05 January 2013
SALALAH -- The new airport in Salalah, work on which is going on in full swing, is likely to attract more international flights after its completion next year. This would add value to existing operations of international flights to some destinations in India and UAE and Qatar Airway's four times a week Salalah-Doha schedule, which is to start operation in the month of May this year.
Flights to many new international destinations will operate directly from Salalah soon after the commissioning of the new airport. This was stated by Salim al Aufi, CEO of Public Authority for Civil Aviation (PACA), during a workshop which outlined the Civil Aviation Authority's vision for the year 2012. The event was held on Wednesday at the Hilton Salalah Resort.
Al Aufi also hinted at the possibility of introduction of at least two more additional Oman Air flights between Salalah and Muscat and confirmed the Civil Aviation Authority's commitment to introduce low cost carriers both in domestic as well as international sectors. He did not rule out the possibility of private sector's participation to achieve this goal.
"The issue is in our serious consideration and things are likely to be operationalised by this year or early next year. Many low cost carriers are operational to and from Muscat, hence we do not see any difficulty in extending them to new sectors," he said.
The new airport in Salalah, according to him, is poised to meet its 2014 deadline, as 50 per cent of its construction work is already complete. "We are planning to finish the construction and commissioning work by this year and hopeful of opening the airport for first passenger in early 2014."
Earlier, Al Aufi outlined the Human Resource vision of the PACA and laid stress on the development of national human capital. "Our vision is to equip our work force with qualities like leadership and people management, as also to send them for higher studies," he said.
According to him the number of employees who have joined the internal and external training courses and workshops in 2012 is 225. Salalah airport sent 32 employees from different sections like administration, co-ordination and follow-up departments, communications and navigation, and Airport Traffic Control to join 27 external courses and workshops.
Al Aufi honoured the airport employees for their distinguished services and gave special mention of Dr Khaled al Najar of the Met Section, who got doctoral degree in the field of atmospheric and space science from Pune.
He gave an outline of many other HR activities and said that the PACA was looking for a brighter New Year 2013 for the employees as also for the aviation sector in general.
SALALAH -- The new airport in Salalah, work on which is going on in full swing, is likely to attract more international flights after its completion next year. This would add value to existing operations of international flights to some destinations in India and UAE and Qatar Airway's four times a week Salalah-Doha schedule, which is to start operation in the month of May this year.
Flights to many new international destinations will operate directly from Salalah soon after the commissioning of the new airport. This was stated by Salim al Aufi, CEO of Public Authority for Civil Aviation (PACA), during a workshop which outlined the Civil Aviation Authority's vision for the year 2012. The event was held on Wednesday at the Hilton Salalah Resort.
Al Aufi also hinted at the possibility of introduction of at least two more additional Oman Air flights between Salalah and Muscat and confirmed the Civil Aviation Authority's commitment to introduce low cost carriers both in domestic as well as international sectors. He did not rule out the possibility of private sector's participation to achieve this goal.
"The issue is in our serious consideration and things are likely to be operationalised by this year or early next year. Many low cost carriers are operational to and from Muscat, hence we do not see any difficulty in extending them to new sectors," he said.
The new airport in Salalah, according to him, is poised to meet its 2014 deadline, as 50 per cent of its construction work is already complete. "We are planning to finish the construction and commissioning work by this year and hopeful of opening the airport for first passenger in early 2014."
Earlier, Al Aufi outlined the Human Resource vision of the PACA and laid stress on the development of national human capital. "Our vision is to equip our work force with qualities like leadership and people management, as also to send them for higher studies," he said.
According to him the number of employees who have joined the internal and external training courses and workshops in 2012 is 225. Salalah airport sent 32 employees from different sections like administration, co-ordination and follow-up departments, communications and navigation, and Airport Traffic Control to join 27 external courses and workshops.
Al Aufi honoured the airport employees for their distinguished services and gave special mention of Dr Khaled al Najar of the Met Section, who got doctoral degree in the field of atmospheric and space science from Pune.
He gave an outline of many other HR activities and said that the PACA was looking for a brighter New Year 2013 for the employees as also for the aviation sector in general.
© Oman Daily Observer 2013
