Gulf Air releases its new winter schedule for 2011

Gulf Air has announced its new winter schedule 2011 and new improvements the Bahrain carrier has made.

The winter schedule that will come into effect at the end of October offers more flights, increased frequencies, additional capacities, improved connectivity and modified timings on several routes in the airline's network.

Gulf Air Chief commercial officer Karim Makhlouf said: "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."