Oman Air’s Bangalore flight to promote tourism

Muscat: National carrier Oman Air will strive to promote Muscat as a hub for the increasing number of IT professionals travelling from Bangalore, India’s ‘Silicon Valley’, to the Gulf taking advantage of its newly-launched operations to the southern Indian city.
Key officials of the 100 per cent state-owned airline also predicted the new service to result in a big rise in tourist traffic between the two countries and revealed plans for more destinations in India, including Mangalore and Ahmedabad.
The five-times-a-week flight between Muscat and Bangalore, operated by Boeing 737-700 aircraft, leaves Muscat every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Saturday, and Sunday at 9pm and arrives in Bangalore at 1.50am. The return flight, on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday, departs Bangalore at 2.50pm, landing here at 4.40pm. Balushi said besides “very cheap introductory offers”, the airline had also worked out special holiday packages in cooperation with hotels in Oman to woo tourists from the Karnataka state, of which Bangalore is the capital, to the Sultanate.
22/06/08 Ravindra Nath

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Categories: Foreign Jun 2008