Oman Air will operate a special round-trip flight from Muscat to Bangkok, Thailand, to bring home citizens who have been receiving medical treatment in the South-East Asian country.
The flight, with eight doctors and nurses from the ministry of health on board, is scheduled to bring back Omani citizens.
The Oman ministry of foreign affairs said that once this flight returns to Muscat, there will be no further citizens stranded in foreign countries who wish to come home.
However, should the need arise, Oman Air said it would be ready to repatriate Omani citizens once it receives official request.
Around 740 Omanis have flown back home in the past 10 days, marking the last flights operated to facilitate repatriating the Omanis who had wished to return home from abroad. Over 3,800 Omani citizens have been brought back home aboard special flights from different countries where they were stranded after global air travel was halted as part of precautions against the new corona virus pandemic.
In all its repatriation flights, crew-members and passengers are carefully briefed to follow all official requirements in order to ensure highest standers of health and safety.
Ground crews extensively clean the aircraft after each flight to ensure that they are safe for use by crew and passengers.
An Oman Air spokesman said: “We fly to serve the sultanate, and we are fully prepared to help people with medical conditions return to their homes.
“We are most grateful to the medical professionals who will be on this flight and attending to our citizens’ medical needs as we bring them home.”
