State-owned Saudi Arabian Airlines (Saudia) has re-acquired a 30 per cent stake in technical subisidiary Saudi Aerospace Engineering Industries (SAEI), it said in a statement carried on state news agency SPA on Wednesday.

SAEI was spun off from Saudia as part of a privatisation effort in 2009 and sold 30 per cent of its shares to the Trabut Group in 2013, according to its website.

Saudia said the decision to buy the stake back from Trabut was a move to standardise procedures, while also mentioning a high level of 'Saudisation' within SAEI and the nearing to completion of an aircraft maintenance facility in Jeddah. – Reuters