The General Authority of Civil Aviation recommended the need to be accurate and careful when purchasing travel tickets to various destinations and to ensure the reservation conditions. The authority stated through its official accounts on social media that this comes to ensure the rights of the public, noting the need to ensure that the office dealt with has a valid license issued by the General Authority of Civil Aviation.
Booking airline tickets is not currently limited to travel offices and agencies only, but there are special websites through which electronic booking can be made “online”, which in turn provide multiple options in terms of destinations and prices, including direct or transit travel, in addition to the airlines themselves, which in turn provide their official approved websites through which booking can be made directly.
The General Authority of Civil Aviation is keen to provide services to facilitate investors by granting them the required licenses to practice commercial activities related to air transport in order to avoid any penalties resulting from violating the laws and instructions issued by the General Authority of Civil Aviation. Those wishing to practice activities related to tourism, travel and flight reservations can contact the General Authority of Civil Aviation to issue the necessary approvals in accordance with the applicable laws and regulations.
The Authority has specified the licensing requirements on its official website as follows: site inspection, a copy of the commercial register (after adding the activity), a copy of the commercial license (after adding the activity), a copy of the owner’s ID card, a copy of the office lease contract, a bank guarantee of 200,000 riyals for travel agencies and 100,000 riyals for air freight offices, while the license issuance fees have been set at 10,000 riyals.
On July 3, the Cabinet approved a draft law regulating travel and air freight offices, and referred it to the Shura Council. The draft law was prepared to replace Law No. (26) of 2006 regulating air travel offices, and Law No. (6) of 2010 regulating air freight offices, within the framework of updating legislation to keep pace with developments in this sector, and in accordance with the requirements of international organizations.
