Sohar Airport to receive first Qatar Airways flight

Muscat: Qatar Airways inaugural flight to Sohar Airport will arrive today. The Qatari airline will be the third one to operate from Sohar Airport.
“The first flight will arrive at 16.10 pm at Sohar and depart at 17.10 pm,” said Joe Rajadurai, Qatar Airways country manager for Oman. The new Sohar route will be served by Airbus A320 aircraft with 12 Business Class and 132 Economy Class seats. The three flights a week between Sohar and Doha will operate on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.
With this launch, the number of weekly flights to and from Sohar Airport will go up to nine.
Three of them are SalamAir flights to and from Salalah, three Air Arabia flights to and from Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and three Qatar Airways flights to and from Doha.