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Muscat – the capital of Oman – has an international airport, among the total of six in the Sultanate of Oman. Muscat airports have permanent surface runways, with one of them having a runway of over 3700 meters. Two of Oman's international airports are located at Seeb – the largest, and another at Salalah. The Air Expeditionary Force deployments to Seeb International Airport support the Operation Southern Watch. Its enhanced activities included deployments to Prince Sultan and Eskan in Saudi Arabia, Al Jaber and Ali Al-Salem in Kuwait, Al Dhafra, United Air of Emirates, Seeb in Oman, Al Udeid, Qatar, and Sheikh Asa in Bahrain. Muscat airports have no sound restrictions, airport curfews, and aircraft type restrictions. The task of the standard instrument departures is to route the aircraft over areas that are unpopulated. Muscat airports do not have any noise abatement procedures, primarily because they are situated farther from the developed residential and industrial areas. The government of the Sultanate is beginning to consider the environmental aspects of aircraft noise. An appropriate plan is likely to be formulated if urban development spreads towards the airport. Muscat airports enable to as to how to get in to Muscat. The main airport that ensures getting to Muscat by flight is the Seeb International Airport. It is situated 25 kms from the city's business district of Ruwi and 15 to 20 kms from the chief residential areas of Al-Khwair, Madinat Al Sultan Kaboos, Shati Al-Qurm and Al-Qurm. Muscat airports are the site where flights ply from all over the world - Aero Asia International from Karachi, Air Arabia from Sharjah, Air India from Abu Dhabi, Delhi, Mumbai, Air India Express - Kozhikode, Kochi, Abu Dhabi, Mangalore, Trivandrum, Biman Bangladesh Airlines from Chittagong, Dhaka, British Airways from Abu Dhabi, London – Heathrow, Emirates from Dubai, Etihad Airways from Abu Dhabi, Egypt Air from Cairo, Falcon Express from Karachi.
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