RUH-DXB Weekend availability
 

Hi all

Got some work coming up in Riyadh and want to fly back most weekends to DXB. Taking the latest flight back Thursday and returning Sat night / early Sunday to be back in the office in Y.

When I search I get prices but no availability. Can every Thursday - Sat/Sun really be sold out? Seems peculiar.

As Gold I guess I can only get flights through the contact centre using the tier privileges? Seems a faff.

when are you looking - it’s eid soon and flights will be restricted

Get the same every weekend now until start of December so it’s not just Eid. Weds seem fine, Thursday no.

It believe it's a temporary problem with the booking system. I'm seeing all flights zeroed out past July 9th for whatever reason. I've noticed that this sometimes this happens when they add flights or change the flight numbers of the Saudi flights from the usual '8xx' series to the '28xx' series.

I see that they've just added an additional RUH frequency (EK2819/2820) effective July 3, and a second DMM frequency on most days which has likely caused the issue.

I've seen it before, and usually they figure out the issue in about a day or so. A perhaps useful datapoint I've noticed is that the '8xx' series flights will be consolidated into a single/double '2xxx' series flight about two weeks in advance with slightly different dep/arr timings. So keep in mind that the flight timing could change if you're booking a '8xx' series flight.

This is brilliant thank you! I shall keep trying the site and see if it comes out. Maybe the A380 is coming back to this route :p

Bad news, unfortunately effective today Saudi flights are cancelled until further notice. This was a directive from the Saudi authorities.