Intercity travel in Saudi Arabia is measured in hours, not minutes. Riyadh to Jeddah is about nine hours in the car. That length changes what a seat is. You are not sharing a short ride across town, you are sharing a day with the people beside you, including the rest stops.
That is why women-preference trips are now built into the product rather than arranged by message after a booking. We would rather the preference be settled before a seat is taken than negotiated once somebody has already paid.
Two ways it starts
The preference can be set from either side of the trip.
- A driver marks a trip as women-preference when posting it. From that moment the trip's seats are only offered to women riders.
- A rider filters her search for women-preference trips, and sees only the trips already marked that way.
Both paths meet at the same place: a trip that is marked, and a seat request that is only possible for riders inside the preference. There is no separate app and no separate network of trips. It is the same map, the same fixed price per seat, and the same booking flow.
The setting belongs to the trip, not to a profile, so a driver who posts two trips in one week can mark one of them and leave the other open. Riders see the marking on the trip card in the search results, before they open the trip at all.
What it guarantees
A women-preference trip is closed to riders outside the preference. A rider who does not match cannot request a seat on it, so the driver is never put in the position of declining somebody for that reason, and a rider never discovers the mix of the car at the pickup point.
Everything else Diz already does stays in place on these trips. The driver is WASL-verified with licence and vehicle checks behind them. The price per seat is fixed and shown before booking. Live trip sharing, the SOS button and in-app chat all work exactly the same.
What it does not claim
We want to be plain about the limits, because a safety feature that is oversold is worse than one that is described honestly.
- It is a filter on who can book the trip, not a claim about anyone's character.
- It does not replace reading the driver's rating and trip history before you request a seat.
- It does not change the road. Share the trip with someone at home the same way you would on any long drive.
- It does not make a trip appear that nobody posted. On a quiet route, filtering narrows what you can see.
Saying that plainly is not a disclaimer. It is how a feature earns trust, by describing exactly what it controls and nothing beyond it.
Why it matters on this network
Most of the routes we serve are long. Riyadh to Jeddah is about 950 km. Jeddah to Madinah is about 420 km. Riyadh to Abha is another 950 km road. On trips of that length, comfort is not a small consideration added at the end, it is part of whether the trip is possible at all for some riders.
For a student going home for the weekend, a woman travelling alone between cities, or a family sending a daughter to Makkah, the question is not only what a seat costs. It is who else is in the car for the next nine hours. Answering that question before the booking rather than after it is the whole point of the feature.
How to use it today
- As a rider: search your route and date, then turn on the women-preference filter before you look at the results.
- As a driver: mark the trip when you post it, not afterwards, so the seats are offered correctly from the first minute.
- Either way: confirm the pickup point in chat once the request is accepted, exactly as on any other trip.
The option sits next to the rest of the trip details, where a decision is actually made. That placement is deliberate, and it is where we intend to keep it.