MUSCAT: The Oman Aviation Group on Wednesday revealed a master plan to launch the Muscat Airport City that is expected to grow the country’s aviation sector.
Muscat Airport City consists of five main areas:

1. Muscat Airport Free Zone, which occupies an area of 3.3 million square metres devoted to light industries and storage activities for air freight, e-commerce, manufacturing and packaging of national products, in addition to aviation equipment, office spaces, an integrated service delivery station and public facilities which are available to serve the users of the airport.
2. A 200,000 square metre logistics portal, an area designated for air freight services and logistics, which includes the air freight building at Muscat Airport.
3. A business portal, which is a mixed-use project in an area of more than 1.1 million square metres and contains spaces designated for the office units of airlines and related economic sectors.
4. An aviation portal in the city of Muscat Airport, which includes the passengers’ terminal area and the location of the previous air freight buildings in an area of 166,000 square metres. This portal will host aviation, cultural and social activities, innovation centres for the aviation sector and a specialised emergency hospital serving the sector in accordance with global aviation safety regulations, and supporting social services. The project is being developed in cooperation with the national economic sectors that contributed to the building of the aviation sector ecosystem during the previous era, and through new investments. It will be assigned to the private sector and SMEs.
5. The hospitality portal, which occupies an area of 192,000 square metres, includes hospitality, duty-free shops, offices for travel companies and hotels for travellers or short-term visitors.