King Khalid International (RUH, ICAO OERK) serves Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and is a reference and transit hub in our catalogue. No non-stop African corridor is catalogued here yet, so Riyadh appears as a transit and reference point — travellers usually reach it via a Gulf or European hub.
At a glance
0 catalogued corridors touch Riyadh (RUH / OERK) in Saudi Arabia: 0 outbound and 0 inbound, flown by 0 carriers. 0 of those corridors carry a cached USD quote in our weekly fare cache; the rest are catalogued on schedule evidence alone. The mix runs 0 sectors under four hours, 0 of four to seven and 0 beyond seven.
| Attribute | Detail |
|---|---|
| IATA / ICAO | RUH / OERK |
| City | Riyadh |
| Country | Saudi Arabia |
| Direct destinations (catalogued) | 0 |
| Reached from (African origins) | 0 |
| Coordinates | 24.958, 46.699 |
The route mix at RUH splits into 0 short sectors under four hours, 0 medium sectors of four to seven hours and 0 long-haul sectors beyond seven — a profile that tells you what the terminal is actually built around. 0 of the corridors here are flagged in our data as labour-migration or diaspora routes, where checked-baggage terms drive booking decisions more than schedule does.
Two codes, two uses. RUH is the IATA code you will see on a ticket, a baggage tag and a departure board, while OERK is the ICAO code used in flight plans, NOTAMs and air-traffic filing. They are not interchangeable: IATA codes are reused across the world’s smaller fields and are the ones that cause mis-booking, which is why every corridor on this site is keyed on the pair of codes rather than a city name.
Passenger compensation rights at RUH
1 regulator covers RUH: Saudi GACA, which reaches any flight to or from Saudi Arabia, arrivals included. It obliges care, rebooking or a full refund and compensation for cancellations and long delays inside the airline’s control, without an EU-style fixed distance tariff.
Because Riyadh (RUH) is in Saudi Arabia, flights to or from it — including an arrival from Africa — fall under GACA’s passenger-protection rules for care, rebooking, refunds and compensation on cancellations and long delays within the airline’s control.
| Regime | When it applies | Remedy for a long delay / cancellation |
|---|---|---|
| Saudi GACA | Any flight to or from Saudi Arabia, including arrivals into RUH. | Duty of care, rebooking or a full refund, and compensation for cancellations and long delays within the airline’s control under GACA’s passenger-protection rules. |
| Montreal Convention 1999 | Any international itinerary — baggage and delay losses. | Compensation for lost, damaged or delayed baggage (up to 1,519 SDR per passenger) and for provable losses caused by delay (up to 6,303 SDR), limits in force since 28 December 2024. |
Because Riyadh (RUH) is in Saudi Arabia, flights to or from it — including an arrival from Africa — fall under GACA’s passenger-protection rules for care, rebooking, refunds and compensation on cancellations and long delays within the airline’s control.
FAQ
3 questions below answer what travellers ask most often about this page’s subject, drawn from the same route, carrier, airport and fare data as everything above. Where a figure is missing from our data, the answer says so rather than estimating.
Is RUH in the CheapFlightsAfrica catalogue? King Khalid International (RUH) is included as a reference and transit airport, but no non-stop African corridor to or from Riyadh is catalogued here yet — travellers usually reach Riyadh via a Gulf or European connection.
What are the IATA and ICAO codes for RUH airport? The IATA code is RUH and the ICAO code is OERK. The airport serves Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Can I claim compensation for a disrupted flight at RUH? On flights to or from RUH, GACA rules require care, rebooking or a refund and compensation for cancellations and long delays within the airline’s control.
How current are these numbers? Routes, carriers and airports are this site’s own reference data, revised from time to time; fares come from a weekly snapshot of Travelpayouts cached fares, with a weekly history log behind it. Each page states its own last-updated date.
Sources
3 primary sources cited on this page are regulator and government material, not secondary summaries. Each is listed with what it actually governs, so a claim on this page can be checked against the instrument it comes from. Where a value is missing from our own data we leave the cell blank rather than estimate it.
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Saudi GACA — passenger protection — the Saudi regulator, whose passenger-protection rules govern care, rebooking, refunds and compensation on flights to and from the Kingdom.
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Montreal Convention 1999 — ICAO — the ICAO treaty collection, the source for the Montreal Convention 1999 baggage and delay liability limits.
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AirHelp — flight-compensation claims — a commercial claims service, cited as the industry explainer alongside the regulator rather than instead of it.
Every legal claim above is anchored to the instrument that creates it rather than to a summary of it, with commercial explainers cited only alongside, never instead. That is also why amounts appear in euro, pound, Canadian dollar and SDR rather than converted into the USD used for fares: a compensation tariff is a fixed figure in its own currency, and converting it would invent movement the law does not have.
Related
- Flights to Saudi Arabia — country landing page: 16 catalogued corridors from African airports, carriers, visa row and the USD fare floor we have on file.