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Jet Airways Begins Riyadh Service
Jet Airways begins its new Mumbai to Riyadh flight service on 6 August 2009. The service will operate four times a week – Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays.
The new service is Jet Airway’s eighth destination in the Gulf and second in Saudi Arabia. Currently they have a daily Mumbai-Jeddah service. Jet Airways provides flight service to Bahrain, Kuwait, Doha, Dubai, and Abu Dhabi, to numerous cities in India, with international and domestic connections.
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