Oman Dreamliner Shorts...
You have to give credit to Oman Air, the airline is expanding at a slow but impressive rate... In 2016, the carrier introduced their second daily flight into London Heathrow and by 2017, launched their second UK destination to Manchester which continues to operate daily.
WY105/106 was introduced on 1st May 2017, the daily flight saw a mixture of Airbus A330-200/300s operating on the evening flight configured with just Business and Economy interiors.
With it being a year since Oman Air introduced flights into Manchester, the airline announced in February 2018 that WY105/106 saw the mixture of Airbus A330-200/300s replaced by Boeing 787-8/9s since 1st July 2018. Whilst Boeing 787-8s forms the majority of flights into Manchester, their Boeing 787-9 fleet tends to operate twice a week.
Currently, Oman Air operates 8 Boeing 787s, which includes 4 Boeing 787-8s and 4 Boeing 787-9s. Oman Air have 4 Boeing 787-8s and 2 Boeing 787-9s on-order.
Sierra Zulu is one of 4 Boeing 787-8s in service with Oman Air, delivered new to Kenya Airways as 5Y-KZJ on lease from BOC on 29th October 2015 until being withdrawn on 1st April 2016, before being wet-leased to Oman Air on 26th May 2016 from Kenya Airways and she is powered by 2 General Electric GEnx-1B engines.
Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner A4O-SZ on short finals into Runway 23R at Manchester (MAN) on WY105 from Muscat-Seeb (MCT).
Oman Dreamliner Shorts...
You have to give credit to Oman Air, the airline is expanding at a slow but impressive rate... In 2016, the carrier introduced their second daily flight into London Heathrow and by 2017, launched their second UK destination to Manchester which continues to operate daily.
WY105/106 was introduced on 1st May 2017, the daily flight saw a mixture of Airbus A330-200/300s operating on the evening flight configured with just Business and Economy interiors.
With it being a year since Oman Air introduced flights into Manchester, the airline announced in February 2018 that WY105/106 saw the mixture of Airbus A330-200/300s replaced by Boeing 787-8/9s since 1st July 2018. Whilst Boeing 787-8s forms the majority of flights into Manchester, their Boeing 787-9 fleet tends to operate twice a week.
Currently, Oman Air operates 8 Boeing 787s, which includes 4 Boeing 787-8s and 4 Boeing 787-9s. Oman Air have 4 Boeing 787-8s and 2 Boeing 787-9s on-order.
Sierra Zulu is one of 4 Boeing 787-8s in service with Oman Air, delivered new to Kenya Airways as 5Y-KZJ on lease from BOC on 29th October 2015 until being withdrawn on 1st April 2016, before being wet-leased to Oman Air on 26th May 2016 from Kenya Airways and she is powered by 2 General Electric GEnx-1B engines.
Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner A4O-SZ on short finals into Runway 23R at Manchester (MAN) on WY105 from Muscat-Seeb (MCT).