Dammam
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Oct 16, 2026
Ian PetchenikHOST
We'll see what comes of that, though Riyadh isn't the only airport affected.
Ian PetchenikHOST
Major cities, including Dammam and Jeddah, have also been affected with intermittent halts in operations, holding, diversions, airport closures, and regional airports in the southwest of Saudi Arabia have been just closed all week.
Ian PetchenikHOST
So this is what the...
Ian PetchenikHOST
As someone who communicates for a living, I certainly enjoy some of the language choices from policy providers.
Roger MacmillanGUEST
Let's take some of these in turn.
Roger MacmillanGUEST
So the most recent ones conducted by the Houthi, that is to, to strike into the heart of Riyadh, strike in, strike into the heart of Dammam, and cripple potentially the two most important airports for the country.
Roger MacmillanGUEST
But it also, they've been targeting the energy infrastructure of Saudi Aramco, not just i- in Dammam in the east, but also in the western ports of Yanbu I think were struck this morning.
Roger MacmillanGUEST
They're looking at destabilizing.
Roger MacmillanGUEST
They're looking at making sure that the, the energy, the oil resources cannot be pumped and cannot get potentially out to the West, but it also damages Saudi Arabia, um, if financially too.
Greg CarlstromPANELIST
That's the airport in Riyadh.
Greg CarlstromPANELIST
Other ones are open, Dammam in the east, Jeddah in the west, but, uh, they have been targeted as well.
Greg CarlstromPANELIST
You can watch, if you go on a flight tracking website, planes, uh, circling around those airports for hours sometimes because it's not safe to land.
Greg CarlstromPANELIST
And so for many people at the moment, if you wanna get in and out of Saudi Arabia, the only really safe way to do it is to fly into a neighboring country like Bahrain or Qatar, uh, and then drive overland from there.
Borzou DaragahiHOST
They seem to have a certain precision in their targeting that we've seen with the targeting of the Saudi Aramco headquarters in recent days.
Borzou DaragahiHOST
I think the city is in Dammam in Saudi Arabia.
Borzou DaragahiHOST
This is devastating Saudi Arabia.
Borzou DaragahiHOST
It's devastating the Gulf economy.
speaker_2HOST
Aviation data counted more than 3,100 Saudi flights canceled between October 8th and 14th.
speaker_2HOST
Indigo canceled flights to Riyadh, Jeddah, Dhamam, and Medina through October 24th.
speaker_2HOST
Air France suspended Riyadh service through October 31st.
speaker_2HOST
And Etihad and FlyDubai canceled Riyadh flights through October 19th.
Derek DavisonHOST
Those were the third and fourth attacks that they've made on that facility in the span of less than a week, and they've struck it again, uh, in the days since then.
Derek DavisonHOST
Th- they've also been attacking Other airports around the country, King Fahd International Airport, for example, in the city of Dammam in eastern Saudi Arabia.
Derek DavisonHOST
They've attacked a number of Saudi Aramco facilities, including the company's, uh, headquarters in Dhahran, uh, earlier this week.
Derek DavisonHOST
It caused a fire, uh, it was apparently quite extensive.
Derek DavisonHOST
Th-they've also been attacking other airports ar-around the country.
Derek DavisonHOST
King Fahd International Airport, for example, in the city of Dammam in eastern Saudi Arabia.
Derek DavisonHOST
They've attacked a number of Saudi Aramco facilities, including the company's, uh, headquarters in Dhahran, uh, earlier this week.
Derek DavisonHOST
It caused a fire, uh, was apparently quite extensive.
Hugo GoodridgeHOST
Mm
Louay FaourGUEST
... as far as, uh, Dammam.
Louay FaourGUEST
Um-
Hugo GoodridgeHOST
God, that far?
Chris PlanteHOST
When I was, uh, I spent, uh, uh, many years ago, I spent several months in, in Saudi Arabia, and, uh, Dhahran primarily.
Chris PlanteHOST
And, uh, and we would go to the judicial center in Dammam on Friday afternoons bec- to Chop Chop Square, they call it Chop Chop Square, in the judicial center of the eastern province of Saudi Arabia, where they carry out the, uh, punishments, where they cut your hand off and cut your head off.
Chris PlanteHOST
And, uh, me and, uh, uh, another friend or two would go down every Friday afternoon when they, uh, carry out the, the punishments in public, and get a shawarma and go over to see if the- they're, uh, carrying out.
Chris PlanteHOST
But because there were lots of Americans around, they, they ha- they were shy about doing that.
Ben MeiselasSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
They also struck an airport nearby as well.
Ben MeiselasSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
In Damam, Saudi Arabia, the King Fahd International Airport, you know, the Riyadh strike led to 14 killed and 320 to 340 people injured.
Ben MeiselasSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
MBS has been trying to cover up all of these strikes in Riyadh.
Ben MeiselasSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So they're not even issuing or they were not issuing defense warnings to the civilian population.
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