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Press Releases 2008

Oman Air’s Sindbad Achieves A prestigious International Award

Date: 5 Apr 2008

Oman Air achieved the third “FFP Innovation Award” at the annual Frequent Flyer Conference held on 11 March 2008 in Istanbul Turkey. Airline Information in conjunction with their partner Global Flight, organized the voting for the "FFP Innovation Awards". FFP 2008 hosted over 300 delegates represented by 75 international airlines and the top experts and suppliers in the industry. FFP spin-off strategies, new international accounting standards, dynamic reward management, emotional loyalty, mixed relationships with credit card partners, and the need for loyalty currency itself were just some of the issues discussed at the 4th annual FFP Conference "Taking Loyalty to Financial Heights".

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Oman Air Latest To Announce Onair Inflight Passenger Communications

Date: 3 Apr 2008

Oman Air today joined a growing number of Middle East airlines planning to offer OnAir’s inflight passenger communications services, which includes mobile phone and BlackBerry usage, as well as Internet access. From 2009, Oman Air passengers will be able to use their mobile phones and BlackBerry-type devices to send and receive text messages, emails including attachments, and to make and receive mobile phone calls during flights. They will also be able to use laptops and the seat-back inflight entertainment screen to access the Internet and use webmail and instant messaging. The OnAir service is based on Inmarsat’s SwiftBroadband.

OnAir’s service will be fitted on the seven new...

Oman Air Hosted The 2nd MRO Focus Group Meeting

Date: 27 Mar 2008

Recently Oman Air has hosted the 2nd MRO Focus Group meeting of the Arab Air Carriers Organization 'AACO' at Hyatt Regency Hotel, Muscat.

Eng Abdullah Burham Ba Omar Senior Manager Planning & Product Control at Oman Air’s Engineering and Maintenance Division stated that the focus group, which gathers AACO member airlines from the Middle East and North African region, aims at tightening relationships between members in the field of maintenance, repair and overhaul. Many initiatives have been...

Omani fans arrived at Bangkok : Considerable success for Oman Air campaign titled(Your Team Needs)

Date: 26 Mar 2008

Mr. Mohammed Al Shikely
SMM

The Campaign lunched by Oman Air, the National Carrier of Sultanate of Oman, under the slogan "Your Team Needs You" attracted masses of Omani residents who headed to the Thai capital Bangkok to support the Omani team during the upcoming match with the Thai team on Wednesday, March 26, 2008.

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Oman Air Grants Special Discounts To College And Universities Students

Date: 25 Mar 2008

Commenting on this scheme, Abdulrazaq bin Juma Alraisi, Senior Manager Sales said, the national carrier of Oman granted special discount of up to 25% on applicable market fares to the Omani students studying in the colleges and universities. This initiative reflects the national carrier's keenness to activate and support its distinguished role to serve the nation and the citizen. Also, this will positively contribute in alleviating costs of tickets incurred by the students. The offer will include all routes and destinations in Oman Air ever growing network.

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Sabre Renews Oman Air Contract with Air for Three Years

Date: 24 Mar 2008

Oman National carrier chooses Sabre to partner in exponential growth in local, regional and global travel markets.

Sabre Travel Network Middle East has today signed an expanded service agreement with Oman Air the sole national carrier of the Sultanate of Oman, to continue to host the airline’s inventory mainframe and to provide additional functionalities, including tools to manage group travel and limousine...

Oman Air Achieves Gold In Travel & Tourism Of Oman Web Award

Date: 24 Mar 2008

Oman Air Website has been awarded for the third successive year a Gold Award on Oman Web Awards, this year in Travel & Tourism, accomplishing success amongst 13 entries within this category. The website has contested against more than 170 websites overall with more than 24 different categories. This event has already been considered by the industry as one of the top award programs.

Mr. Habib Bhacker Habib, Head of Information and Computing, Oman Air said that Oman Web Awards was created to recognize excellence in web design and development skills. We as winner are...

Oman Air Organizes Its Annual Conference Under The Slogan “DREAM TO REALITY”

Date: 18 Mar 2008

Oman Air’s Annual Sales & Marketing Conference has been held at the Grand Hyatt under the auspices of the Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Ziad bin Karim Al-Haremi and attended by the Company’s Senior Officials, Country Managers, Sales Managers and Airport Managers.

In view of the airlines’ ambitious plans to expand to international routes, this two day conference is an opportunity to further discuss these plans elaborately. The conference include a workshop with outstation officials to closely realize their...

Oman Air Staged A Strong Presence At ITB Berlin 2008

Date: 16 Mar 2008

Oman Air said its partaking at the world’s largest travel fair in Berlin last week was a great success. The ITB Berlin continues to grow they informed. According to the exhibitors, sales with a value of just under six million euros were finalised at and around the ITB Berlin. The leading trade show for the global travel industry not only included more exhibitors than ever before this year but also attracted more visitors over the past five days than it did last year.

In this regard, Corporate Communications And Media of Oman Air informed that ITB-Berlin's first...

Oman Air Engineering provides Maintenance services to KLM at Muscat International Airport

Date: 12 Mar 2008

The Engineering Division of the Sultanate’s flag carrier added another achievement to their long list of accomplishments. Recently, the Division was certified to provide engineering and maintenance services to KLM Royal Dutch Airlines at Muscat International Airport, as a result of the successful completion of Audits associated with Safety and Quality Standards.

Speaking on this achievement, Eng. Ali Redha Mohammed Al Lawatiya , Senior Manager Third Party & Technical Support at

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