Terminal 5, which is being built at King Khaled International Airport (KKIA) in Riyadh is scheduled to be completed by the end of this year, officials have said.

The announcement came as Sulaiman Bin Abdullah Al-Hamdan, president of the General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA), visited the terminal to inspect the work in progress.

The Terminal 5 project was implemented to transfer passenger traffic from Terminal 3 during the period of expansion and development of Terminals 3 and

Saudi Arabia has committed to a SR40 billion ($10.65bn) programme to upgrade or build more than 20 airports to help accommodate its fast growing but underserved aviation industry.