QatarA340 From Qatar, joined May 2006, 1599 posts, RR: 7 Posted (5 years 4 months 1 week 2 days 18 hours ago) and read 3596 times:
Quote: Bahrain Air, which is to commence operations from the first of next month, will be offering two flights daily between here and Manama. ... At the outset, the airline will fly to 12 destinations using Airbus A320 and Boeing 737-800 aircraft which have been taken on dry lease. The initial number of three aircraft is expected to rise to seven by 2010
This will take the total number of daily flights between DOH and BAH to be 14 or 15 daily flights using a number of carriers notably (QR, GF, UL, BA, IA, and now Bahrain Air) plus some other misc. carriers.
Its only a 15-17 minute flight--not bad. There are lots of family connections and business, trade connections between Qatar and Bahrain, so it will be profitable.
B747forever From United States of America, joined May 2007, 16574 posts, RR: 11 Reply 4, posted (5 years 4 months 1 week 1 day 9 hours ago) and read 3351 times:
It will be really many flights. Wonder if all carriers will survive on this route???
By air it is only 120 or so Kilometers, but by road, you have to pass through Saudi Arabia and take a detour which takes usually 500 or so kilometers of bad roads!
Quoting Ag92 (Reply 3): Thats alot of flights. Whats the pricing like?
The price used to be cheap, less than $100 for a ticket, but now-a-days they charge you for the trechorous"fuel surcharge" and now the price is higher.
Quoting B747forever (Reply 4): It will be really many flights. Wonder if all carriers will survive on this route???
There is increasingly huge demand for these flights.
Qatar is building a 40 km causeway over the Arabian Gulf from Qatar to Bahrain which will decrease travel time drastically and is due to open in 2011. I wonder if flights would be affected. I would certainly choose the road rather than plane.
TristarSteve From Sweden, joined Nov 2005, 3687 posts, RR: 34 Reply 6, posted (5 years 4 months 1 week 1 day 6 hours ago) and read 3250 times:
Quoting QatarA340 (Reply 5): Quoting Ag92 (Reply 3):
How long is it by road?
By air it is only 120 or so Kilometers, but by road, you have to pass through Saudi Arabia and take a detour which takes usually 500 or so kilometers of bad roads!
And if you don't have an Arab Passport you need a Saudi Visa for you and your car. For most people that is a massive undertaking.
Airxliban From Lebanon, joined Oct 2003, 4491 posts, RR: 55 Reply 7, posted (5 years 4 months 1 week 1 day 6 hours ago) and read 3248 times:
IA flies the route? Surely that must be a mistake...
Quoting TristarSteve (Reply 6): And if you don't have an Arab Passport you need a Saudi Visa for you and your car. For most people that is a massive undertaking.
Make that if you don't have a GCC passport you need a Saudi Visa for you and your car.
Pzurita1 From Greenland, joined Sep 2002, 1383 posts, RR: 16 Reply 9, posted (5 years 4 months 1 week 1 day 4 hours ago) and read 3187 times:
What about a ferry?
The distance between Qatar and Bahrein is only 35km at the narrowest point.
If there is so much traffic, I would have thought that ferry could be very economical and efficent.
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QatarA340 From Qatar, joined May 2006, 1599 posts, RR: 7 Reply 10, posted (5 years 4 months 1 week 1 day 4 hours ago) and read 3159 times:
Quoting Pzurita1 (Reply 9): What about a ferry?
The distance between Qatar and Bahrein is only 35km at the narrowest point.
If there is so much traffic, I would have thought that ferry could be very economical and efficent.
There are non at the time being, I always wondered too.
B727fan From United States of America, joined Apr 2004, 292 posts, RR: 0 Reply 12, posted (5 years 4 months 1 week 19 hours ago) and read 3050 times:
Quoting QatarA340 (Reply 5):
Qatar is building a 40 km causeway over the Arabian Gulf from Qatar to Bahrain which will decrease travel time drastically and is due to open in 2011. I wonder if flights would be affected. I would certainly choose the road rather than plane.
Just a minor correction, it is internationally recognized as Persian Gulf, not Arabian Gulf
Colombiano From Colombia, joined Oct 2006, 72 posts, RR: 0 Reply 17, posted (5 years 3 months 4 weeks 1 day 1 hour ago) and read 2751 times:
Actually They Started the Beirut flight few days ago but i am not sure if they can survive i mean with Gulf Air daily B737 flight there is not much traffic between beirut and bahrain specially now with the lebanese political situation anyways wish them goodluck
QatarA340 From Qatar, joined May 2006, 1599 posts, RR: 7 Reply 19, posted (5 years 3 months 3 weeks 6 days 15 hours ago) and read 2633 times:
Quoting B727fan (Reply 12): Just a minor correction, it is internationally recognized as Persian Gulf, not Arabian Gulf
Not in Qatar
Quoting BigTom (Reply 13): IC does fly between the two but as stops on a flight originating from India. I don't think they have the rights to fly pax from DOH-BAH or vice-versa.
They have pax rights to and from DOH.
Quoting OHLHD (Reply 15): This is one for the A340 lovers. ( Look at the flight time)
Actually, they say 45 minutes and 55 minutes, but the actual flight time is 17-25 minutes.
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