It’s Oman Air, Not Omar Air.

When I was in Paris, a few hours before boarding Omar, I mean Oman Air, I had so many doubts. I started to think why I even bought the tickets. What is Oman Air? I will spend 15hours above ground and 14 of them are inside the infamous cheap airplane. There will be children running around, 1 small screen at the front for everybody in the economy class. I would be suffering the whole time! Why did I buy those tickets? Why was I too tight on spending my budgets? Gosh!!

I arrived at the airport with 45minutes behind my schedule and with two luggages; I went straight to terminal 2A. I saw the name “Oman Air” at the nearest two counters next to some counters with tons of people in the line. “Not so many people in Oman Air.. Small company...” I thought to myself. I also noticed they put blue carpet in their line, “They are really desperate to attract clients…” I said with a grin. As I was getting nearer, I saw the word “1st class” on the screen, “Ups, wrong line” so I went to the counter next to it, this time, it was “Business class” attached at the front. I uttered “Ups, wrong again” with a silly giggle, the woman at the counter heard me and she point to the side. The counters with tons of people at the front are also Oman Air... That’s the Economy Class…

At the line there are a lot of Indians and a couple of French (they seem to stand out from the rest of the heard...) I started to think if the country this airline belongs to is an Indian country… With these people in the line, I can already foresee my future...

I went straight for the tax free zone to buy some chocolates for my family. I gave my passport at the only passport checker counter available and the officer took it slackenly before continuing to play with his iphone. I then passed the one and only security check point where I took a photo of the officer whose duty is to monitor what’s inside people’s luggage and he was also enjoying a FIFA match game through his iphone:

its blurry, well, i took it while acting as if im on the phone..

What’s inside the airplane is totally unexpected, here’s some photo to do the talking:

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a usb connector and a 3mm jack

Just like MAS

But they have keyboard with joystick at the back!

They have Economy class Menu!

And if u get lucky, u can have a 1st class comfort with ur economy class ticket

Internet on board, the first..

View of Oman

They use foreign stewardess (like Thailand) and they wear that hat when we've landed in Muscat

Before boarding Oman Air, I was not even sure whether it’s Omar or Oman Air, or the country I’ll be visiting for the transit. When people asked me, I just said, it’s Omar on Oman Air and the transit is somewhere in the Arab countries. I was that naïve.

How ignorant I was, Oman is the name of its country and Muscat (not Moscow) is where my transit is, which the capital city of Oman is. I learned a lot, well that’s because I didn’t know much before..

The heat in Muscat was unbearable. The minute I went out, I thought I was next to a machine but even when im down on the ground heading towards the bus, the heat was still there. It was not the sun, no, not like in Msia where the sun tells u it’s hot or not, in Muscat, the condition is the same as we’re in a microwave; it’s the air that’s heating us up.

Inside the airport, I thought I wouldn’t meet any Msian, how wrong I was as I ended up with groups of Msian, also waiting for the same airplane after their Umrah. I get to talk with some folks and share our stories.

I continue my journey back to Msia in the lovely plane of Oman Air, sitting next to Anand, a UK student whom I found to be interesting and easy-going.

In KLIA, I didn’t waste my time to get my first MILO ICE from their KFC before boarding back to Penang. I met another interesting person who told me that anyone can do a research, no need for a good educational background to give a presentation in an international forum.

I landed in Penang at about 1.25am.

The conclusion of my trip is, i saved about RM1000 compared to MAS with a longer trip but not a less comfortable one. i hope this article opens ur mind towards Oman Air.