Riyadh Air Unveils Flagship Hafawa Lounge Riyadh, Ahead Of Launch

I don’t drink anymore but in my early 20s a non alcoholic lounge would have been a complete non starter.

I'm guessing that the average business class passenger's age is rather higher, though?

Now we just have to see when the airline actually launches operations, because that’s kind of a big detail

Hopefully, it'd take less than Allegris 😛

Airline won't survive without alcohol, unless they are significantly cheaper in fare than me3, if the business class seat riyadh charges is same as qsuite, why choose the no alcohol option for those who drink at all

@ Luke -- While we'll see how it plays out, keep in mind that the claim is that Riyadh Air primarily wants to serve traffic to and from Saudi Arabia, rather than connecting traffic between other regions. Saudi Arabia has a much bigger population than the UAE, Qatar, etc.

@lucky when is the airline supposed to start operations?

@ Mike -- They just announced that they're actually launching in just a few weeks, but in a quirky way:
https://onemileatatime.com/news/riyadh-air-london-flights/

Not sure about other markets but ages 35-54 drink more than other in the UK. Individuals may have stopped drinking compared to their youth but there's still a large bulk of people for whom it is an important part of their relaxing ritual.

Even worse than Royal Brunei, which at least allows BYOB on board.

"When it comes to eating and drinking, there’s no shortage of options."

I can think of a few.

Come for the mocktails, stay for the hijabs.
Delta customers sure are in for a fun surprise if they think they're flying to an equivalent DOH or DXB.

Duh.. unless you’re an alcoholic. The raisin d’etre of an airline is not its wine selection. To add, alcohol doesn’t taste the same at altitude and negatively affected people faster than it does on land.

Yeah but a lot of ME3 premium traffic travels from/to Saudi Arabia. Some Saudi officials have been vocal enough to complain about this. We will see how much of that traffic would rather have a dry direct flight on Riyadh or a connecting "boozey" flight on ME3 or a direct flight on almost any other carrier serving RUH...

Raison .. ironic it was raisin - grape - wine lol

oh look. Fake Julie is back at it today.

--Actual Julie

Hmm I wonder what champagne is on offer

Without alcohol, what really differentiates this new airline from pre-existing Saudia which already has pretty decent hard products in premium cabins

are you actually this bored Fake Julie ?
jesus. Tim Dunn? is your life this boring to hijack other usernames like this? how can anyone be this lame and embarrassing to themselves?

--Real Julie (as usual... with my usual delta shade)

this person that can't seem to find their own identify (tim - well known for fake usernames), feel free to ask Ben to hop in with a request for which username is using the usual username and username.

Get a life, it's so tiring to have you impersonate me and act like it's not the case.

-- actual Real Julie

Ben,
you've done this with other guest users and blocked access to the username except from the actual email that started the account. You know who the original Julie username/email is and who the other one is. Do you mind blocking this person? We all have a fun time on this site but it's a lot when this Julie (Tim) keeps trying to use other usernames to harass others.

--Julie

sweetie, all you have to do is register your account.

Playing guest vs. guest is not how it works.

we're waiting for the "I forgot my meds" post

The lack of self-awareness to not realize that YOU are the one harassing people.

One can always count on Tim Dunn to reinforce that he's the one behind using other names.
Thanks, "sweetie"

And then the fun follow up from him immediately after as Julie to just reinforce who the fake person is... no surprise. what a loser.

What will be the premium Champagne on offer?
HaHA.
Pass.

we're just waiting for you to publish the "meds" post, Tim.