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Oman Air offers to pick up equity in planned 5-star hotel in Kochi airport

Oman Aviation Services today offered to pick up equity in the proposed five-star hotel project within the Nedumbasserry (Kochi) Airport premises.

"We are interested in joint sector projects and we will take an equity share in the Nedumbassery Hotel Project," Oman Air Executive Chairman Adel Bin Abdullah Al-Raisi said in Thiruvananthapuram.

Al-Raisi said Oman Air, which now operated four weekly flights to Thiruvananthapuram, had a proposal to operate daily flights from here, besides the proposed operations from Kochi.

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He said he had requested Kerala Chief Minister E K Nayanar to allow international airlines to operate their services from the Nedumbasserry Airport, in which the state government had 51 per cent equity. Nayanar reportedly assured him to take up this issue at the board meeting of the Cochin International Airport scheduled for September 19. However, a final decision would be taken by the Centre.

Al Raisi said it would take only a week for Oman Air to start its operations to Kochi, if a decision to allow international airlines was taken.

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