SalamAir Starts Muscat to Copenhagen Flights via Baghdad

SalamAir put a new pin in Northern Europe on Saturday. The Omani low-cost carrier's first flight on its Muscat to Copenhagen service, routed through Baghdad, operated on November 14, 2026, opening a twice-weekly link between Oman, Iraq and Denmark that didn't exist the day before. Copenhagen is the airline's ninth new destination of 2026.

The route's structure is the interesting part. SalamAir flies the service under fifth-freedom traffic rights on the Baghdad to Copenhagen sector, which means a passenger in Iraq can buy a ticket for just that leg, Baghdad to the Danish capital, without traveling to or from Oman. A Muscat passenger rides the same aircraft through the Baghdad stop and on to Copenhagen.

The fares are published, and they're the low-cost part of the story. One-way Lite fares start at OMR 130.99 between Muscat and Copenhagen via Baghdad, and at OMR 99.99 between Baghdad and Copenhagen. Lite is the carrier's entry fare class, so those numbers are the floor a flexible or baggage-heavy trip gets built on top of, not the whole cost of every journey.

Steven Allen, SalamAir's chief commercial officer, framed the launch as network building rather than a single route. Copenhagen, he said, reflects the pace of the airline's expansion and its focus on commercially promising markets, and the service is meant to serve demand between Baghdad and Copenhagen while feeding passengers across the rest of the network. The airline ties the route to Oman Vision 2040, the national development program.

The carrier behind the route is young and growing on a stated schedule. SalamAir began operations in 2017 as Oman's low-cost airline, and it now flies 18 Airbus A320neo family aircraft to more than 40 destinations across the Middle East, Africa, Asia and Europe, with over 90 flights a day. Its stated plan is a fleet of 25 aircraft by 2028, and the Government of Oman completed taking a majority ownership stake in the airline in February 2026.

For Copenhagen, the route adds a Gulf-linked option that runs through Baghdad instead of the usual hubs, and for Baghdad it adds a direct European capital that Iraqi travelers can board without a connection. Twice weekly is a thin schedule, though. It asks travelers to plan around the airline's days rather than their own, and whether the route earns more frequency is the number to watch in 2027.

Tickets are on sale through SalamAir's website, its mobile app, its call center and travel agents. The first flight has landed; the route's real test is whether two flights a week can hold a market that three countries' worth of travelers are now sharing.