S/Arabia to test-run flying taxis during 2024 Hajj

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Saudi Minister of Transport and Logistics, Saleh Al-Jasser, says pilgrims will have the unique experience of benefiting from the service of flying taxis and drones during this year’s Hajj season.

Saudi Minister of Transport and Logistics Eng. Saleh Al-Jasser receives Hajj pilgrims at Prince Muhammad bin Abdulaziz International Airport in Madinah on Thursday. (Saudi Gazette photo)

Al-Jasser announced the innovative logistic service during a press briefing in Madinah on Thursday Morning.

This is coming after he received first batch of foreign pilgrims at Prince Muhammad bin Abdulaziz International Airport in Madinah.

“These represent highly advanced modes of transportation including taxi applications. There is a race among specialised companies in the transport sector.

They are competing to provide the best means of transport over the coming years,” he said.

According to him, it is necessary to learn about these technologies and the appropriate environment for operating such modes of transport in such seasons.

“We will be at the forefront to benefit from these services,” he said. The minister added that the Hajj season will have the largest chunk of such modes of transport.

Recalls that Al-Jasser said last year that flying taxis would be tested during the Hajj season in the coming years.

Earlier, Saudi Arabian Airlines had unveiled plans to operate flying taxis to ferry Hajj pilgrims between King Abdulaziz International Airport in Jeddah and hotels in Makkah.

In January, Abdullah Al-Shahrani, Director of Corporate Communications and spokesman of the Saudia Group said that the Saudi national carrier “is prepping to use air taxis as a new mode of transportation during the Hajj season”.

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Al-Shahrani said the Saudia Group contracted the purchase of 100 Lilium jets, German electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft.

The aircraft will shuttle between Jeddah airport and airstrips in Makkah hotels near the Grand Mosque and other holy places.

“The electric plane Lilium is one of the first aircraft that operates entirely on electric power.

“After completing the necessary arrangements, these planes will fly with the guests of God during Hajj and Umrah seasons from King Abdulaziz International Airport in Jeddah to the airstrips in hotels near the Grand Mosque in Makkah,” he said.

An air taxi is a small commercial aircraft that makes short flights on demand.

TheNewsZenith reports that Hajj, one of the five pillars of Islam, is the annual pilgrimage to the holy cities of Mecca and Medinah in Saudi Arabia.

The main Hajj rites usually take place between the Dhul-Hijjah 8 and 13.

2024 Hajj season is expected to begin on Dhul-Hijjah 8, (June 14). (Report cull from Saudi Gazette)

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Saudi Minister of Transport and Logistics, Saleh Al-Jasser, says pilgrims will have the unique experience of benefiting from the service of flying taxis and drones during this year’s Hajj season.

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