Oman Air, the national carrier of Oman, successfully participated in the world’s largest tourism trade fair, ITB Berlin, last week. In addition to celebrating its dynamic program of fleet and route expansion, the airline also celebrated its fourth consecutive Media Awards for German media.
The airline has exhibited at ITB Berlin for the past 10 years. The event has been an important venue for Oman Air to showcase its growing network and award-winning products and services as well as making and renewing relationships. With a growing presence in Europe and increased frequencies on European routes announced in 2016, there was significant interest from both trade and consumer visitors at the show.
While at ITB Berlin, Oman Air promoted its recent developments and future expansion plans. At the end of 2016, Oman Air introduced its first destination in China, Guangzhou and the commencement of a four-times-a-week flight to Najaf, Iraq, in November. Network developments are continuing apace in 2017 with a revised flight agreement with the government of India resulting in increased frequencies to five of Oman Air’s 11 Indian destinations and news of a new four-times-a-week flight from Muscat to Nairobi, Kenya, to be launched at the end of March this year.
Paul Gregorowitsch, Oman Air’s CEO, said: “ITB Berlin is the ideal stage for us to promote Oman Air to a huge trade and consumer audience and to highlight our award-winning service, growing network and world class fleet. We are continuing with our ambitious expansion plans in 2017 with three new additions to the fleet already. The latest aircraft is the Boeing 787 Dreamliner which joined the fleet on Feb. 23. Two new 737-800 were added to the fleet in January and February this year. In addition, a new Dreamliner B787-9 will be joining Oman Air’s fleet in April.”
Oman Air’s Media Awards winners were announced at a reception held at the airline’s stand at ITB Berlin. Building on the success of the previous Media Awards, a panel of experts recognized the best articles on Oman from an impressive number of entries from journalists and bloggers in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

Source: Arab News