New Delhi: In its bid to compete with other Gulf carriers, Oman's flag carrier Oman Air plans to increase its flight services in India to 175 weekly by 2018 besides seeking an enhanced weekly seat entitlement.
The Muscat-headquartered carrier currently operates 126 weekly flights across 11 destinations here.
"We are in the first phase trying to look in increasing our frequencies to the existing destinations where we have today 126 weekly frequencies to 175 per week by 2018," Oman Air chief executive officer Paul Gregorowitsch told PTI. India is an "extremely important" destination for Oman Air and being the fastest growing economy in the world it offers a huge potential, he said.
Seeking equal footing with other Gulf-based carriers such as Emirates, which enjoy almost 25 per cent more weekly seat entitlement than Oman Air, Gregorowitsch said, "We have currently 21,147 seats per week. We are looking to increase it to total 29,820 flights by 2018 and hope to increase further to 40,000."
All this depends about the bilateral negotiations between Oman and India, he added.
26/06/16 PTI/Times of India
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The Muscat-headquartered carrier currently operates 126 weekly flights across 11 destinations here.
"We are in the first phase trying to look in increasing our frequencies to the existing destinations where we have today 126 weekly frequencies to 175 per week by 2018," Oman Air chief executive officer Paul Gregorowitsch told PTI. India is an "extremely important" destination for Oman Air and being the fastest growing economy in the world it offers a huge potential, he said.
Seeking equal footing with other Gulf-based carriers such as Emirates, which enjoy almost 25 per cent more weekly seat entitlement than Oman Air, Gregorowitsch said, "We have currently 21,147 seats per week. We are looking to increase it to total 29,820 flights by 2018 and hope to increase further to 40,000."
All this depends about the bilateral negotiations between Oman and India, he added.
26/06/16 PTI/Times of India
