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Has anyone flown Oman Air through Muscat recently?

Yes, I was there last month on a QF award BNE-BKK (JQ) - MCT-IST (WY). Oman Air is a decent airline and reliable. I was in Y and spend 3 days in Oman including a side trip to Nizwa by bus. It's a beautiful country, friendly people and you would never know the neighbor countries are at war. They are swapping aircraft around, apparently using planes that would normally do intra-Gulf flights to add more flights to Asia and Europe. I got a newer 737 from BKK with an entertainment screen. The plane to IST was an older one with no entertainment for the 6 hour flight to IST, luckily I had some movies downloaded on my laptop. Oman is "reconsider your travel" so most travel insurance still covers you. Aussie passport gets free entry for 14 days.