On 20 August 2026 Oman Air and SalamAir each announced a chief executive change. Oman Air said Con Korfiatis will step down on 1 September 2026, with Nasser Al Sharji taking over, while SalamAir confirmed Engineer Yaqoob bin Saif bin Hamoud Al Kiyumi will succeed Adrian Hamilton‑Manns as CEO from 1 October 2026.
During Korfiatis’s tenure Oman Air’s net losses roughly halved from 103 million Rials (US$268 million) in 2023 to 52.2 million Rials (US$135.8 million) in 2025, and the carrier recorded its first positive EBITDA in fifteen years, 3.2 million Rials (US$8.3 million) in 2025.
