flynas added a series of achievements in 2019. Throughout the year flynas pursued its efforts to develop its fleet and expand its operations, while continuing to offer the best services at competitive prices. This echoed through the number of travelers, which posted a year-on-year growth of 15%.
Bander Almohanna, flynas’CEO, indicated that flynas transported around 7.6 million passengers in 2019, up from around 6.6 million in 2018. This brought the total number of passengers transported by flynas over its 12 years of operations to more than 50 million passengers.
Almohanna recapped flynas’ accomplishments that highlight its commitment to its expansion strategy and ambitious medium and long-term plans. He praised the MoU signed in June with Airbus to purchase 10 of the latest A321XL aircraft with a total value of 9 billion SAR. He also indicated that to date flynas has received four airliners from the 2017 mega-deal with Airbus to purchase 120 A320neo aircraft for a value of 32 billion.
During 2019, flynas avidly pursued its geographic expansion strategy. Almohanna pointed out that the carrier announced the launch of several new and direct destinations, particularly between Riyadh and New Delhi. flynas also launched new flights to the Indian cities of Lucknow and Calicut, bringing the number of destinations in India to four, after New Delhi and Hyderabad. flynas plans to tap new international destinations including Lahore, Islamabad, Sarajevo, Vienna, Batumi, Tbilisi, and Baku, among others.
flynas operates more than 1200 weekly flights to 35 domestic and international destinations on its fleet of 30 aircraft.
Source: flynas