Muscat International Airport guide

Muscat International Airport opened for scheduled commercial flights on 1 January 1973 as Seeb International Airport, adopting its present name in 2008. A new passenger building replacing the earlier terminal entered service on 18 March 2018, sized to handle wide-body aircraft up to the Airbus A380 well beyond the airport's current traffic.

Oman Airports Management Company, the state-owned operator that also runs Salalah, Duqm, Sohar and Ras Al Hadd airports, manages the facility as Oman's busiest by a wide margin. Muscat serves as the home base for both Oman Air, the national carrier, and SalamAir, the country's low-cost airline, and together they generate most of the airport's roughly 12.9 million annual passengers and 95,000 aircraft movements recorded in 2024.

Beyond its two home carriers, a network of Gulf, European and South Asian airlines links Muscat to destinations from Istanbul to Mumbai. A dedicated cargo terminal, built during an earlier expansion phase, handles freight separately from the passenger building, and a VIP terminal on site serves private aircraft.