Flights from Manila to Riyadh — Schedule, Carriers, Fare Bracket

Manila (MNL) to Riyadh (RUH) is the largest single OFW corridor in the Gulf, flown nonstop by Saudia, Philippine Airlines, and Cebu Pacific with about 14 weekly departures and a 10-hour block. Off-peak roundtrip economy fares run PHP 32,000-46,000. For deeper guidance on contracts, OEC, and end-of-contract logistics, see our full Manila-Riyadh pillar →.

Route at a glance

14 one-way departures a week are catalogued on MNL–RUH, flown by Saudia, Philippine Airlines and Cebu Pacific, with a scheduled block of 10.0 hours. The cheapest one-way in our cache is ₱22,255. 14 one-way departures a week are catalogued on the pair across 3 carriers on file.

This corridor carries a demand score of 10/10 in our route file and is flagged as a migrant-worker corridor. Read that number for what it is: an editorial 1-10 ranking of estimated Filipino-language search interest, built for prioritising which pages we research first. It is not a passenger count, not a load factor, and not a quality signal about the airlines involved. High-scoring corridors are the ones where seats on the cheapest fare classes disappear first and where the gap between an early booking and a two-week-out booking is widest; low-scoring corridors tend to hold their price longer but give you fewer departures to choose from if a plan slips.

• Distance & duration: ~10 hours nonstop, MNL to RUH.
• Carriers nonstop: Saudia (SV), Philippine Airlines (PR), Cebu Pacific (5J).
• Frequency: ~14 weekly departures across all carriers.
• OFW corridor: Yes — domestic helpers, healthcare, construction, oil & gas.

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Best time to book

₱22,255 is the cheapest MNL–RUH one-way in this site’s fare cache. It is a cache floor for one date and fare class, not a held quote. Across 5 cached departure months the floor ranged ₱11,385 to ₱22,439.

That ₱22,255 is a cache reading, not a quote, and the difference is worth stating plainly. It is the lowest one-way price the fare feed returned for MNL–RUH at the moment it was polled, for one specific departure date, in one specific fare class. It is a single one-way observation rather than an average, and it is not held: the inventory behind it is thin and often gone within the day. Three things it also excludes: checked baggage where the carrier sells a bags-free base fare, seat selection, and any change or refund flexibility. Treat it as the floor of the range you should expect to see, then compare the all-in total once the bag you actually need is added back.

Cheapest pockets are February-March and September to early November, when fares dip to PHP 32,000-38,000 roundtrip. Avoid mid-December to early January (balikbayan rush) and June-July (Hajj feeder), kasi puno ang flights and fares can spike 50-70%. Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha weeks also tighten loads sharply. Book 10-14 weeks out po for tipid; same-week fares within 10 days are almost always mahal, especially Saudia’s evening Riyadh bank. For full pillar coverage of booking strategy, see Manila-Riyadh full guide →.

Carriers compared

3 carriers — Saudia, Philippine Airlines and Cebu Pacific — are catalogued nonstop on MNL–RUH, filing about 14 one-way departures a week. Base economy checked baggage runs 0–30 kg across them. ₱22,255 is the lowest one-way the fare feed returned for this route on 2026-08-02.

What each operator brings to this pair, from our carrier file:

• Saudia (SV) — alliance SkyTeam; hubs JED/RUH; 30 kg economy checked; +15 kg OFW uplift; PH brand strength 8/10.
• Philippine Airlines (PR) — alliance none (ex-oneworld observer); hubs MNL/CEB; 23 kg economy checked; +10 kg OFW uplift; PH brand strength 10/10.
• Cebu Pacific (5J) — no global alliance; hubs MNL/CEB/CRK/DVO/ILO; 0 kg economy checked; PH brand strength 10/10. Cebu Pacific sit outside a global alliance, which matters at exactly one moment: a disruption. An alliance partner can usually be rebooked onto without a new ticket, an unaligned carrier needs an interline agreement to do the same thing, and if neither exists you are buying a fresh seat at walk-up price.

Fare bracket (peso-first)

₱22,255 is the cheapest MNL–RUH one-way in this site’s fare cache. It is a cache floor for one date and fare class, not a held quote. Across 5 cached departure months the floor ranged ₱11,385 to ₱22,439.

Across the 5 departure months we hold for this pair (December 2026 through August 2026 in the cache), the cheapest reading is ₱11,385 in December 2026 and the most expensive ₱22,439 in August 2026. Two caveats keep that honest. First, each month contributes one number — the cheapest one-way the feed found in that month — so this is a floor-by-floor comparison, not an average fare by month, and a month with thin coverage can read artificially low. Second, the months are not a forecast: they describe inventory that was loaded when we polled. What the shape is genuinely useful for is ranking your own flexible dates. If your trip can move by three or four weeks, the difference between the cheapest and dearest month here is larger than almost any discount code will ever be.

• Low (Feb-Mar, Sep-early Nov): PHP 32,000-38,000 (SAR 2,100-2,500 / USD 570-680).
• Mid (May, late Aug, late Nov): PHP 39,000-52,000 (SAR 2,550-3,400 / USD 700-925).
• Peak (Hajj Jun-Jul, Eid, Dec 15-Jan 5): PHP 60,000-82,000 (SAR 3,950-5,400 / USD 1,070-1,460).

OFW-specific notes

2 of the 3 carriers on MNL–RUH publish an OFW baggage uplift; the largest is 15 kg with Saudia, on top of a 30 kg economy base. It is granted at check-in against documents, not by fare class. 14 one-way departures a week are catalogued on the pair across 3 carriers on file.

Two separate systems meet at the gate on an OFW corridor and it helps to keep them apart. The airline owns the ticket, the seat and the baggage allowance. The Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) Philippines owns your right to leave as a worker — the Overseas Employment Certificate, the record of a licensed recruiter, the contract that the immigration officer is checking against. An airline cannot fix a documentation problem and will not refund a fare because you were offloaded over one; that is a separate process with its own timelines. The practical order of operations is therefore: settle the DMW paperwork first, then buy the ticket around the date it clears, then claim the baggage uplift at check-in with the same documents in hand. Book the other way round and the cheapest fare you found becomes the most expensive change fee you have paid.

Kabayan, RUH is the largest OFW destination in the world by Filipino headcount. Saudia’s 45 kg Bayanihan bundle is the workhorse for end-of-contract returns; PAL’s Bayani is more flexible kapag may rebooking; Cebu Pacific is mura kapag light traveler ka. Always carry OEC, contract copy, and POLO clearance — NAIA spot-checks pa rin, lalo na sa first-time deployments. Paano kung deployment ban or contract issue? PAL and SV usually offer free reroute kapag may DMW/POLO advisory.

Riyadh as an arrival point

4 facts identify the arrival airport on this pair: RUH is King Khaled International Airport (RUH/OERK); the local currency is SAR; region Middle East; OFW relevance rated high. 14 one-way departures a week are catalogued on the pair across 3 carriers on file.

On arrival you are landing at King Khaled International Airport, ICAO OERK, serving Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Largest single OFW corridor; domestic helpers, healthcare, construction. Across the whole Philippine market, Saudia, Philippine Airlines, Cebu Pacific and Gulf Air are the carriers our destination file records as serving Riyadh from home — a wider set than the ones flying this particular pair, which is why a Manila routing sometimes opens options Manila does not have. Worth checking before you compare two prices: the code is an airport, not a city. Multi-airport cities are common, the discount is usually attached to the inconvenient field, and the ground leg quietly reclaims both the money and the hour. Check which airport your fare actually lands at before you compare two prices, and if you are connecting onward from a different airport in the same city, treat that as a separate journey with its own buffer — no airline protects a connection that involves a taxi.

Entry rules for a Philippine passport in Saudi Arabia

1 rule governs entry here for a Philippine passport: Employment visa via DMW-approved recruitment agency, at Paid by employer per DMW rules, for a maximum stay of per employment contract (typically 2 years). Verified 2026-05-18. 14 one-way departures a week are catalogued on the pair across 3 carriers on file.

• Saudi Arabia (OFW employment) — Employment visa via DMW-approved recruitment agency; fee Paid by employer per DMW rules; max stay Per employment contract (typically 2 years). OEC (Overseas Employment Certificate) required at NAIA departure. Visa stamped in passport before deployment. Official source
• Saudi Arabia (Umrah) — Umrah e-visa via Nusuk platform; fee SAR 535 (~₱8,000); max stay 90 days in KSA for Umrah. For Hajj: separate visa via MUMA (Muslim Mindanao) and Office of Muslim Affairs. NOT Nusuk. Official source

Two things this table does not cover, and they are the ones that strand people. A visa grants permission to apply for entry — the officer at the border still decides, and a return or onward ticket plus proof of funds is what that decision usually turns on. And a visa for your destination says nothing about the countries you transit: several major hubs require their own transit visa or a same-terminal, same-ticket connection to be exempt, and the exemption is lost the moment you have to collect a bag and check in again. Visa rules change frequently. Use this as a starting reference only; verify with the destination’s embassy or official immigration portal before booking. For OFW employment visas, follow the DMW deployment process — that is separate from tourist/visit visas.

What 8 weeks of fare snapshots show on MNL–RUH

8 weekly snapshots between 2026-W19 and 2026-W31 put the cheapest MNL–RUH one-way between ₱17,790 and ₱49,245. The latest reading, 2026-W31, is ₱22,255. 14 one-way departures a week are catalogued on the pair across 3 carriers on file.

We take one reading a week and keep it. Over 8 of them the low was ₱17,790 in 2026-W29 and the high ₱49,245 — a 2.8× swing on an unchanged route, which is the single most useful thing this series says. Week to week the last move was down ₱21,214 (49%) from 2026-W30 to 2026-W31. Method, so you can discount it properly: each point is the cheapest one-way the feed could see in that ISO week, not a booked price and not an average of the market, and a week where the poll caught a promotional seat reads lower than the week either side of it. The band is the signal; individual weeks are noise. A fare inside the lower third of that band is a good one on this pair; a fare above the top of it is worth re-checking a week later before you commit.

Delays and cancellations: what actually applies on MNL–RUH

1 statutory scheme reaches MNL–RUH: the GACA passenger-protection regulation. It governs departures from Saudi airports and sectors flown by Saudi-licensed carriers, so it reaches the return leg rather than a Manila departure on a foreign airline. The Philippine departure is covered instead by the Civil Aeronautics Board’s Air Passenger Bill of Rights.

Saudi Arabia’s passenger-protection regulation is administered by GACA and it is anchored on the departure airport and the operator’s licence: it governs flights leaving Saudi airports, and sectors flown by Saudi-licensed carriers. In practice that is your return out of Saudi Arabia, plus any sector operated by Saudia — not a Manila departure on a foreign airline, which falls outside it entirely. Reference: GACA — Passenger Protection Regulation (Saudi Arabia).

On the Manila end, a flight departing a Philippine airport is covered by the Air Passenger Bill of Rights administered by the Civil Aeronautics Board, which obliges the carrier to offer rebooking or a refund and to provide amenities as a delay lengthens. Its shape matters: refunds and service obligations, not a tariff of cash compensation — do not plan a claim around a fixed sum.

One exclusion matters specifically on RUH. A seat bought on a scheduled flight is covered by everything above. A seat on a dedicated Hajj or Umrah charter is not: the passenger contract there runs through the pilgrimage organiser and the accredited tour operator — in the Philippine case coordinated with the Philippine NCMF — National Commission on Muslim Filipinos — and the first claim path is the organiser, not the airline and not a claims-automation service, which are built around scheduled IATA flights.

FAQ

8 questions below draw only on the route, carrier and fare data this project keeps for MNL–RUH. Anything that is a cached floor rather than a bookable price says so, and rules that fail in specific situations are answered with those situations named.

Checked baggage and the OFW uplift on MNL–RUH

15 kg is the largest OFW uplift on this route, carried by Saudia on top of a 30 kg economy base — 45 kg in total for a qualifying passenger.

Checked allowance on this pair, from our carrier file:

• Saudia — 30 kg economy base, +15 kg under Manila Bayanihan / extra baggage for OFW = 45 kg for a qualifying worker.
• Philippine Airlines — 23 kg economy base, +10 kg under Overseas Filipino Bayani Program (extra baggage 10kg + handling) = 33 kg for a qualifying worker.
• Cebu Pacific — 0 kg economy base, no OFW uplift recorded in our carrier file.

The uplift is the part people get wrong, so here is where it does not reach. It belongs to the passenger through a programme rather than to the ticket, and it is released at the counter against documents — an OEC or OFW Pass and, usually, the employment contract. Book a bags-free base fare on a low-cost carrier and there is no base allowance for the uplift to sit on top of. Book the domestic feeder as a separate ticket and the uplift does not follow the bag onto it. Fly a segment operated by a partner airline under a codeshare and the operating carrier’s own rules apply, not the one whose code is on your ticket. And the allowance is per passenger, not per booking — you cannot pool it across a family unless the airline’s own pooling rule says so. Verify the number at booking; excess bought at the airport is priced per kilo and is the most expensive kilo you will ever buy.

What is the cheapest Manila to Riyadh fare on record here? ₱22,255 one-way — the lowest price the fare feed returned for MNL–RUH when this route was last polled on 2026-08-02. That is the minimum of one record for one route, not of the whole cache: a floor for a single date and fare class, not a held quote, and it excludes checked baggage where the carrier sells it separately.

How much do MNL–RUH fares move week to week? Across 8 weekly snapshots from 2026-W19 to 2026-W31 the cheapest one-way ranged ₱17,790 to ₱49,245. Each point is the lowest fare visible that week, not an average of the market.

Does the OFW baggage uplift apply to every fare on MNL–RUH? No. The largest uplift on this route is 15 kg with Saudia, granted at check-in against an OEC or OFW Pass. It does not apply to a bags-free base fare, to a separately ticketed domestic feeder, or to a codeshare segment operated by a partner under its own rules, and it is per passenger rather than per booking.

Can I claim delay compensation on MNL–RUH? On the Saudi-departing leg and on any Saudi-licensed carrier’s sector, yes — GACA’s regulation reaches those. A Manila departure on a foreign airline is outside it. Separately, a departure from a Philippine airport is covered by the Civil Aeronautics Board’s Air Passenger Bill of Rights, which mandates rebooking, refunds and amenities but sets no fixed cash scale.

Magkano ang ticket Manila to Riyadh? Roughly PHP 32,000-46,000 (SAR 2,100-3,000 / USD 570-820) roundtrip economy off-peak; peak Hajj/Eid hits PHP 60,000-82,000.

Anong airline ang pinaka-sulit? Saudia gives 45 kg Bayanihan baggage; PAL Bayani is 33 kg with more flexibility; 5J is cheapest base.

Paano kung Hajj season? Fares spike 50-70%. Book 4-5 months ahead or fly shoulder weeks for tipid pricing.

Visa ba ang Pinoy sa KSA? Required po. OFWs use work visa; tourist e-visa available since 2019 for non-OFW visits.

Related guides on this site

• Manila to Riyadh full pillar guide →
• Flights to Saudi Arabia →
• Saudia carrier guide →
• OFW flights complete guide →

Updated 9 May 2026. FlyPilipinas is a 14-person Filipino editorial team; content is researched and edited by Filipino travel and OFW specialists. About the author →.