Article: What’s the Best Way to Fly from Australia to Europe in 2026?

[Tiki]

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.

 

[VPS]

Turkish Airlines is a great airline to fly with. Transit times are good, their lounge in Istanbul is the best I have ever been in for Business Class (plus you can visit their amazing Archaeological Museum inside the airport while in transit & their service on board is excellent. I have flown with them 3 times to Italy, Turkey & am using them again to fly to London in May instead of via Middle East.

and welcome to AFF

 

[prozac]

Turkish Airlines is a great airline to fly with. Transit times are good, their lounge in Istanbul is the best I have ever been in for Business Class (plus you can visit their amazing Archaeological Museum inside the airport while in transit & their service on board is excellent. I have flown with them 3 times to Italy, Turkey & am using them again to fly to London in May instead of via Middle East.

Welcome to AFF also @Gail S

I’ve not flown them yet, but the UL schedules appear to have improved with decent connection times in CMB (used to 10+ hrs).

There’s actually reasonable award seat availability also.

What’s the transit like? (Ignoring stopovers and the random hotel coughshoot we read about)

Also interested to know about on-board UL and onward bookings ex CMB.