Gulf Air reveals winter schedule
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Airline boosts frequencies to key cities including Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Beirut…Bahrain’s national carrier Gulf Air has announced its new winter 2011 schedule.The schedule that will come into effect from 30 October offers more flights, increased frequencies, additional capacities, improved connectivity and modified timings on several routes in the airline’s network. Announcing the schedule, Gulf Air CCO Karim Makhlouf said: “Gulf Air is now a more dynamic and agile airline than ever before and the new winter schedule is a reflection of this.””Before drawing up the winter schedule, our commercial and network planning teams studied the travel patterns of our customers across our route network and their needs. The good news is that our ever-popular regional destinations in the UAE and Kuwait have seen tremendous increase in traffic indicating the need to augment our fleet and frequency.”In addition, our new and re-launched routes such as Addis Ababa, Colombo, Nairobi and Beirut have proved to be very successful with high load factors, endorsing the fact our renewed focus in the Middle East and Africa is working very well. The travel patterns also indicated that our customers are looking for better and newer connections and more convenient flight timings.”Gulf Air has also announced a special winter promo fares to several destinations starting at just BD 35 to Dubai and BD45 to Abu Dhabi excluding taxes that can be booked at gulfair.com or through the airline’s Worldwide Contact Centre.Further strengthening its Middle East and North Africa network, the new winter schedule offers as many as 14 additional flights per week to Dubai and seven additional flights to Abu Dhabi making a total of 98 flights per week. Besides offering hourly flights from 4 to 8 pm daily on the Dubai route, these flights also provide onward connectivity to over 40 destinations on the airline’s network via its efficient Bahrain hub.Gulf Air will also operate seven extra flights to Kuwait-a total of 35 flights per week- offering the second highest number of connections by any airline to this Emirate. The airline has also increased its flights to Beirut from seven to ten per week operated by an A320 with the additional three flights departing from Bahrain at 0115am. Gulf Air’s Istanbul flights have been increased from five to seven times per week with a split schedule of four morning and three evening flights to provide greater network connectivity to new markets such as Bangkok, Kathmandu, Addis Ababa, Manila, Nairobi, Colombo and Kabul. All Istanbul flights will be operated using an Airbus A 319 aircraft.
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