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Flyadeal

low-cost airline of Saudi Arabia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 31, 2026
Entity authorityQ24035331
Source-derived summary

flyadeal (Arabic: طيران أديل, romanized: Tayaran Adil) is a Saudi Arabian low-cost airline headquartered at King Abdulaziz International Airport in Jeddah. It is a subsidiary of Saudia, Saudi Arabia's flag carrier airline.

History

Saudia, the flag carrier of Saudi Arabia, announced the creation of flyadeal on 17 April 2016. The venture is part of Saudia Group's SV 2020 Transformation Strategy, which aims to elevate the group's units into world-class status by 2020. flyadeal targeted domestic travellers, Hajj and Umrah pilgrims and the rising number of tourists, among other groups. The airline launched flights on 23 September 2017, linking Jeddah to Riyadh. On 10 June 2022, flyadeal began operating flights from Dammam to Cairo. In 2025, the company expanded into South Asia by launching its debut flight to Pakistan. "flyadeal Adds Riyadh – Lahore Service in NW25".

Destinations

Codeshare agreements

flyadeal has a codeshare agreement with one airline:

Saudia

Fleet

As of September 2025, flyadeal operates the following aircraft:

On 7 July 2019, flyadeal revealed its intention to order 30 Airbus A320neo aircraft with a further 20 options.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Flyadeal” is low-cost airline of Saudi Arabia. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Flyadeal, low-cost and airline, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2016, 2020, 2017, 2022—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2016-01-01. For this dossier, Flyadeal, low-cost and airline is the immediate research focus.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 31, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q24035331. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2016, 2020, 2017 and 2022.

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This entry incorporates text from Flyadeal” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.