Originally Posted by plunet

Agree that it would be lovely for Oman to honor the fare but with the seat fee at €0 the airline only has the fuel surcharge to hang onto to service the costs of the seats sold. It also depends on how many seats were sold, and potential loss of income verses selling them for sensible commercial terms. If it was a few 10s of flyertalkers they might have stomached it, but with the blogs having advertised this it’s probably the number of seats and scale of potential loss that influenced their decision.