The airline staff members were caring and friendly, making the three and a half hour flight to
Trabzon comfortable.
Muscat: More than 11,500 passengers have used SalamAir's services to
Trabzon and Istanbul since its launch in July this year, the airline announced on Wednesday.
The airline will operate direct flights from Riyadh to Batumi, Tbilisi, Vienna, Baku,
Trabzon, and Sarajevo.
Current routes include Muscat, Salalah, Suhar, Dubai, Doha, Jeddah, Karachi, Multan, Sialkot, Shiraz, Kathmandu, Khartoum, Dhaka, Alexandria, Riyadh, Kuwait, and Abu-Dhabi, in addition, to the recently launched destinations Tehran, Istanbul and
Trabzon. Additional passenger services to compliment the customer experience on the home-grown airline include options for extra luggage, and seat and meal selection.
Emirates said: "The flight landed uneventfully in
Trabzon and passengers and crew were safely disembarked.
"A recovery flight has in the meantime been launched from Dubai to
Trabzon, which will fly all passengers onwards to Newcastle as EK35, with a departure in
Trabzon at 18:00 local time.
"In respect of the media reports published on 15 August 2016 regarding the building of a $1bn project in
Trabzon by Emaar, we would like to clarify that Emaar Properties is currently not building any project in
Trabzon city," the statement read.
Sharjah-based Air Arabia launched its inaugural flight to
Trabzon as the low cost airline's latest destination in Turkey.