Saudi Arabian Airlines privatisation deadline announced

Saudi Arabian Airlines plans to complete its long-running and much delayed privatisation of its mainline passenger business by the end of 2Q2013. The privatisation process has been going on in some form since 2000 and at several points has looked in danger of dragging on until economic conditions improved and the airline had completed its modernisation programme or even being abandoned altogether. [814 words]

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