Saudi Ministry of Hajj and Umrah has issued penalties against a total of ten Umrah companies, in the amount of up to 50,000 Saudi riyals each company, for their failure and breach of the duties and statutory obligations provided to pilgrims, the most important of which were violations related to housing and transportation services.
There is a statement which is issued on Monday by the ministry in which the ministry itself confirmed that they are not going to allow or tolerate any other shortcoming that affects the services of the pilgrims and that it is continuing to protect their rights with service providers by restarting the work of monitoring tours on all service sites, and dealing with reports of pilgrims, in an effort to raise the level of quality of services provided.
Then, the ministry called the pilgrims from inside and outside the kingdom in order to deal with establishments licensed by the competent authorities to organize trips or to choose accommodation facilities and means of transport licensed by the concerned authorities in order to preserve their rights and ensure that the service is provided to them.
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لا للتهاون في خدمة ضيوف الرحمن.#معتمرون_آمنون pic.twitter.com/a1l83feS7p— وزارة الحج والعمرة (@HajMinistry) April 24, 2022
A few days back, the prices of flights are increasing day by day, especially flights from Kuwait in order to perform the Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia, and it is expected to increase more significantly by 40 percent due to the decrease in the Hajj quota, as per the media reports.
Saudi Arabia is all set for this year of Kuwait quota for Hajj at 3,622 pilgrims, down from the pre-pandemic time with 8,000 pilgrims.
According to some local media reports, it is expected that the prices of Haj flights from Kuwait this year will range from 3,000 Kuwaiti dinars to 4,000 Kuwaiti dinars, an increase of about 40 percent compared to previous seasons.
On Thursday, the Saudi Ministry of Hajj and Umrah allocated the provisional Haj quota to each country for the year 2022.