Muscat: Oman Air is working hard to expand the scope of bilateral agreements in place with the Indian subcontinent to add new destinations.
"There are new policies now. But we are increasing the number of aircraft and adding more destinations like Goa, Dhaka in Indian subcontinent and Manila and Jakarta in South East Asia. In addition to this, we are trying to add more destinations by stretching the bilateral agreements with authorities concerned in the Indian subcontinent," Oman Air CEO Paul Gregorowitsch, told Times of Oman on the sidelines of the opening of the upgraded Oman Air check in facilities for first/business class passengers on Tuesday.
The new check in facilities were opened by Dr. Mohammed Bin Nasser Al Zaabi, Chief Executive Officer of the Public Authority of Civil Aviation.
"An increase is witnessed in the number of business class passengers and as part of providing extra convenience, the new check in facilities were set up. We want to provide seamless travel for high profile passengers," Oman Air CEO added.
According to Sheikh Ayman Al Hosni, Director General of Muscat International Airport, Oman Air is studying all options and alternatives to facilitate travel procedures for all passengers travelling via Muscat Airport and Salalah Airport through the provision of a variety of top level services to the first and business class passengers, as well as economy and transit passengers.
On Sunday, Oman Air announced its plans to start a new service between Muscat and Goa, a western Indian state, by next summer.
The national carrier, which is embarking on a massive expansion programme to enhance fleet strength to 55 planes by 2017, plans to operate three weekly flights to Goa, which will go up to five eventually, using a 154-seater Boeing 737 aircraft.
Oman Air also has plans to double its services to two flights a day (morning and night) between Muscat and various destinations in the Indian subcontinent, instead of a daily flight now.
"We are aspiring for more traffic rights to India to enable us to fly to every destination in India twice a day – morning and night. We now fly twice a day on Muscat-Mumbai, Muscat-Chennai and Muscat-New Delhi sectors. We want to serve Kochi and Thiruvananthapuram twice a day," Abdulrahman Al Busaidy, chief operating officer of Oman Air, told media on Sunday.
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