Saudia B787-9 business class, Casablanca to Jeddah
Trip to Casablanca, Uzbekistan and Manila flying Saudia Business Class
- Review: Hilton Garden Inn Casablanca Sud
- Review: Grand Mogador City Center
- Exploring Casablanca
- Review: Royal Air Maroc Lounge, T2 Casablanca (CMN)
- Review: Saudia B787 Business Class, Casablanca to Jeddah
- Review: Saudia A321 Business Class, Jeddah to Dubai
- Review: Hilton Tashkent
- Review: Hilton Samarkand Regency
- Review: Panarams Tashkent Hotel, a member of Radisson Individuals
- Exploring Tashkent and Samarkand
- Review: Saudia A321 Business Class, Jeddah to Riyadh
- Review: Saudia AlFursan Lounge Jeddah Domestic (JED)
- Review: Saudia AlFursan Lounge Riyadh International (RUH)
- Review: Saudia B777 Business Class, Riyadh to Manila
Flight: SV376
Departure time in Casablanca (CMN): 07:40
Arrival time in Jeddah (JED): 15:50
Aircraft: B787-9
Seat: 5A
Duration: 6h 10m
Date of flight: October 11, 2025
*This is an SAS award ticket, Business Class flight #296
Video on YouTube
Casablanca International Airport Terminal 2, Check-in
Fast Track
Royal Air Maroc Zenith Lounge
Boarding, Gate A4
Aircraft, B787-9 (HZ-ARD)
Business Class Cabin
Seat 5A
My seat 5A is a window seat.
Storage
Storage
On the right hand side of the seat is another storage perfect for bottles of water.
The pillow was soft.
Pre-departure Beverage
Amenity Kit
For this day flight, we were offered a very nice amenity kit by the Lebanese fashion designer Elie Saab. In comparison, Qatar Airways would always give amenity kits (day and night flights) while Emirates only give them on night/long haul flights. The content was very generous: hand and body lotion, lip butter, face cleanser, face cream and a small bottle of perfume. They also had the usual dental kit, ear plugs and eye mask. I would say that this has become one of my favorite amenity kits (the one from Qatar Airways is still my favorite).
Pushback & Take Off
We began pushback at 7:38am and 15 minutes later, we were airborne.
Menu
Menu
Beverage list
Non-alcoholic drinks
Inflight Entertainment
The movie selection was very good, and I ended up watching Megan 2.0.
Wifi
Business class passengers and status members get free wifi access for the whole flight. Others get free messaging plan for 30 minutes/5MB limit. Paid access is 50USD for the whole flight with 200MB data limit and 20USD for a 20-minute use with 30MB data limit.
Dining
Saudia offers dine-on-demand on their flights so you decide whenever you want to have your meal. I decided to have breakfast served after take off.
Menu, light dining
Beverage list
Coffee and tea
To start the breakfast service, nuts were offered. Again, I chose the antioxidant drink to go with it.
Instead of having the local selection (Saudia Sufrah), I chose the international one. Sadly, they only had 2 servings of salmon which was already taken so I settled for the cheese and cold cut for my appetizer.
For my main course, I chose the Scrambled eggs with handmade rye waffle, smoked salmon and whipped chive ricotta.
The signature date and banana smoothie was perfect.
Dental floss.
The breakfast was actually very good. This is more or less in par with what I would normally get flying Qatar Airways or Turkish Airlines.
Movie Treats
Pre-landing Snacks
I was thinking of ordering a cappuccino but changed my mind and went for the plant based milk (oatmeal. It was served with Patchi chocolates 👍
Lavatory
Landing in Jeddah
We landed in Jeddah at 3:24pm and reached our gate 8 minutes later.
CONCLUSION
Finally, I was able to fly Saudia business class! I have been used to flying Qatar Airways, Turkish Airlines and SAS business class in the last year so it was nice to experience first hand what it was like to fly with Saudia. Of course, Saudia being a dry airline is not a problem for me since I do not drink.
The service was friendly and professional, with Irene a nice lady from the Philippines taking care of me the entire flight. It is always nice to have a "kabayan" working on the flight as I always feel at home. The dining experience was also very good, I would say still not in par with Qatar Airways but much better than Kenya Airways and other airlines I have flown with. The seats are average, nothing special like the Q-suites though.
I have several flights in Saudia business class in the future and knowing what they offer now in business class, I'd say I am looking forward to those flights. There is still room for improvement but I am sure Saudia is on the right track 👍 To all the crew on this flight, Shukran!
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