Has Saudia started using B744 to LHE ?

[AbdulAziz]

Asslam u alikum

I want to confirm that is SV started using B747-400 on RUH/JED - LHE flights as their website shows ?

A.Aziz

[Abbas Ali]

I saw Saudi Arabian Boeing 747-400 over Lahore some months ago and thought it's one-off flight with this aircraft type.

Usually Boeing 747-300 is used by Saudi Arabian for Lahore flights.

Btw, any information when Boeing 747-300 will be phased out from Saudi Arabian's fleet?

Abbas

[AbdulAziz]

Abbas bhai thanks for ur post

Actually they already started to phase out their B743 since arrival of brand new B777-300ER s.

also they changed AC type on the site thats why I want to confirm if they really started B744 or still B743 operating for LHE?

A.Aziz

[offspring]

A couple of weeks back I saw a Saudi 747-400 at Islamabad airport.

[AbdulAziz]

[AbdulAziz]

A couple of weeks back I saw a Saudi 747-400 at Islamabad airport.

SV usually use B777-200 ER for ISB but as shown on their website they changed and now operating B747-400.

A.Aziz

[imran khan07]

one of my friend fly from riyadh to lahore last week but that was 743 not 744 .

[umar744]

Hi salam I saw HZ-AIW Boeing 747-468 in Lahore about 10 years ago in 2002 when I flew AP-BFY B743 from Lahore to LHR but my friend Captain PIA pilot saw Saudi 744 many times in LHE, ISB, KHI from 2002 to today 2012. In 1990 I saw Air France B744 in Karachi but finished passenger in 1993 also I saw Air France B744 landed in Lahore diverted from KHI due to bad fog weather in KHI when my flight PK782 from LHR to KHI diverted to LHE in December 1992 and Captain PIA 747 asked LHE PIA traffic staff allowed me got off aircraft in Lahore because my parent's home in Lahore and I do not need fly to KHI.

[PK777]

Back in the early 2000s it was the Boeing 747-100/200.

Recently I have seen mainly Boeing 747-300.

[faisal-777]

Flightstats now showing only one Saudi flight departing per day and the aircraft is 74E.

[Abbas Ali]

Today a Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 747-400 operated flight SV-729 from Lahore to Jeddah.

Abbas

[AbdulAziz]

Thanks Abbas bhai for information ... now one remaining question is it SV owned aircraft with reg.HZ or rented planes ??

A.Aziz

[Abbas Ali]

^ Your're welcome Abdul Aziz.

Airplanes flying flight SV-729 in recent days are mostly Boeing 747-400s of Air Atlanta Icelandic on lease to Saudi Arabian, according to information on http://www.flightradar24.com/.

Saudi Arabian's own Boeing 747-300 aircraft also have operated flight SV-729 on some days in the month of March.

SV729 was flown on 2012-04-06 by TF-AMS (B744)
SV729 was flown on 2012-04-02 by TF-AAD (B744)
SV729 was flown on 2012-04-01 by TF-AMT (B744)
SV729 was flown on 2012-03-31 by TF-AAD (B744)
SV729 was flown on 2012-03-30 by TF-AMT (B744)
SV729 was flown on 2012-03-26 by TF-AMS (B744)
SV729 was flown on 2012-03-23 by HZ-AIK (B743)
SV729 was flown on 2012-03-19 by HZ-AIN (B743)
SV729 was flown on 2012-03-16 by HZ-AIK (B743)
SV729 was flown on 2012-03-09 by TF-AMZ (B744)
Info Source: http://data.flight24.com/flights/sv729

Abbas

[deadly_scorpion]

Jeddah – Lahore NONSTOP service increases from 3 to 4 weekly, 747 operating (1 weekly nonstop in S11)

[Abbas Ali]

On April 7, flight SV-729 from Lahore to Jeddah was operated by Air Atlanta Icelandic Boeing 747-400 (registration TF-AMT) on lease to Saudi Arabian Airlines.

Here's March 24, 2012, photo of TF-AMT in full livery of Saudi Arabian.

Click here to see large photo.

Abbas