Riyadh - Post Report Question and Answers
What is your home city/country? How long is the trip to post from there, with what connections? How easy/difficult is it to travel to this city/country?
Arlington, VA. About 18-20 hours, through Doha. Pretty easy to travel back home. There is a direct flight to Dulles but we are currently not allowed to use. - Dec 2024
USA - Trip to post usually had multiple connecting flights with usually about 24 hours of transit time. - Jul 2021
US. People often connect through Paris. - Feb 2018
Washington, D.C. I'd guess eight hours to Frankfurt, and about eight more to Riyadh via Lufthansa. - Oct 2017
West Coast -- 5 1/2 hours to Frankfurt then 12 hours to San Francisco. - Jan 2017
Washington, D.C. About 8 hours to Frankfurt, and another 5 hours from Frankfurt to Riyadh. - May 2016
Ohio. 16-20 hours depending on airports/connections. - Nov 2015
Washington DC. Six hours to Frankfurt/Munich/London, then nine hours to DC. - Oct 2015
Washington DC. 14 hours with connections. - Oct 2015
Washington, DC, normally it takes between 19-24 hours. Luftansa and Delta. - Jan 2015
Washington DC. - Sep 2014
Washington, D.C., is now home. It probably takes about 20 hours to get to post, including an unavoidable long layover in Germany. - Mar 2014
Northern Virginia. It takes approximately 14 hours. - Dec 2013
My home base is Toronto, Canada. I usually connect in Frankfurt, Germany. The trip is about 24 hours with layovers. - Oct 2013
Australia is a 20 hour flight. - Mar 2013
Washington DC - 15 hours - Apr 2011
My home base is in California, I have found that you can fly from Riyadh via Frankfurt to San Francisco, or via Hong Kong to San Francisco. - Jul 2010
Washington DC. About 16 hours through London or Frankfurt. - Mar 2010
USA - around 24 hours to fly to Home of Record. - Jan 2010
Central US. 14 hours to the east coast (via Europe) if you're flying on the USG's dime. Then another 3+ hours home. - Dec 2009
