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Emerging from the desert sands on a far corner of the expanding King Abdulaziz International Airport in Jeddah, the skeletons of aircraft hangars appear.
A glass office block, stylish minarets, and a huge concrete-cased building are nearing completion.
This is the new HQ of SAEI. But it is not just an MRO facility – this is the realisation of a vision of how a new approach to the aerospace engineering sector is creating a mutually rewarding community.
It is called the MRO village but, in reality, at close to a million square metres, it is more like an MRO town.
RIYADH: Saudia Aerospace Engineering Industries’ new maintenance, repair and operations village is expected to be fully operational in 2025. The facility is 50 percent complete and will be ready by the first quarter of 2024. Speaking to Arab News at the Future Aviation Forum in Riyadh, Majed Sabbagh, VP of transformation and shared services at SAEI, described the growth of