SAUDIA started out in 1945 with a single twin-engine DC-3 (Dakota) HZ-AAX given to King Abdul Aziz as a gift by the U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. This was followed months later with the purchase of two more DC-3s, and these formed the nucleus of what in few years later was to become one of the world’s largest airlines.

BTC had the honor serving SAUDIA by one of the latest technologies in Digital Mobile Radio, used in all SAUDIA terminals over kingdom Airports