Omani airspace improvements

Muscat: With the launch of the sixth sector, the Public Authority for Civil Aviation has made improvements in the Omani airspace and the communication networks supporting the new and current sectors. The expansion in the air sectors comes within a series of developments in air control, which were carried out by the Authority during the past period as part of its strategic plan which aims at ensuring leadership in air navigation services at the regional and international levels.
Before the launch of this new stage, the Omani air space had been divided into five sectors for the management of the air traffic namely the northern sector, the southern sector, the eastern sector, the western sector and the middle sector. The air traffic at each sector is controlled by two air observers in addition to one assistant air observers.
Due to the dense air traffic at the sector which connects Omani air space with the Indian air space and East Asian countries and as part of the Authority’s plan to increase the capacity of the air space, the eastern sector has been restructured and divided into eastern sector A and eastern sector B.