Getting to Muscat without stopping in UAE

[reverserunlocked]

Chaps, need a hand here. Me and the other half fancy a week at the Chedi in Muscat later in the year. Problem is, in a previous life I worked for a shyster in Dubai who left me high and dry without a salary for the best part of six months (sounds familiar hey?) and I had to do a bunk leaving some fairly hefty bills behind with the bank and a car loan.
That was, wait for it, 9 years ago, but to this day when overflying the UAE my bottom clenches slightly at the prospect of a cargo hold fire warning or similair diversion that ends in me being hauled off by a unsympathetic man with a beard at immigration. Now, overflight is one thing but a fuel stop in Dubai or Abu Dhabi as most airlines do en route to Muscat is a risk I'm terrified of. All it takes is some idiot who got his driving licence on a horse and cart to bash the pressure hull with a catering truck and we're going nowhere, apart perhaps to jail!
So, how can I get to Muscat without stopping in Dubai or Abu Dhabi? GF via BAH? Egyptair? QR via DOH? Anyone know the schedules to this part of the sandpit?

[Fool 'n' Tameez]

How about flying direct from LHR? Take your pick of GF and BA.

[BahrainLad]

Er....LHR-MCT on BA has a stop in AUH first.

Via DOH on QR or BAH on GF would be your best bet.

[boiler]

GF have at least 10 flights per week direct (non-stop) LHR-MCT if I am not mistaken, so no need to go thru BAH.

[kumul1]

....Besides, if you take BA, they'll hit you hard for that second bag.

[runway in use]

Gulf Air has non stop to MCT

check with gulf air, as they have non stop flights to muscat, and i'm sure of that. check on their website. i guess its www.gulfairco.com . it shuold be useful for you.