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Air India Express volition reconstruct nonstop formation connectivity betwixt Mangaluru and Muscat from March 2026 with 2 flights per week. The flights volition beryllium operated connected each Sunday and Tuesday, sources said.
Accordingly, the archetypal formation from Mangaluru to Muscat (IX 817) volition run connected March 1, 2026, with the instrumentality formation from Muscat to Mangaluru (IX 818) returning the aforesaid day. The 2nd formation is scheduled connected March 3, and the consequent flights connected March 8, 10, 15, 17, 22 and connected March 24, 2026, respectively.
IX 817 volition depart from Mangaluru astatine 9.25 a.m. and scope Muscat astatine 11.30 a.m. (Muscat section time). The flying hours is 3.35 hours.
IX 818 volition depart from Muscat astatine 12.30 p.m. (Muscat section time) and get successful Mangaluru astatine 5.25 p.m. The flying hours is 3.25 hours.
Air India Express past operated from Mangaluru to Muscat connected July 15, 2025, successful the summertime docket (of airlines) of 2025 with 4 flights a week, earlier suspending services.
Sources said that the summertime docket of airlines of 2026 volition commencement connected March 29, 2026. Later formation timings and schedules of flights operating to and from Mangaluru volition change.
After the airlines suspended its flights betwixt the 2 cities, Capt. Brijesh Chowta, MP for Dakshina Kannada, and Kota Srinivas Poojary, MP for Udupi-Chikkamagaluru, wrote to Union Minister for Civil Aviation K. Ram Mohan Naidu to intervene and to bash the needful to reinstate the service.
In his October 8, 2025, missive to the Minister, Mr. Poojary said that helium had received a practice from the Karnataka Janapada Parishath, Muscat, Oman Chapter, expressing heavy interest implicit the suspension of the formation services. It has caused sizeable inconvenience to passengers, peculiarly elder citizens, students, and moving professionals from Mangaluru, Udupi, Kasaragod (Kerala), and adjacent regions.
In his September 18, 2025, missive to the Minister, Capt. Chowta said, “...Close to 50,000 expatriates from the Coastal Karnataka portion enactment successful Oman, engaged successful some skilled and unskilled jobs. The Mangaluru-Muscat way has served arsenic a captious and uninterrupted lifeline, enabling them to question straight to their homeland without the further fiscal and carnal load of transiting done Bengaluru, Kannur, oregon Mumbai airports...”
“...Its abrupt suspension, without anterior consultation oregon due explanation, has near galore families successful distress...,” Capt. Chowta said.
