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00:00What's the plan? You'd open perhaps the short-haul routes first and perhaps move on to long-haul from there?
00:06Is there a sort of a roll-out plan? Are you able to tell us anything about that?
00:09Well, obviously, I can only tease at the moment the cities in question
00:13because we're going to be moving into our ticket-selling window towards the summer.
00:19But before then, what I can say is it's actually going to be a number of the longer-haul ones first.
00:24And the reason for that, Tom, is we're actually taking Boeing 787 as our first deliveries.
00:31So I use this illustratively.
00:33We're likely to operate from capital cities, let's say, in north-western Europe into Riyadh.
00:40And then to get the utilisation out of the aircraft after a turnaround time there,
00:45we'll operate on a shorter sector.
00:47So the likes of Jeddah, the likes of Dubai and many others where there's lots of demand.
00:54To make sure that those aircraft are put to work well.
00:57But importantly, we can give incredible Riyadh air service to our guests.