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Oman Air is looking to order aircraft to replace aging planes and serve more routes for the national carrier, CEO Con Korfiatis told Reuters on Sunday. Korfiatis did not disclose any deal timeline or number of planes, but said he was looking at narrowbody jets with lay-flat beds that appeal to premium passengers and can profitably carry fewer travellers than a widebody jet on long-haul routes, such as Kuala Lumpur and Istanbul. “Something we’ve done in the last couple of years that we weren’t doing in the past is long-haul flights with narrowbody aircraft,” the CEO told Reuters on the sidelines of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) Annual General Meeting in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. “We see an opportunity to serve the market with this product.” The carrier was thrust into the limelight in March when Oman and Saudi Arabia offered alternative travel routes to tens of thousands of people in the Gulf trying to escape Iranian airstrikes following the US-Israeli war on Iran. Oman Air needed to accommodate about four to five times the normal number of passengers during the crisis. “To have that many people come across the border for flights, it certainly operationally challenged us in […]
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