A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed at the premises of the Public Authority for Civil Aviation (PACA) between the aviation authorities in the Sultanate and the Republic of India. The MoU is related to regulating the air transport services between the two countries.
The MoU stipulates for increasing the number of flights between the Sultanate and the Republic of India as the national carriers will operate weekly (16,016) seats. The Sultanate's national carrier will divide these seats into (14) weekly flights to the following cities: Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad and Chennai, (7) weekly flights to Bangalore, Calicut, Jaipur, Kochi, Trivandrum and Lucknow, in addition to (6) weekly flights to Goa.
The Indian airlines companies can utilize these rights as per the MoU from different Indian airports to Muscat International Airport and Salalah Airport only as the session discussed operating a number of flights from the Indian side to the future airports in the Sultanate once they get ready.
Source: Oman News Agency (ONA)