Wednesday 19 March 2014

Saudi low-cost airline links Europe and Southeast Asia via its Jeddah hub by 2 May 2014

Report by : Gan Yung Chyan
               / KUCINTA SETIA
Distributed to All Press & Travel Professionals


Saudi Arabia's low-cost airline flynas, formerly known as Nasair and named after its web-site flynas.com, is launching long-haul flights to Southeast Asia and Europe from its hub in Jeddah in April 2014 with Airbus A330 aircraft.

On 6 April 2014, flynas starts separate direct flights to Kuala Lumpur and Jakarta from Jeddah. Two days later, it launches the Middle East's first budget flight to London Gatwick Airport and by 2 May 2014, it will open the world's first budget flight to Manchester, thus linking Southeast Asia with Europe in the cheapest way of travel via Jeddah.

flynas' flights aim to boost Jeddah's status as another competitive hub of Dubai. Nasair initially started flights in 2007 and was rebranded to flynas in November 2013 when it saw the name "flynas" first appearing on Nasair's official inflight magazine "flynas".

flynas will be the second airline to launch flights to Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Sepang in 2014 after Citilink. Citilink launches its second international flight service to Kuala Lumpur from Surabaya on 3 April 2014  after Senai (first service on 15 March). The only Saudi private airline has extensive domestic, regional and African flight networks operated by its Airbus A320 fleet.


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