The Oman-based airline, SalamAir has unveiled
plans to launch direct flights between Muscat and Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia.
Scheduled to take off on 3 July 2023, the airline
will operate the route with two flights per week on Mondays and
Fridays. The flight time between the two cities is approximately
seven hours.
Kuala Lumpur will be SalamAir’s first destination
in Malaysia.
“We are delighted to launch flights between Muscat
and Kuala Lumpur, providing 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,” said Captain Mohamed Ahmed, CEO of SalamAir. “The flights
will boost tourism, economic relations, business opportunities,
and student movements between Oman and Malaysia and serve the
overall Oman 2040 vision of supporting the inbound tourism sector
as one of the main contributors to the national GDP of the
Sultanate of Oman. We are committed to connecting more
destinations along new sectors to establish a strong
pan-international presence.”
SalamAir’s international destinations include
Alexandria, Bahrain, Baku, Bangkok, Bursa, Chattogram, Colombo,
Dammam, Dhaka, Doha, Dubai, Istanbul, Jaipur, Jeddah, Karachi,
Kathmandu, Khartoum, Kuwait, Lucknow, Madinah, Multan, Phuket,
Prague, Riyadh, Sarajevo, Shiraz, Sialkot, Tehran, Trabzon and
Trivandrum.
SalamAir also flies directly from Suhar to Shiraz,
Salalah and Calicut; as well as Trabzon, from Salalah to Calicut,
Prague and Medina; and from Duqm to Masirah.