SalamAir has unveiled plans to launch flights
between Muscat and Bangkok, Thailand.
Scheduled to take off on 18 December 2022, the Omani
airline will operate the route with thrice weekly flights
departing from Muscat on Sundays, Tuesdays and Fridays.
From Bangkok, the flights are scheduled to depart
every Monday, Wednesday and Saturday.
Bangkok will be SalamAir’s second
destination in Thailand, giving travellers the option of booking a flight to Phuket and
return from Bangkok, or vice versa.
The
journey between Muscat and Bangkok will take about 6 hours.
“Bangkok remains one of the most preferred
tourist destinations for Omanis and expats,” said Captain Mohamed Ahmed,
CEO of SalamAir. “We are delighted to
commence flights between Muscat and Bangkok, providing our
customers with a perfect value-for-money product that allows them
to be flexible, save on airfare with our competitive pricing and
add services they prefer. The flights will boost tourism, economic
relations, and business opportunities between Oman and Thailand.
The airline’s network expansion strategy is dedicated to
increasingly connecting more destinations along new sectors to
establish a strong pan-international presence.”
SalamAir launched commercial operations in 2017
and currently operates one A321F, six A320neo and four A321neo to
the domestic destinations of: Duqm, Masirah, Muscat, Salalah and
Suhar
International destinations include: Alexandria,
Bahrain, Baku, Bangkok, Bursa, Chattogram, Dammam, Dhaka, Doha,
Dubai, Istanbul, Jaipur, Jeddah, Karachi, Kathmandu, Khartoum,
Kuwait, Lucknow, Multan, Phuket, Prague, Riyadh, Sarajevo, Shiraz,
Sialkot, Tehran, Trabzon and Trivandrum.
The airline also flies
directly from Suhar to Shiraz, Salalah and Calicut, and Trabzon
and from Salalah to Calicut.
