Saudi Arabia’s low-cost carrier, flynas, has said that it will add 10 new routes to destinations in Asia and Europe for the duration of the upcoming summer season this year, starting in June.
These flights will operate out of Riyadh, Jeddah and Dammam.
It will serve four new destinations out of King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh. These include the Maldives, the Armenian capital of Yerevan, Antalya in Turkey, and Tivat in Montenegro.
It will also operate four routes from Dammam to Salalah in the Oman, the Turkish cities of Istanbul and Trabzon, and the Albanian capital of Tirana.
Also, flynas will launch two more routes from Jeddah to Salalah and the Turkish city of Bodrum.
With the addition of these new routes, the number of the carrier’s summer seasonal network destination stands at 23.
The carrier said that some of its summer destinations and routes announced in previous years will be re-launched this year too, including to the Czech capital of Prague, Vienna and Salzburg in Austria, the Azeri capital of Baku, Tbilisi and Batumi in Georgia, the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo, Hurghada and Sharm El-Sheikh in Egypt, Trabzon and Bodrum, and Salalah in Oman.
Bander Almohanna, CEO of flynas, said that the move to ramp up flights was in accordance with the country’s aviation growth strategy. “This approach is in line with the objectives of the Saudi Vision 2030 and the civil aviation strategy to reach 330 million passengers, 250 international destinations, and 100 million tourists annually.”
Flynas posted a record growth in performance and operations in 2022, with an increase of 91 per cent in the number of passengers to 8.7 million.
Last year, it also recorded a 45 per cent increase in the number of flights to 66,ooo flights, and a 46 per cent growth in its seat capacity.
“Flynas is keen to continue growing in its operations through upscaling its fleet by 50 per cent in 2023 compared to 2021, as the number of aircraft increased to 44 in February after taking delivery of the first A320neo out of 19 aircraft of the same model to be delivered during the next 10 months,” said Almohanna.
