June 2017 Gulf crisis: The World vs Qatar

[sn26567]

Qatar Airways is planning to open a major hub in Oman

... located at Sohar International Airport, as a way to circumvent the blockade by other Arab countries.

The airline to start Doha – Sohar service on 08 August 2017 as the first step of establishing its ‘second hub.’

[quixoticguide]

Qatar Airways is planning to open a major hub in Oman

... located at Sohar International Airport, as a way to circumvent the blockade by other Arab countries.

The airline to start Doha – Sohar service on 08 August 2017 as the first step of establishing its ‘second hub.’

they only start with 3 weekly flights to DOH, a very little hub!

[sn26567]

Qatar Airways can now access limited Bahraini and UAE airspace after the nations approved a new route for the airline. The move follows a directive from ICAO to Gulf states, telling them to honour their airspace agreements with Qatar.

[EBAW_flyer]

BTW, Oman Air must be making quite a lot of money because of the ban: they are the only gulf airline with connections between DOH and the rest of the gulf (KWI, BAH, DXB, AUH, Saudi Arabia) via Muscat.
I flew DXB-MCT-DOH (787 and 330 now), and most of the pax from DXB connected to DOH.