​The number of passengers at Muscat and Salalah international airports has increased by 16.7% and 27%, respectively by the end of 2017, compared with 2016. With this the total number of passengers of these two airports has reached 15,562,886, according to the Centre.

The statistics released by the NCSI has said that the number of passengers at Muscat International Airport, including transfer and transit, reached 14,034,865 by the end of last December compared with 12,031,496 passengers by the end of December 2016. The number of flights was 114,258 by the end of December 2017 which is a 10.6% increase compared with 103,326 by the end of 2016. The number of international flights at Muscat International Airport, by the end of December 2017, was 102,148, which is an increase of 8.9% over 93,822 flights by the end of 2016, on which 12,824,294 passengers travelled which is also an increase of 16.5%.  According to these statistics, the domestic flights at Muscat airport increased by 27.4% to reach 12,110 by the end of December 2017, from 9,504 by the end of 2016. The number of passengers also reached 1,210,571 from 1,023184 which is an increase 18.3% during this period.

According to NCSI, the number of passengers at Salalah airport for both transfer and transit reached to1,528,021 by the end of 2017 from 1,198,596 by the end of 2016. The total number of flights at this airport reached to 14,444 by the end of 2017 which is an increase of 42.3% over 10,148 flights of 2016. The total number of international flights at Salalah airport reached 5,611 by the end of 2017, with 579,041 passengers, compared with 4,474 international flights and 431,271 passengers by the end of 2016, an increase of 25.4% in flights and 34.3% in passengers. The number of domestic flights through Salalah Airport reached 8,833 by the end of 2017, with 948,980 passengers, compared with 5,674 flights by the end of 2016, with 767,325 passengers, a 55.7% increase in flights and 23.7% passengers.

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