The Hindu : Oman Air to augment flight operations

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Saturday, Jan 18, 2003

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Southern States - Kerala-Thiruvananthapuram

Oman Air to augment flight operations

By Our Staff Reporter

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM Jan. 17. Oman Air has evinced interest to enhance the operations to Kerala by introducing more daily flights to Thiruvananthapuram international airport and to commence operations to Kozhikode.

The airline has approached the Director General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) for increasing the frequency of daily flights on a couple of days to the State capital, according to the Country Manager-India of the Muscat-based airline, Yasser Al Lazki.

The airline believes in a high frequency strategy, with daily flights or more on all the routes. The airline, which is operating to Thiruvananthapuram, Kochi, Chennai and Mumbai at present, is interested to serve more cities in the country.

The airline is interested to operate flights to Kozhikode, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad and Mangalore. The country manager said the airline was looking forward for the traffic rights to operate in the Muscat-Delhi sector, which is the priority route of the expansion plans to the country.

According to him, the sectors being operated by the airline from Muscat to the country at present have reasonable traffic flow throughout the year.

This is mainly due to the peak demand periods throughout the year compared to other sectors, he said.

The airline is working on a plan to acquire wide-bodied aircraft to operate long haul routes to South East Asia and Europe. ``The larger aircraft might well find themselves going to India as well as on some of the more dense routes. All depends on the sanction of the traffic rights by the Government,'' he said.

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