Muscat emerges as hub of private repatriation flights

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Oman’s capital Muscat is fast emerging as a leading airport for repatriation flights from the Middle East, at a time when the airspace of Qatar, Bahrain and the UAE is closed to commercial flights, Al Jazeera reports according to aviation tracker Flightradar24.

In a post on X, it notes that 30 per cent of all flights taking off or landing in Muscat were private jets.

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