flynas offers Starbucks Coffee onboard its flights

Press release

Published May 26th, 2014 - 05:25 GMT

Al Bawaba

flynas, Saudi Arabia’s national carrier, has announced its cooperation with Starbucks Company to offer The Ready Brew Coffee onboard of flynas flights starting from 1 June 2014.

Commenting on this, Wael M. Al Sarhan, Director of Marketing & Communication at flynas “This new service comes as part of flynas’s strategy to develop its onboard services, as flynas’s vision is aiming to provide its guests with their favorite meals and beverages, and in this step our customers can enjoy the world’s leading brand of coffee”.

flynas recently revealed its summer onboard menu, as it is striving to improve the onboard experience for its guests. Now it is offering the world’s best loved coffee on its flights with a choice of rich Italian Roast or nutty Columbian, allowing the guests to enjoy the high quality Starbucks coffee whilst on the go.

Speaking on behalf of Starbucks, Rana Shaheen, Regional Communications and CSR Manager, Middle East and North Africa, said: “We are delighted to be appointed exclusive supplier of coffee onboard flynas flights, offering customers the opportunity to enjoy a naturally roasted coffee, with no by-products, giving coffee lovers the rich flavor they expect from Starbucks.”

The flynas summer 2014 menu also features new delicious hot wraps, a new selection of premium confectionary and chocolate, and top selling soft drink brands.

The new additions to the summer menu are part of flynas’s commitment to continually enhance its services offered as part of its transformation into a world class airline that is now expanding to cover an increasing number of international destinations.

Background Information

flynas

flynas is a Saudi Arabian leading low-cost carrier with a fleet of 30 aircrafts, operating more than 1200 weekly flights to 35 destinations (domestic-international).

Since its launch in 2007, flynas has carried more than 38 million passengers, a number that has steadily grown over the past 11 years.

flynas offers its guests value for money with the best fares, on time flights and superior customer service which has seen flynas awarded the Middle East’s Leading Low Cost Airline from the World Travel Awards for four consecutive years (2015- 2016-2017-2018) as well as the prestigious Skytrax award for Middle East’s Best Low Cost Airline in 2017 and 2018.

flynas continues to grow and invest in its product with a recent agreement with Airbus to purchase 120 new A320NEO aircraft at a list value of US$ 8.6 billion.

Company Profile

Starbucks Coffee Company

Since 1971, Starbucks Coffee Company has been committed to ethically sourcing and roasting the highest quality coffee in the world. Today, with stores around the globe, the company is the premier roaster and retailer of specialty coffee in the world.

As the premier vendor of the finest coffee, Starbucks is focused on delivering the best experience to every customer at each of its locations around the world, including Kuwait, KSA, UAE, Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, Qatar, Bahrain & Oman in the Middle East region

Starcbucks work with many communities, and is committed to providing the Starbucks Experience while respecting the local customs and tastes of each country it operates in. It is also committed to hiring locally, currently providing nearly 2700 jobs for more than 30 nationalities including Arab nationals in over 300 operating stores in the region.

Starbucks stores have been operating in the Middle East since 1999 through a licensing agreement with trading partner and licensee MH Alshaya WLL, a private Kuwait family business.