State-owned Saudi Arabian Airlines said on Tuesday it carried almost five percent more passengers last year compared with 2014.

It flew 29,492,710 passengers in 2015, up 1,309,095 from the previous year, the airline said in a release of annual statistics which excluded financial data.
The carrier, known as Saudia, restated its aim of expanding its fleet to 200 aircraft by 2020.
In June last year it placed an $8 billion order with France-based Airbus for 50 planes.
They will be used for domestic flights, the airline says.
Under its wide-ranging Vision 2030 plan announced in April, Saudi Arabia is trying to diversify its oil-dependent economy.
Among the measures is development of the kingdom's tourism sector, privatisation of state-owned services including airports, and a linking of transport networks to position Saudi Arabia as a regional logistics hub.
Even before it unveiled its Vision 2030, the Arab world's largest economy was spending billions of dollars on building and upgrading airports.
Terminal 5 recently opened at King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, becoming the kingdom's first privately-run terminal.
A subsidiary of state-owned Irish airport operator "daa" is the operator.
The largest Middle East carrier, Emirates, said in May that it carried 51.9 million passengers in the 2015-16 fiscal year, up eight percent from the year before.
Emirates has a fleet of 250 aircraft.