The 22.35 Oman Air flight turns out to be the last flight scheduled from Heathrow each day.
For the national airline I was disappointed that the In-Flight magazine was riddled with errors about Oman. The standouts were in an article about Bandar Khiran and its “placid bay” with “no sound pollution, vehicle pollution” . While the main photo was of Bandar Khiran; one of the others was of the residential area of Wadi Kabir (not a bit of water in sight should have been a give-away for the team responsible for the article ) and the other of Bandar Jissah – both many kilometers from Bandar Khiran - but both labeled up, Bandar Khiran
Oman Air Bandar Khiran
For any unsuspecting reader who relied on the “How to go” section – they would urgently need an accurate “How to get back” as the “How to go” section is seriously inaccurate !
Key factual errors were added for good measure about the Mausoleum at Qalhat ‘Bibi Miriam’. This was stated to have been built for a lady ‘Bibi Miriam’ – but was in fact built by her for her Turkish husband, who was the ruler of Qalhat & Hormuz at the start of the 14thC.
Despite all that I managed to get sleep and woke to the announcement that we were descending into Muscat .
Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque
Swinging round we approached from the East and descended past Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque to land about 45 minutes early .
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Matthew Teller // Sunday, 30 August, 2009 at '14:18' |
I’m also not impressed with Oman Air’s inflight magazine – a real missed opportunity, as I outlined in my blog post about good inflights:
http://quitealone.com/2009/07/08/gulf-of-understanding
- but the saving grace is that it’s better than the Saudi Airlines mag… and you should see Air Malta’s…
Like you I spotted that Oman Air was the last flight of the day out of LHR – but, then again, Heathrow has at least 25 flights scheduled to depart in the last 40 minutes of service (21:55-22:35 each day), so there’s no guarantee that Oman Air would actually be the last off the tarmac! Plus six scheduled arrivals after 22:30 too. No respite for the residents of Hounslow…
Excellent onboard service, I thought – for service, Oman Air was head & shoulders above Emirates, Etihad and the rest.
ynotoman // Sunday, 30 August, 2009 at '17:22' |
Mathew – the service was fine; they organized my food immediately after take off as I was ‘starving’ and very kindly left me asleep . The in-flight magazine is consistently poor – but those images should have spoken for themselves – but since they cant have , it was worth a shout.