Abu Dhabi and Riyadh until November 5, and flydubai has canceled flights to several Saudi cities, including Riyadh, up to and including October 29.
The disruption has weighed on travel across the kingdom. About 34% of flights scheduled to depart from Saudi Arabia on October 19 were canceled or did not fly, according to aviation analytics firm Cirium, with Riyadh recording the highest cancellation rate at 66%, Khaleej Business Insight reported.
