The Muscat to Paris service is the third European route to be opened within the last few weeks and follows Oman Air's receipt last week of its first Airbus A330-300.

Peter Hill, Oman Air's Chief Executive Officer, says: "Paris is an important market for Oman Air and we are excited about building both leisure and business traffic on this new route. With brand new First Class, Business Class and Economy Class seats, fine dining and the very latest onboard technology and in-flight entertainment, our new fleet is the last word in luxury and we are delighted to be offering it on the Muscat-Paris service." The launch of the new route was celebrated at a gala dinner on Tuesday 13th October, at which the guest of honour was Oman's Minister of Tourism, Her Excellency Dr Rajiha bint, Abdul Amir Ali. She was joined by senior executives from Oman Air and key business, social and political figures from the French capital.

Peter Hill continues: "Oman Air is certainly bucking the trend. While other airlines are cutting back on their routes, introducing new charges and reducing their fleets, we continue to increase the number of destinations we fly to, expand our fleet and introduce world-class onboard products and services.

"In the last few weeks, we have introduced new services to Frankfurt and Munich, brought out first A330-300 and A330-200 aircraft into service and unveiled brand new Economy, Business and First Class seats. We now look forward to introducing this wonderful three-class service to our daily, non-stop Muscat to London route in December, and to launching new services to The Maldives and Sri Lanka within the next few days.

"Not only are we surpassing our customers' high expectations, but we are offering more choice, more luxury and greater value."

(c) Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation. Date posted: 15-Sep-09

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