Oman Air to fly to Najaf in Iraq from next month

operations from September 15, the airline tweeted.“From 15th September, we will fly to Najaf, Iraq non-stop four times a week,” the airline tweeted.The airline also has opened bookings for Najaf through its official website.According to the rates shown on the website to Najaf, one way ticket will cost around OMR115.Najaf is a city in central Iraq about 160 km south of Baghdad.Oman Air is on an expansion drive and has added two new B737-800 aircraft from Dubai Aerospace Enterprise (DAE) Ltd.Under Oman Air’s expansion programme, launched late 2014, the national carrier of Oman is in the process of increasing its fleet size to 70 aircraft by 2020.At that point, Oman Air’s fleet will comprise 45 narrow-body aircraft and 25 wide-body aircraft, which will fly to an anticipated 75 global destinations.Since October 2014, Oman Air has received 12 new B737s, of which seven are the -800 variant and five are -900 variant. Each is currently deployed on routes from Muscat to destinations in the GCC region, in the wider Middle East and on the South Asian sub-continent.