Gulf Air sees increased bookings for summer

Gulf Air is all geared up to meet the peak summer rush with many of its routes already witnessing increased bookings during the upcoming summer months. The airline has received encouraging bookings to many of its popular summer destinations in Europe, the Far East and the Indian subcontinent. Last month alone, it witnessed a load factor of over 75 percent across the network with some sectors registering above 95 percent. Gulf Air’s CEO Samer Majali said: “Though we have been going through some tough times, due to combinations of several unprecedented regional and economic factors and closure of some profitable routes due to the security situation and travel bans by several countries, we have been working hard to serve our customers with continuous improvement to our quality of service and products. And this has reflected in the encouraging bookings the airline is witnessing on several sectors on its network for the summer season.” Over the past two years, Gulf Air has embarked on an aggressive revamping of its products and services that have received excellent feedback from customers leading to winning a few awards such as the best “family friendly airline” award twice from US-based publications and the “best cabin crew” ranking from an IATA survey. Gulf Air now operates a very young fleet with an average age of just 5.2 years. In addition, Gulf Air has recently opened its fully renovated Falcon Gold lounge at Bahrain International Airport that features for the first time, private sleeping rooms, a cigar lounge and shower rooms with hotel-style towels and luxury brand toiletries and amenities, besides a fully equipped modern business center and a family lounge area with a Sky Nanny in attendance and a gaming room equipped with Xbox and PlayStation units. A similar lounge is also available in London Heathrow Airport Terminal 4 and in Dubai Airport for premium passengers. From Arab News