OMAN. TAV Airports subsidiary TAV Operation Services has won a tender to operate a private passenger lounge at Muscat International Airport’s new terminal building for a period of 10 years.
The 3,050sq m lounge will be operated under the Primeclass brand and will feature a dedicated shopping hall, a spa centre and suites.
Muscat Primeclass Lounge will have a seating capacity of 550 and is expected to serve 250,000 passengers annually. It is scheduled to become operational in 2017.
TAV Operation Services General Manager Ali Bora İşbulan said the company was serving more than 2.5 million passengers at its lounges per year, and outlined growth plans. “In addition to the Nairobi Turkish Airlines Star Alliance Lounge opened last month, we will be operating new passenger lounges at Washington Dulles International Airport and Frankfurt Airport Terminal 2,” he said. “We are planning to add 30 more passenger lounges into our business portfolio at the airports which are not operated by TAV.”
İşbulan said the company had growth plans in Germany, France, England, Switzerland, Belgium, and Italy, and was planning to launch new passenger lounges in Africa and the US. “Furthermore, our business talks and negotiations are continuing at various cities in the US, namely Chicago, Dallas, Denver, San Francisco, Boston and Los Angeles,” he added. “Our company can also become a passenger lounge operator in Canada, Chile and Mexico.”
Muscat Primeclass Lounge will be open to passengers of contracted airlines, TAV Passport and Primeclass Lounge Card holders and other private passenger lounges’ members.
TAV said it had placed the highest bid among the seven companies that joined the tender in order to win the operating rights. It will become the 40th passenger lounge in TAV’s portfolio, which spans eight countries.
