I had the chance to fly Oman Air business class a couple of years ago, and had excellent flights on them. The airline often publishes reasonable business class fares between Europe and Asia, and has a top notch hard and soft product. They're one of only a few airlines in the world to have Apex…
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I guess it won't be that bad. Look at Kuwait Airways or Saudia....should be similar in think. The problem should rather be, that they will most probably use for the premium route to LHR. If that's true, you wont be able to use the cheap CAI fares an ex CMB they rarely offer good prices in F.
Nevertheless, I also wanna try their F class, but rather to get the lounge experience. I remember that Sam Chui was told they just get around 20 Pax per week in the F-Lounge, which looks rather like a comfortable dining room with a fully customizable menu. So let's see how the new F lounge will look like and I'll give it a try.
@lucky..and regarding KU. Try the F Suites...but all i can tell you is that ex Asia BKK und KUL its just a C-Level Service including food(even they sell the seats a F). If you try it, better use a premium route like LHR oder FRA, as they maybe differentiate their service more on those routes.
I am a very frequent First Class traveller (haters gonna hate). I might give this one a try. I hope the food in their lounge and on board is worth it. Waiting for their new airport to finally open
Is the assumption that they'd fly this to LHR?
They're current longhaul destinations of BKK and MNL don't seem like theyd support luxury/business demand and I dont think they currently offer first to FRA/CDG.
Of course I'd love to see this open up to JFK, but I'm skeptical.
@Endre I'm not hating... but why do you feel the need to say that every time you post? Probably 50% of the readers of this blog are very frequent first class pax... What's your point?
You have never posted anything of substance other than "the food is good" so your credibility is nil.
Are you that much of a simpleton? or... could it be that you don't actually fly much (F or otherwise)?
Thanks for crediting me for informing you about this 🙂 Really love it when bloggers show great journalism integrity. I suppose you just stumbled on the article coincidentally after I mentioned it in the comments?
@ ZZ -- I had eight different people link me to this (in the comments section, by email, and Facebook). It's certainly not my intent to not give credit, though tipping the hat to that many people also gets a bit tedious. My general approach is to tip the hat when only one or two people tell me about something, but when I get a lot of tips on something, I assume it's widespread enough. So I really do appreciate the heads up and went ahead and updated the post to tip the hat to you, though hopefully you can also understand this from my side...
@Lucky, if possible, do a trip report about the city of Muscat as well as an airport review (or photos) and Oman Air F class. Looking forward to it!
Don't bother with muscat as its way to hot and makes travelling difficult.
Not alot to see however muttrah has a great vibe about it and then get out of muscat up into the mountains.
Flew Oman biz class from LHR to Kochi via Muscat in late Jan. Great service and seat which is a bit dated. New terminal at Muscat is scheduled to open on Mar. 25. Relatively small. Capacity is 12 million per year. Small size should make it easy to transit.