Increased Frequencies and New Destinations in Gulf Air's Winter Schedule

Customers of Gulf Air will be able to benefit from increased frequencies to a number of key cities in the Middle East, Far East and Indian Sub Continent as well as new point-to-point services to two new destinations from Bahrain with the 2005/06 winter schedule, which began on today, 30 October.

Effective 30 October there are two additional flights per week from Bahrain to Bangalore and Chennai and five more flights per week to Karachi.

Meanwhile double daily flights are introduced to Mumbai.

Out of Muscat, Bangkok will now be served by an additional four flights per week and daily flights to Dubai are being re-introduced.

The main highlights to the winter schedule however are the new services from Bahrain to Dublin and Bahrain to Johannesburg, which commence on 2 December.

Operated by Airbus A330 aircraft, Dublin becomes Gulf Air’s seventh destination in Europe and is in addition to the daily services to London Heathrow, Frankfurt, Paris and Athens and four days a week services to Istanbul and Larnaca.

The new Dublin service will commence with three flights per week on Wednesday, Friday and Sunday with timings designed for onward connections to the Far East and Australia.

Johannesburg, which becomes Gulf Air’s 46th destination in 32 countries, is back on-line after an absence of more than seven years.

The service will begin with three flights per week on Monday, Wednesday and Friday from Bahrain and every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday from Johannesburg.

Flights from Johannesburg will also provide connectivity onwards to Hong Kong, Manila, Bangkok and Istanbul and a number of other destinations in Gulf Air’s extensive network.

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