List of Oman Air destinations
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History
The airline's first flight occurred in March 1993 when it flew from Muscat to Salalah which was a domestic flight with a leased Boeing 737-300 from Ansett Worldwide Aviation Services. Months later, Oman Air had then performed its first international flight from Muscat to Dubai which also used the Boeing 737-300. By 1994, Oman Air had launched flights to Kuwait City and Karachi and later in 1994 it announced flights to Trivandrum in India and Colombo in Sri Lanka. Between 1995-1997, Mumbai, Doha, Abu Dhabi, Dhaka, and Chennai were then added to the airline's network. Gwadar, Peshawar, Al Ain, and Jeddah were then added between 1998-1999. Also between 1998-2000, Oman Air launched a flight to Kochi. Kozhikode was then added to the airline's network. However, in 2000, Oman Air discontinued services to Gwadar and Peshawar due to a strategic shift and even Al Ain was also suspended. In the 2000s, the airline expanded into Europe when the airline had launched flights to London-Heathrow and then launched a flight to Paris and Frankfurt and even Munich were added to Oman Air's European network and the airline then expanded operations in India with Delhi, Chennai, and Hyderabad including Jaipur and Amritsar being added to the network.
The airline also expanded into Southeast Asia with a codeshare agreement with Malaysia Airlines when the airline had started flying to Kuala Lumpur and Bangkok. The airline also launched a flight to Male in the Maldives. However, the airline had to suspend operations in Jaipur and Amritsar. During the 2000s, services to Kenya were axed and Kathmandu was suspended before 2010 and the airline withdrew services to Beirut and Colombo.
Due to financial reasons, many of the previous destinations (specially short ones, such as Iran) served by Oman Air, are being served by SalamAir, an Omani low-cost carrier.
