{"id":23690,"date":"2025-04-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/23690\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T11:59:42","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T11:59:42","slug":"oman-air-launches-direct-flights-to-amsterdam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/23690\/","title":{"rendered":"Oman Air launches direct flights to Amsterdam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.omanair.com\/en_om\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oman Air<\/a> has announced the launch of direct flights between Muscat and Amsterdam, adding the Dutch destination to its growing list of European routes.<\/p>\n<p>The national carrier will operate four weekly flights between Muscat and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.schiphol.nl\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amsterdam Schiphol International Airport<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The new route was announced during a signing ceremony attended by <a href=\"https:\/\/services.omanair.com\/gbl\/en\/PressRelease\/oman-air-appoints-con-korfiatis-as-new-ceo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Con Korfiatis, CEO of Oman Ai<\/a>r, and <a href=\"https:\/\/news.schiphol.com\/pieter-van-oord-new-ceo-royal-schiphol-group\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pieter van Oord, CEO<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.schiphol.nl\/en\/schiphol-group\/?_gl=1*kkr0gd*_up*MQ..*_ga*MTU3NjIwMzU0MS4xNzQ0NzMyNjc5*_ga_SY55X9B9Q6*MTc0NDczMjY3OC4xLjEuMTc0ND\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Royal Schiphol Group<\/a>. The event took place as part of the state visit of <a href=\"https:\/\/fm.gov.om\/about-oman\/state\/head-of-state\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">His Majesty Sultan Haitham bin Tarik<\/a> to the Kingdom of the Netherlands.<\/p>\n<p>Con Korfiatis expressed his pride in launching the new route to Amsterdam, noting that the service will help create long-term opportunities for tourism and trade exchange.<\/p>\n<p>Pieter van Oord welcomed Oman Air\u2019s launch of direct flights between Amsterdam and Muscat, describing it as a milestone in strengthening relations between the two friendly countries and facilitating travel in both directions.<\/p>\n<p>Flights between Muscat and Amsterdam will initially operate during the summer season using the airline\u2019s latest Boeing 787-9 aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>The route will offer passengers convenient access to Muscat and more than 40 other destinations within Oman Air\u2019s network, including Thailand, Zanzibar, Indonesia, India and Malaysia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The national carrier will operate four weekly flights to and from Muscat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23691,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,116],"tags":[295],"class_list":["post-23690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-posts-and-videos","category-trade-news","tag-netherlands-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23690"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32941,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23690\/revisions\/32941"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}