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nasair,
a Saudi Arabia-based low cost airline, has carried 500,000 domestic passengers since
its service launch last February.
nasair officials marked the special occasion by offering
passenger Mr Alaa Alruhaily, one year free travel on all domestic routes for him and his parents.
Alruhaily, a medicine school student at King Saud University in Riyadh, booked and payed his
nasair ticket online, to visit his family in Madinah.
"Today’s celebration crowns nine months of continuous efforts by the entire nasair team and a public testimony of the service’s growing
appeal within the local traveling community,” said Taher Agueel, NAS President. “With fleet expansion plans in place and the extension of
service’s operation to international routes, this figure will exponentially increase over the coming six months,” said
Agueel.
Last May, the airline celebrated its 100,000 passenger and later in August announced its 250,000th passenger when it broke the one million
miles barrier. nasair is aiming to break the 10 million passengers barrier by
2011.
nasair - a strategic business unit of the National Air Services “NAS” -
is licensed to operate domestic flights from the Saudi capital Riyadh.
On November 3rd,
the airline completed its obligatory domestic grid with a flight schedule covering 25 domestic from the capital Riyadh with 365
weekly flights.
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