Gulf Air to Expand European Flight Network

(24 Feb 2022)  Gulf Air has unveiled plans to expand its global network with direct flights to two destinations in Italy, another in France and one in the United Kingdom, in time for the summer holidays.

The national carrier of the Kingdom of Bahrain will launch 5 flights per week to Milan, two flights a week to Rome and two per week to Manchester from 1 June 2022.

Gulf Air's flights to Nice will commence on 2 June with two services per week.

Gulf Air Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner

Flights to Milan, Rome and Nice will be served with the airline’s new Airbus A321neo, while Manchester will be operated with Boeing 787-9 aircraft.

In addition to the new destinations launching during the summer season, the airline will resume operations to Mykonos and Santorini in Greece, Malaga in Spain, Sharm Al Shaikh and Alexandria in Egypt, and Salalah in Oman.

Captain Waleed AlAlawi, Gulf Air’s Acting Chief Executive Officer, said, “The new routes to our network is a testimony of the continuous expansion of Gulf Air’s network by adding Milan, Rome, Manchester and Nice. These new destinations have been on our horizon and as travel bounces back to normalcy, we knew it was the right time to launch our new routes for our passengers. Our network keeps adding popular boutique destinations that are favourite to many tourists and families in the Kingdom of Bahrain and the region especially as demand for travel grows in a healthy accelerated way towards the summer holidays.”

Gulf Air currently flies to and from Abu Dhabi, Amman, Athens, Baku, Bangkok, Cairo, Casablanca, Colombo, Dammam, Dhaka, Dubai, Frankfurt, Istanbul, Jeddah, Kuwait, Larnaca, London, Maldives, Manila, Medina, Moscow, Muscat, Paris, Riyadh, Singapore, Tbilisi, Tel Aviv and several destinations in India and Pakistan.