OnBoard Courier Saudia in the network the desk measures
Computed on 2026-09-07 from AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics. The desk holds departure schedules for 571 airports, and for the SV code that yields 141 city pairs across 87 of them. It is a measured sample of the published timetable and not the whole of it. Frequencies move with the season, and a quote is priced on the flights running the day you ask.
87airports on this carrier
38countries and territories reached
141scheduled city pairs held
579average daily flights across them
The schedule the desk holds carries the SV code on 141 city pairs, reaching 87 airports in 38 countries and territories. Some of those sectors are flown by OnBoard Courier Saudia and some are sold under its code and flown by a partner, which is how the published timetable states it and how a booking has to be read. 50.6 per cent of those airports sit on Asian time zones, and the next largest block is on European time zones.
01The longest sector held for the carrier is Washington (IAD) to Riyadh (RUH) at about 10,842 km, and the shortest is Dawadmi (DWD) to Riyadh (RUH) at about 238 km. 26 of the 141 pairs run past 5,000 km, so the carrier carries a courier across a continent on some sectors and shuttles on the rest. The airport that appears most often on those pairs is Jeddah (JED), on 72 of them, which is 51.1 per cent of everything held under this code.
02The thickest sector under the code is Jeddah (JED) to Riyadh (RUH) at about 76.3 movements a day, which across a full day is roughly one every 0.3 hours. On a sector at that cadence a missed departure costs a wait rather than a night. 42 of the 141 pairs run four or more times a day and 60 run once a day or less. The second figure is the one that matters when a consignment leaves the factory late, because on those sectors the desk will quote a different carrier rather than promise an hour it cannot hold. After Jeddah (JED) the code leans on Riyadh (RUH) on 57, Medina (MED) on 12, Ad Dammam (DMM) on 4 pairs respectively, and those are the airports a dispatcher looks at second when the first routing is full.
The sectors that carry the SV code most often
The 16 sectors the SV code appears on most often, out of 141. Flights a day is the average daily scheduled movement on the busier of the two directions, as held on 2026-09-07. The schedule lists a code against a sector whether the carrier operates it or sells it, so read this as where the code can be booked. Distances are great circle, computed from the published coordinates of the two airports.
Where SV meets the UAE gateways
OnBoard Courier Saudia is one of the carriers a courier can board without leaving the Emirates. The desk holds 4 pairs under this code touching Abu Dhabi (AUH), Dubai (DXB), so a booking can start at a UAE counter and stay on one ticket to the delivery city.
Night restrictions on the airports the SV code uses
A hand carry is bought for the hours it saves, and an airport that will not take a movement after a certain hour can spend those hours back. 15 of the 87 airports this code is booked through carry a restriction the desk holds in writing, checked 2026-09-07. Exemptions and seasonal variations exist, and the desk confirms the position with the airport or the carrier before it books.
- London (LHR), night restrictions. A night quota system limits movements between 23:30 and 06:00 local. Very few scheduled departures in that window.
- Paris (CDG), night restrictions. Scheduled movements between midnight and 05:00 local are limited to a fixed annual number of slots.
- Frankfurt-am-Main (FRA), night restrictions. No scheduled take offs or landings between 23:00 and 05:00 local. A late evening departure that slips past 23:00 does not go until morning.
- Vienna (VIE), night restrictions. Movements between 23:30 and 05:30 local are limited.
- Abu Dhabi (AUH), night operations. Operates around the clock with a strong overnight bank.
- Geneva (GVA), night restrictions. No scheduled movements between midnight and 06:00 local.
Published lanes that carry the SV code
The site publishes a page for 346 courier lanes. OnBoard Courier Saudia appears in the schedule on 4 of them, and the one it flies most is Bali to Singapore at about 18.4 movements a day. That overlap is the honest test of whether a carrier is useful to this desk rather than merely famous.
- Bali to Singapore, about 18.4 scheduled flights a day on the busier direction, 1,671 km.
- Jeddah to Istanbul, about 8.7 scheduled flights a day on the busier direction, 2,387 km.
- Riyadh to London, about 4 scheduled flights a day on the busier direction, 4,941 km.
- Riyadh to Frankfurt, about 0.4 scheduled flights a day on the busier direction, 4,294 km.
The countries the SV code opens
Of the 38 countries and territories reached, 20 are reached at a single airport, which for a courier means one airport of entry and a road leg for everything else in that country. The deepest is Saudi Arabia with 18 airports on this code. The country desk for Saudi Arabia sets out the customs practice, the working hours and the road legs behind these airports.
Saudi Arabia (18 airports), India (7 airports), Pakistan (5 airports), Morocco (5 airports), Egypt (4 airports), Türkiye (3 airports), Algeria (3 airports), France (2 airports), Spain (2 airports), Germany (2 airports).
Where to go next on the SV network
Each of the 87 airports above has its own atlas entry with the full destination list, and each of the 141 sectors can be opened in the calculator with the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour worked out. Start with the atlas entry for Jeddah (JED), the route calculator with Dubai to JED already filled in, the carrier index for the other 236 airlines the desk lists and the airport atlas itself.
