Al Baha
Regional airspace and security checks come before drawing conclusions about an actual routing.
Evidence and limitations
Regional airspace and security checks come before drawing conclusions about an actual routing.
Distance is not an operating range calculation. This material does not establish airport, airspace, fuel, payload or regulatory feasibility.
Regional airspace and security checks come before drawing conclusions about an actual routing.
Technical research, not an operational authorization or promise of service.
Round 22 · 2 Nov 2026
Data position: AIRSPACE/SECURITY HOLD
Airport threshold elevation around 5400-5460ft; major hot/high and obstacle-limited takeoff check; published 3350m LDA/TORA both directions.
What is not yet proven: 2016–2025 actual route winds, two-way validated IFR paths, OEM trip fuel and A220 runway performance.
The airport evidence makes this a research candidate, not an operating or safety approval.
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The peninsula in perspective · Al Baha
Al Baha opens a different window on Saudi Arabia. Desert, settlements and long-established travel corridors make this geography more complex than a map line. We begin with curiosity about the place itself, then ask the harder question of whether a carefully configured aircraft could ever reach it responsibly from Oslo.
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