Muscat International Airport Fire Service - Oman

A contract was placed by the Government of Oman in September 1970 for the construction of Seeb International Airport. The airport situated approximately 32 kilometres west of the city of Muscat, the capital of the Sultanate of Oman, was officially inaugurated on the 23rd December 1973.
By the end of the first year, approximately 87,200 passengers had passed through the airport. By 2006 this had risen to 4.7 million passengers; and in 2011 - 6,479,860 people passed through the terminal.
A consortium comprising of the BAA; Bahwan Trading Company and ABB Equity ventures assumed the management and development of Muscat Airport with effective from January 2002 on a 25-year concession; as part of the privatisation plan for the airport. The new management company was to be known as the Oman Airports Management Company (OAMC).
The name of the airport was changed to Muscat International Airport on 1st February 2008. The new name focused on Muscat, the city whose name is historically associated with this country.
This album features images of all the airport fire-fighting vehicles operational from the two fire stations on my working visit to the airport in 2008.