Gulf Air adds three more flights to Bahrain

Encouraged by the strong passenger growth witnessed across the network during the summer 12 season, Bahrain’s national carrier Gulf Air today announced three additional flights between Dhaka and Bahrain in its winter timetable that has been brought forward effective 10 September 2012.

Flights to Dhaka have been increased from 11 to 14 per week to meet the high passenger demand due to forthcoming Hajj, Eid and the winter holiday seasons. The new pre-winter schedule’s split timings and double daily flights will be a great advantage for Bangladeshis working in the GCC region as well as in Europe to travel between their workplaces and home country.

Gulf Air’s new pre-winter timetable comes with a range of new features that include more frequencies between Bahrain and key GCC, MENA and Asian destinations and upgraded fleet to certain destinations providing greater capacity.

Announcing the schedule, Gulf Air Chief Commercial Officer Mr. Karim Makhlouf said, “Following the encouraging passenger growth we witnessed during the summer, we foresee the demand to continue through to the winter. Dhaka particularly has seen excellent growth with high seat factors; therefore we have decided to add three more frequencies for this route and bring forward our winter schedule that usually begins in late October to facilitate our customers with better and convenient travel options.”

He continued, “Our leadership position in the Middle East is further strengthened in this schedule with additional frequencies while our ever popular Asian sector is also being bolstered with more capacity and additional frequencies.”

“We are encouraged by the strong support from our customers for whom we are a carrier of choice as we offer one of the youngest fleets with an average age of just 4.7 years, the best network of destinations, excellent connectivity to different market segments, consistent and high quality products, state-of-the-art inflight entertainment including the world’s first live TV, broadband internet and mobile phone services on long haul routes, and above all, a real value-for–money to our customers” Mr. Makhlouf concluded.