Qatar Airways announces return of daily flights from Doha to Riyadh and Dammam

The two routes are scheduled to resume after more than a month of disruption, with further frequency increases planned later in November.Qatar Airways has announced that daily flights from Doha to Riyadh’s King Khalid International Airport will resume on Friday, 13 November. Services to Dammam’s King Fahd International Airport will follow on Saturday, 14 November.The dates were confirmed in a travel advisory updated on 11 November, which said flights to Abha and Taif, however, remain temporarily suspended.A separate schedule published by the airline lists plans to increase Riyadh and Dammam services to two daily flights each from 21 November, rising to three daily flights from 28 November.Routes suspended in OctoberQatar Airways had announced the suspension of its Riyadh and Dammam routes on 12 October, without setting a return date. It said it was monitoring developments in Saudi Arabia with the relevant authorities and would contact affected passengers directly.Several Doha–Riyadh flights had already been cancelled on 9 and 10 October. As Doha News reported, the cancellations followed attacks on Riyadh’s airport on 8 October that killed three Saudi citizens, including a Saudia pilot.Qatar Airways cited operational reasons for those cancellations but did not explicitly link them to the attacks.On 19 October, the airline extended the suspension through 24 October. The airline’s latest advisory directs passengers to its website or mobile app for updated flight schedules and booking information.