Ajhar said that SAA has no specific peak season, as its year includes the school spring holidays, as well as the Hajj, Umrah and summer seasons. According Al-Ajhar, SAA is careful to take social ties into account when planning its operational programs. “We not only consider business when planning for our flights, we also consider the social issues that form Saudi society,” he said. He added that this is why SAA has made more flights available during school holidays so that families can visit relatives in different parts of the Kingdom. During the recently ended Hajj season, SAA carried nearly one million pilgrims on more than 2,000 flights. The airline carried 457,000 pilgrims from Asia with 308,000 international pilgrims being flown directly to Madinah. Apart from that SAA provided crew members who spoke a variety of languages and served different dishes to suit the tastes of pilgrims traveling to the Kingdom.
