Riyadh: Two Boeing B787-9 Dreamliner are scheduled to be officially delivered to the Saudi Airways this week.
The Saudi airlines company announced that six other Boeing B787-9 Dreamliner will be delivered in 2016-2017.
Earlier, a total of 282 new employees finished intensive training and graduated as stewards and stewardesses to be recruited to work aboard eight Boeing B787-9 Dreamliner which were purchased by Saudi Arabia.
According to a report in Arabic daily Sabq, a first batch of 60 stewards and stewardesses underwent their training in the Boeing Flight Services training campus in London before joining the Jeddah-based Saudi Aviation Flight Academy.
A second batch of 222 stewards and stewardesses also attended an intensive training programme