Saturday 22 / March / 2025
Muscat: SalamAir, Oman's first low-cost carrier, has announced that it will permanently reinstate its Salalah-Sohar route from March 29, 2018.
The new flight schedule was tailor-made to allow guests to travel between the two cities over the weekend at convenient timings.
Flight tickets start at OMR21 one-way. Flying twice weekly, SalamAir's outbound trips from Salalah International Airport will depart at 3:45 pm on Thursdays and Saturdays, arriving in Sohar at 5:25 pm, while return flights from Sohar depart at 6:15 pm and reach Salalah at 7:55 pm.
Captain Mohamed Ahmed, SalamAir CEO, said, "Our goal has always been to make travelling easier and more convenient. By reinstating our direct Salalah-Sohar route, we have reduced the journey by more than two hours. Our guests asked us for better timings; this was not possible in the past due to some night limitations, but I would like to thank both Oman Airports and Public Authority for Civil Aviation (PACA) for their extra effort to eliminate these limitations and approve our new convenient schedule."
SalamAir was the first airline to operate from Sohar when they launched the route in July 2017, to cater to tourists from Al Batinah who wanted to enjoy the cooler weather in Salalah during the Khareef season.
Captain Mohamed also explained that SalamAir plans to now increase the frequency of its flights from weekend to daily flights, during the Khareef season.
