RIYADH — 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 honored during the Skytrax World-Airline Awards ceremony, held in London, in the presence of flynas’ CEO Bander Al-Mohanna and members of the senior management.

Al-Mohanna said “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.

Established in 2007, flynas is a 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 in Riyadh, Jeddah, Dammam and Abha.

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