Emirates Airline to use A380 on short hop to Oman

Emirates Airline will launch the world’s shortest Airbus A380 scheduled sector on July 1. The carrier will begin a double-daily A380 service to Muscat, the capital of Oman, which lies just 340km to the southeast. “Oman is an important destination for Emirates, and we will continue to look at ways to grow our operations in the market to best serve our customers,” Emirates’ divisional SVP-commercial operations center Majid Al Mualla said. The launch of the double-daily service will come exactly one year after the first deployment of a one-off A380 service that marked 25 years of Emirates’ operations to Oman. The carrier currently operates a 3X-daily Boeing 777 service to the Omani capital. Both A380 Muscat services will be operated in a three-class configuration, with 429 economy seats on the lower deck, plus 76 flat-bed seats in business and 14 first-class suites on the upper deck.<br/>