flynas Wins Skytrax Award for Best Low-Cost Airline

in the Middle East for Second Consecutive Year

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, July 17, 2018: flynas, the Saudi carrier and leading low-cost airline in the Middle East, made another remarkable national achievement by winning on Tuesday the prestigious Skytrax award for the Best Low-Cost Airline in the Middle East for the second consecutive year.

flynas, the low-cost carrier airline of Saudi Arabia, earned the award based on votes and surveys conducted by Skytrax over a 10-month period. It was honoured during the Skytrax World Airline Awards ceremony held in London, in the presence of flynas’ CEO, Mr. Bander Al-Mohanna and members of the senior management.

flynas’ CEO, Mr. Bander Al-Mohanna stated, “The award is a remarkable national achievement for the airline and it will be added to the list of flynas’ achievements accomplished as a result of our guests’ confidence and their continuous support, in addition to the professional teamwork aiming to achieve the market’s aspirations, as we seek to continuously develop in order to maintain our leading role in the Middle East’s economic aviation.”

Al-Mohanna said flynas aims to continuously expand its business and operations in innovation, providing new services, offering diverse travel options and reaching new global destinations in 2018 such as Vienna, Baku, Tbilisi, Athens and Trabzon in order to meet its passengers’ needs and to maximize their satisfaction.

Al-Mohanna added : “The Skytrax award is a result of flynas’ strategy, which is based on providing the best customer service such as the first travel insurance service in Saudi Arabia and naStream service that was launched on the 1st of July 2017 via passengers’ personal smart devices.”

The Skytrax award is part of flynas’ series of successes, the last of which was winning the Middle East’s Leading Low-Cost Airline award from World Travel Awards for the fourth consecutive year in Dubai in April, in addition to the “Top 100 Saudi Brands” award received from His Royal Highness Prince Khaled Al-Faisal, Makkah Governor and Advisor to the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz.

The Skytrax award is a global standard for excellence amongst airlines. The winners are selected based on votes and surveys conducted by Skytrax over a 10-month period to rate quality and standards across 41 key performance indicators related to services and products offered by airlines.


About flynas:

Established in 2007, flynas is the national Saudi Carrier and the leading low-cost airline in the Middle East with a fleet of 30 Airbus A320 Aircraft, operating over 1,100 flights weekly to 17 domestic destinations and 53 international destinations.

Since its launch, flynas has successfully carried more than 38 million passengers from its bases of Riyadh, Jeddah, Dammam and Abha.

flynas’ high value offerings, on-time performance and superior customer service earned flynas the award for Middle East’s Leading Low-Cost Airline from World Travel Awards 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018, as well as the prestigious Skytrax Award for Middle East’s Best Low-Cost Airline in 2017.

For more information, visit www.flynas.com