Originally Posted by
Mr Mac
Not seen a post on here before for the above carrier and I had not flown with them before but came down from Manchester via Munich with them on Wednesday evening with a colleague.
They code share with Lufthansa and I have to say I was pleasantly surprised. The inflight entertainment is ok but far short of EK ICE, but food and beverages were both good and Muscat airport is very nice and not as busy as DXB. Also should mention the price is half of EK fair on the route. The A/C was a two class 787 and seats were comfortable and 4 windows to watch the world go by which were not closed at night. Flight in our cabin was about half full.
I am back up to Manchester with them and LH next month as Mrs Mac is coming down for a break after our business is concluded in the Gulf so will update after that.
Lufthansa business is standard European 3 seats with middle blocked out but service was good and a light meal was also good. Aircraft was Airbus 319 and full. Munich was its usual efficient self and is the airport I see most of the other being Manchester T1 which we will just gloss over and the lounge they used Aspire, should be called uninspired. They charge extra for Prosecco at around £7 a glass and Champagne you have to buy the bottle at £40. I only know this courtesy of my colleague who is here with me now who flew down to Munich last weekend and asked for a glass. Needless to say she declined and said the whole place was not a great experience.
If I was London based I would look at Oman Air them for routes to Oman or further East as they dropped Manchester pre Covid.
Cheers
Mr Mac
Prior to COVID they operated into Manchester from Muscat on their own metal .
Its currently one of a very few remaining suspended ( Athens, Casablanca and Singapore are others)
They have an interesting range of codeshare partnerships crossing the alliances including Qatar, BA, Lufthansa and AFKL.
Currently they are operating several flights on behalf of Qatar utilising their A330 aircraft ( not as good a soft product as their Dreamliners) filling for that carriers A350 problems and this “may be “ the reason why Manchester in particular hasn’t yet be restored .
Shame really as Milan and Munich were restored pretty quickly.
Also a shame as they also offered good connections into Pakistan from Manchester
All that said the Omani authorities were very slow in reopening their borders as COVID subsided.