Saudia (SV, Jeddah King Abdul Aziz (JED)) has withdrawn all of its seven B747-300s from service earlier this year leaving it with a own B747 fleet of one B747-200(F) freighter and four B747-400s. It however also wet-leases four B747-400(F)s from Air Atlanta Icelandic (CC, Reykjavik Keflavik (KEF)) and Evergreen International Airlines (EZ, Marana Pinal (MZJ)), a single Air Atlanta B747-300s and a total of 14 B747-400s from Air Atlanta, Orient Thai Airlines (OX, Bangkok Suvarnabhumi International (BKK)) and Pullmantur Air (EB, Madrid Barajas (MAD)). The 5 Orient Thai and Pullmantur B747-400s only operate for Saudia during the Hajj charter season.

Pullmantur Air (EB, Madrid Barajas (MAD)) has wet-leased B747-400 EC-KXN (MSN 26346) to Saudia (SV, Jeddah King Abdul Aziz (JED)) for this year's Hajj pilgrimage charter season starting in several days. Pullmantur Air is no stranger to Hajj operations and has previously operated on behalf of Garuda Indonesia (GA, Jakarta Soekarno-Hatta International (CGK)).

AlbaStar (JQ, Palma de Mallorca Son Sant Joan (PMI)) is considering starting direct sales to consumers on some of its charter flights currently mainly operated on behalf of Italian and Spanish tour operators following other Spanish charter carriers Orbest (Spain) (IP, Palma de Mallorca Son Sant Joan (PMI)) and Pullmantur Air (EB, Madrid Barajas (MAD)) that have already done the same.

Pullmantur Air (EB, Madrid Barajas (MAD)) has added weekly B747-400 services from Madrid to Punta Cana and Santo Domingo Las Americas as its second and third scheduled routes besides Cancun.

Pullmantur Air (EB, Madrid Barajas (MAD)) has leased a fourth ex-Korean Air (KE/Seoul Incheon) B747-400. It has started to operate its four weekly Madrid-Cancun services operated with B747-400s as scheduled services.