The Hindu Business Line : Air services agreement signed with Oman

Air India and Jet Airways will soon be permitted to fly passengers from India to Oman and Bahrain via Abu Dhabi, Dubai or Sharjah. The move was the outcome of the air services agreement between India and Oman which concluded here on Wednesday.

The agreement with Oman also allows Indian carriers to operate flights to Europe and North America through Oman, Bahrain, Dubai, Sharjah or Abu Dhabi. The agreement has increased the weekly seats that airlines of Bahrain can operate to 11,500 but has put a cap of 14 weekly flights offering 2,156 weekly seats to Mumbai.

In addition, the agreement allows airlines to operate a daily flight to Delhi, Thiruvananthapuram and Kochi offering 1,078 seats a week to each city. The airlines can also operate six times a week to Bangalore. Addressing a press conference, the President and Chief Executive, Gulf Air, Mr Bjorn Naf, said that with the successful conclusion of the bilateral talks, the airline would soon start operating a daily flight between Bahrain and Hyderabad. The airline also planned to increase operation to a daily flight to Kochi and Kolkata. Currently, the airline operates five-times-a-week to Kochi and twice-a-week to Kolkata.

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