Gulf Air announces services to three more destinations

Gulf Air will begin services to Isfahan from 30 October with three weekly services while services to Aden via Sana’a and Colombo will be from 31 October with five weekly services. Basra service will also be launched on 31 October with three weekly services. Addis Ababa will be served from 6 December with five weekly services. 

Gulf Air chief executive officer Samer Majali said: “The launching of these five new destinations further demonstrates our new strategy to identify and serve niche and under-served markets and, create potentially high yield city-pairs by providing direct service to Bahrain and beyond .

“While none of the Gulf carriers are serving Aden and Basra at present, cities like Addis Ababa and Isafahan are unexplored markets with Colombo being a popular tourist destination that is not linked from Bahrain since 2002. We believe there is a strong commercial potential in all these cities and we hope these routes also will be successful like the other six routes that we recently launched. 

“By launching these destinations we are not only enabling the people and businesses of these countries to connect to one of the fastest growing economies but also reinforcing our position as the undisputed leader in connecting the Middle East region.”

At a press conference today in Bahrain Mr Majali also released Gulf Air’s new winter schedule.

“The new winter schedule reflects one of the main objectives of our new strategy, to serve every regional capital with at least a double-daily service and generate a new market of travelers, who wish to conduct their business in the region and return home the same day,” said Majali. 

“Currently passengers can fly to the GCC countries of  Abu Dhabi , Dammam, Doha , Dubai , Kuwait and Muscat conduct their business and return home in the same day with a number of flight options. We have taken this concept further in our new winter schedule by offering three times a week same day return flights to Riyadh, Jeddah, Beirut, Cairo and two times a week same day return flights to Amman and Damascus in addition to the daily flights to these cities. The winter schedule will bring the number of flights in the region per week to 644 from last year’s flights of 528.”

Majali continued: “Another core element of our new strategy is to strengthening  our international network  and connect customers with seamless onward connections via Bahrain with least possible waiting time. As such we have made several improvements in our winter timetable; the frequency to and from Kathmandu have been increased from nine to 11 per week  while  new split timings have been introduced on Kuala Lumpur and Bangkok routes to provide better  connectivity for our Europe flights to connect to these two cities via Bahrain.”