Saudi Arabia is targeting a tenfold increase in international airline passengers transiting the kingdom by the end of the decade as it looks to triple annual passenger traffic, an official said.
The government last year announced plans to become a global transportation and logistics hub by 2030 targeting passenger traffic of 330 million a year, though few details have emerged.
A tenfold increase would mean international transit traffic jumps to 30 million in 2030 from about 3 million in 2019, or 10% of Saudi Arabia's annual passenger traffic, up from 3%. Some analysts argue there is space in the Gulf to compete for transit traffic, particularly after Abu Dhabi's Etihad Airways has scaled back its ambitions in recent years.
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