THE SAUDI ARABIAN AIRLINES (SAA) WILL OPERATE MID-JULY DIRECT FLIGHTS TO MUNICH, VIENNA, ATHENS AND MANCHESTER. SAA'S DIRECTOR GENERAL ENG KHALID AL-MULHIM SAID SAA HAS BEEN OPERATING 12 DIRECT NON-STOP FLIGHTS FROM SAUDI ARABIA TO LONDON PER WEEK. AL-MULHIM SAID FOUR DIRECT FLIGHTS WILL ALSO BE OPERATED FROM SAUDI ARABIA TO NEW YORK AND WASHINGTON. MEANWHILE, THREE FLIGHTS WILL BE OPERATED FROM SAUDI ARABIA TO FRANKFURT AND TWO FLIGHTS TO MADRID, AS WELL AS SEVEN FLIGHTS TO PARIS WEEKLY. THIS DEVELOPMENT WILL RAISE THE NUMBER OF SAA'S AIRPORTS IN EUROPE TO MORE THAN 12. THEY INCLUDE LONDON, MANCHESTER, FRANKFURT, MUNICH, ROME, MILAN, GENEVA, PARIS, ISTANBUL, MADRID, ATHENS AND VIENNA.