Flynas
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| IATA code : | XY |
| ICAO code : | KNE |
| Call sign : | NAS EXPRESS |
| Founding: | 2006 |
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Riyadh , Saudi Arabia
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| Home airport : | Riyadh King Khalid |
| IATA prefix code : | 593 |
| Management: | Paul Byrne ( CEO ) |
| Passenger volume: | 3.3 million in 2013 |
| Fleet size: | 33 (+ 85 orders) |
| Aims: | National and international |
| Website: | www.flynas.com |
Flynas is a Saudi low-cost airline based in Riyadh . It was founded in 2006 as a subsidiary of National Air Services as Nas Air ( Arabic طيران ناس, DMG Ṭayarān Nās ), since November 2013 it has operated under the name Flynas .
history
Nas Air was founded in 2006 as the first low-cost airline in Saudi Arabia. With Sama Airlines, it was the first airline alongside Saudi Arabian Airlines to be approved in Saudi Arabia. The first commercial flight took place on February 25, 2007. The airline grew very quickly after its start, so that it now has a network of 30 destinations and 450 weekly flights. In November 2013 the name was changed from Nasair to Flynas .
management
The airline previously had the following CEOs :
| Surname | time |
|---|---|
| Francois Boutellier | until June 2013 |
| Raja Azmi | until November 2014 |
| Paul Byrne | from November 2014 |
possession
As of October 2014, the airline is 63% owned by National Airline Services Holding and 37% owned by Kingdom Holding .
Destinations
As of March 2016, Flynas flies from 46 airports in eight countries and has hubs in Riyadh , Jeddah , Medina and Dammam .
There have been connections to Asyut and Sharm el-Sheikh airports since 2009 . Initially, Adana , Antakya and Istanbul in Turkey were added to the route network in 2011. In the same year flights to Lahore started as the second Pakistani city, to Karachi . Since February 2013, flights from Dammam to Yanbu and the Sudanese capital Khartoum have been Dammam's first international destination.
In 2014 Flynas introduced the Global Flight Routes program. Since April 2014 Flynas has been the first low-cost airline to operate flights from Saudi Arabia to England on the Jeddah− London-Gatwick route . Three months later, the airline also offered flights from London Gatwick to Riyadh. This was followed by expansions in India, with Hyderabad in August and Kozhikode in September 2014.
There are also flights to Aswan and Luxor in Egypt and other destinations in the Persian Gulf . In March 2016, the airline inaugurated the Riyadh − Jawf and Riyadh Gurayat routes . Flynas has been connecting Riyadh with Vienna three times a week since June 2018 - initially seasonally.
fleet
As of March 2020, the Flynas fleet consists of 33 aircraft with an average age of 10.9 years:
| Aircraft type | number | ordered | Remarks | Seats |
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| Airbus A319-100 | 1 | 128 | ||
| Airbus A320-200 | 24 | 164 | ||
| Airbus A320neo | 6th | 64 | - open - | |
| Airbus A321neo | 10 | converted A320neo orders | ||
| Airbus A321XLR | 10 | |||
| Boeing 747-400 | 2 | operated by Terra Avia | - open - | |
| Boeing 777-200ER | 1 | |||
| total | 33 | 85 |
Former planes
In March 2014 Flynas got the first of the three Airbus A330s , leased from Hi Fly . The introduction of the Airbus A350 into the fleet was also planned. Before the airline completely converted its fleet to A320 models, 2 Airbus A319-100 (120 seats) and 2 Boeing 737-800 (176 seats) were also operated (around the beginning of 2017). The A319s were recently inactive.
list
Flynas operated the following aircraft in its previous existence:
- Airbus A310-300
- Airbus A330-200
- Boeing 737-500
- Boeing 757-200
- Boeing 747-400
- Boeing 767-300ER
- Embraer 190LR
- Embraer 195AR
See also
Web links
- Flynas website (English, Arabic)
Individual evidence
- ↑ aerotelegraph.com , accessed on March 18, 2014
- ↑ History section of the Flynas website ( memento of the original from December 15, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ flynas Adds New Riyadh Routes from Mar 2016. airlineroute.net, March 10, 2016, accessed on March 10, 2016 (English).
- ↑ flynas Fleet Details and History. Retrieved March 26, 2020 .
- ↑ Airbus - Orders and Deliveries , accessed on February 24, 2017
- ↑ Air Show: The orders for the Paris Air Show 2019. In: aeroTELEGRAPH. June 20, 2019, accessed on June 20, 2019 (Swiss Standard German).
- ^ Nas Air Fleet Details and History. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on November 15, 2017 ; accessed on May 25, 2017 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
