Gulf Air meet increasing passenger demand

Encouraged by the strong passenger growth witnessed across the network during the summer '12 season, Bahrain’s national carrier Gulf Air today brought forward its winter schedule beginning 10 September2012. The timetable comes with a range of new features offering more frequencies between Bahrain and key GCC, MENA and Asian destinations and upgrading fleet to certain destinations adding more capacity. The airline has also modified its flight timings on certain routes to avoid winter weather disruptions that may cause flight delays. 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 the winter. Therefore we have decided to bring forward our winter schedule that usually begins in late October by adding more frequencies and capacity on several routes 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 and more capacity while the Asian sector will also see more flights to meet the seasonal demand.” “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 fleet 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 in-flight 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.