The company has registered a growth of 21 per cent compared to the 2016 figures, with an average of more than 12,000 passengers per day, with Fridays recording more than 18,000 passengers.
During the last survey carried out by Mwasalat in early 2017, the percentage of Omani passengers reached more than 40 across all routes.
The Ruwi-Ma’abela route topped the number of passengers in Muscat with more than 1.6mn passengers, followed by the Ruwi-Wadi Kabir route (more than 700,000 passengers), the Ruwi-Amerat route (more than 600,000 passengers), the Al Khoudh-Sultan
Qaboos University-Burj Sahwa route (more than 400,000 passengers), and the Ruwi-Muttrah-Al Alam Palace route (more than 300,000 passengers).
The Ruwi-Wadi Adai route saw more than 200,000 passengers being transported and the Ma’abela Station-Southern Ma’abela route had more than 82,000 passengers.
The total number of passengers being transported in Muscat stood at 4,212,189. The total number of passengers carried in other parts of the country and Dubai in the UAE stood at 304,340. At the end of October, Mwasalat signed agreements to purchase 98 buses. Of these, 33 will be delivered this month.