Hi, I'm having problems accessing the manage my bookings page on emirates.com . Once I enter my booking reference and log in it comes up with my reservation details. When I click on the right hand side for example to change seats it loads to a blank white page. Does anyone have a similar problem or ...
Jump to postHas their been any news regarding who GACA have awarded the Saudi domestic air license to? I understand Gulf Air and Qatar Airways were both shortlisted as the final entrants. Who is more likely to get this license between the two?
Jump to postGulf Air, the national carrier of the Kingdom of Bahrain, has taken delivery of its first A330-200 aircraft fitted with a new "Sky Hub" that offers full broadband connectivity and live <acronym title="Virgin Express (Belgium)">TV</acronym>. The new Global Communications Suite built by Panasonic offe...
Jump to postHi to all, If anyone can help with our query it would be grately appreciated. On our upcoming flight from Manchester to Karachi we are planning to carry on the baby stroller onto the aircraft and store in the overhead bin. The length of the stroller is 114cm once fully collapsed. Is this going to be...
Jump to post</head> <body> <p> <a href="http://www.global-pia.com/piapak.asp"> <img src="http://www.global-pia.com/pkkdu_banner.jpg" width="600" height="81" border=0></a></p> <p>PIA 737 Skardu (<acronym title="Skardu (KDU / OPSD), Pakistan">KDU</acronym>) to Islamabad (<acronym title="Islamabad (Rawalpindi) - C...
Jump to postGulf Air yesterday took delivery of a 737-800 leased from XL Airways Germany for 18 months with a second aircraft due next month. It will mainly be used for Dubai and Karachi flights. Aircraft remains under German reg : D-AXLE <img border=0 src="http://www.gulfair.com/press/news/imgnews/New%20boeing...
Jump to postGulf Air is preparing to make an announcement about its plans for future growth at next month's Dubai International Air Show. The airline will outline the purchase or lease plan of new aircraft at the show. Acting president and chief executive Bjorn Naf revealed that the airline is in talks with Air...
Jump to postGULF AIR <img src="http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid225/pf2bf81afd1d8fd88622480be4edbb989/ea42b462.jpg" width="450" height="390" border=0> <img src="http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid224/p5ca981e26c898998dbef3d6fb95c83ab/ea8dd82e.jpg" width="311" height="450" border=0> <img src="http:...
Jump to postHeard Gulf Air are to wet lease some 737-800s for winter initially then for a period of six months to a year to fix some A320s and maybe to handle pilot shortage. Aircraft possibly, coming from Oman Air. <center><font color="#EEEEEE" size="1" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva"><A HREF="http://cardataba...
Jump to postGulf Air made its first flight with a Bahrain registered aircraft. Flight GF056, operated by Airbus A340 under the Bahraini registration A9C-LB, flew to Mumbai, India, on the maiden voyage under the command of Bahraini Gulf Air Captain Nabeel Al Khayyer. The re-registration process for the entire Gu...
Jump to postGF still operates the evening GF006 <acronym title="London - Heathrow (LHR / EGLL), United Kingdom">LHR</acronym>-MCT daily using an A330. The morning slot was sold to <acronym title="American Airlines (USA)">AA</acronym>. Perhaps they will take over the evening flight or <acronym title="Gulf Air (B...
Jump to postI know wikidpedia isn't exactly reliable but was just reading on there today stating that Gulf Air was to begin services to Manchester from Winter 07 aswell as to Shanghai and Zurich which has already been mentioned before. Can anyone confirm this rumour ? <acronym title="Gulf Air (Bahrain/UAE/Oman/...
Jump to postGulf Air has expanded its weekly flights to three key cities in Saudi Arabia. The airline operates now 14 weekly flights to Dammam; double its previous service. Flights to Riyadh and Jeddah increased to 10 weekly flights to each from 7 earlier. In addition, Gulf Air continues to operate two flights ...
Jump to postGulf Air is planning to launch part of its shares for subscription next year, it was revealed last night. It will allow private institutions, including Gulf companies, to buy shares, chairman Mahmood Al Kooheji said. With the government's support, the management aims to lead the company back to prof...
Jump to postWord going around that Andre Dose has handed in his resignation due to differences with the Chairman.
Jump to postFound this: I would guess they are being readied for <acronym title="Gulf Air (Bahrain/UAE/Oman/Qatar)">GF</acronym>. 1195 0 <acronym title="New Orleans - Lakefront (NEW / KNEW), USA - Louisiana">NEW</acronym> A321-231 N583NK for Gulf Air 1408 0 <acronym title="New Orleans - Lakefront (NEW / KNEW), ...
Jump to postThe A321 appears in parts of the new schedule eff 1st July yet nothing has been mentioned of it. Anyone know about this ?
Jump to postAccording to a freind Lufthansa is to start flights from Karachi/Lahore effective 29th October 07. No mention of equipment or frequencies as of now. Further details to be released next week.
Jump to postThe Executive Vice-President of Turkish Airlines, Orhan Sivrikaya, has asked the Civil Aviation Authority of Pakistan to allow the Turkish Airlines to operate seven flights a week from Karachi to Istanbul and back. “Even the Middle Eastern countries, such as the UAE, have liberalized their aviation ...
Jump to postRead from another board that <acronym title="Gulf Air (Bahrain/UAE/Oman/Qatar)">GF</acronym> has sold one of its morning slots at Heathrow to <acronym title="American Airlines (USA)">AA</acronym> for $30 million. Gulf Air used to have 4x daily freq (2x <acronym title="Bahrain (Manama) - Internationa...
Jump to postThose blue seats are infact Gulf Air's old business class seats taken from there A330 fleet before they were refurbished.
Jump to postAppeared in the <acronym title="Gdansk - Lech Walesa (Rebiechowo) (GDN / EPGD), Poland">GDN</acronym>: <a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_eesuX1DCPdg/RnTXU81HSiI/AAAAAAAAAGM/DMmfKUMFstw/s1600-h/gulfair.bmp" target=_blank>http://bp0.blogger.com/_eesuX1DCPdg/...GM/DMmfKUMFstw/s1600-h/gulfair.bmp</a> <br...
Jump to postJacobin777, hope to see your trip report up soon. Did you manage to take any onboard shots ?
Regards,
GF-A330
Gulf Air is all set to introduce a totally revamped flight schedule beginning 1 July 2007. The new network, based on a 'wave' model, offers as many as 588 flights every week in the Middle East with more non-stop flights than any other airline. The arrivals and departures have been scheduled in such ...
Jump to postany further updates regarding the A321, have they been flown to Bahrain ?
Jump to postYup they do favour the A319 with majority leased in from ILFC alongwith the A321s. Looks as though GF will be taking up the A321 aircraft from Spirit as their lease agreement is to expire soon.
Jump to postif u read the small print it does say proposed !
Jump to postThanks....saw that Spirit have 6 xA321s in there fleet with 7 on order. They must be getting rid of there older versions to GF
Jump to postI flew AirBlue <acronym title="Islamabad (Rawalpindi) - Chaklala (ISB / OPRN), Pakistan">ISB</acronym>-<acronym title="Karachi - Jinnah International (Quaid-e-Azam) (KHI / OPKC), Pakistan">KHI</acronym>-<acronym title="Islamabad (Rawalpindi) - Chaklala (ISB / OPRN), Pakistan">ISB</acronym> on there ...
Jump to postGulf Air are adding four A321s in the fleet under the new business plan w.e.f July. Does anyone know where these aircraft are coming from ? as there has been no update since.
Regards,
GF-A330
I'm due to fly out to Islamabad in a couple of days time and am planning to take quite a few pictures to devise a trip report on the 777, as I'll be flying with PIA i'm doubting the captain will give me permission due to all the media coverage about the EU ban. Anyway how should I word the request t...
Jump to postI'm due to fly out to Islamabad in a couple of days time and am planning to take quite a few pictures to devise a trip report on the 777, as I'll be flying with PIA i'm doubting the captain will give me permission due to all the media coverage about the EU ban. Anyway how should I word the request t...
Jump to postHeard they were supposed to start services with ex-Mahan Air A310 but PIA re-instated the lease agreement by extending it for a longer period to cover capacity shortfall (E.U banned A310s). Ababeel Travel, who are the appointed booking agent for Shaheen in the UK have revised the start date to June/...
Jump to postExcellent Karan, thoroughly enjoyed reading through your trip report of your GF sectors and all the wonderful pics !
Jump to postDid you take any cabin shots Jacobin of your flight sectors with <acronym title="Gulf Air (Bahrain/UAE/Oman/Qatar)">GF</acronym>, came across this new addition to the database with the F1 promo head rest covers..... <br><center><font color="#EEEEEE" size="1" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva"><a href="...
Jump to postI've heard <acronym title="Frankfurt - Main (Rhein-Main AB) (FRA / FRF / EDDF), Germany">FRA</acronym>, <acronym title="Sydney - Kingsford Smith International (Mascot) (SYD / YSSY), Australia - New South Wales">SYD</acronym> and <acronym title="Dublin (- Collinstown) (DUB / EIDW), Ireland">DUB</acro...
Jump to postRead off another board that the GF board of directors held a meeting on Sunday and it was decided to reduce the fleet size from the existing 34 aircraft to 28 aircraft, with an all Airbus fleet. Unprofitable routes will be suspended.
Jump to postSorry no, they just have the standard drop down TV's, what I meant was seat colour/style is similar to there A320s.
Jump to postIt would be good for AirBlue to get hold of the ex-Air Madrid A340 which is currently in storage at Bordeaux and has been since Dec 06. The cabin of this aircraft is similar to Air Blue's exisiting A320 fleet in the sense the seats are blue and each feature PTV's. Lets' see what happens..... <center...
Jump to postJust to clarify the 767s mostly have problems related to corrosion and I've heard rumours that 6x A330s are to be leased in to cover the shortfall. Anyone care to add ?.. i've just been checking out the schedules; GF9003 is due to land Dublin 17:45pm. Anyone in DUB confirm the number of 767s already...
Jump to postWork out which aircraft will be operating for each sector, go to seat maps on the <acronym title="Emirates (United Arab Emirates)">EK</acronym> website and pick your preferred seat. If you are already a Skywards member thats fine, if not sign up. Call the Emirates contact center for your country or ...
Jump to postJust to clarify <acronym title="Air One (Italy)">AP</acronym>-<acronym title="Columbus - Municipal (BAK / CLU / KBAK), USA - Indiana">BAK</acronym> has not been refurbished as of yet, since the EU imposed the restrictions. I can confirm only <acronym title="Air One (Italy)">AP</acronym>-BGG Boeing 7...
Jump to postAccording too AACO <a href="http://www.aaco.org/airlines_gulfair.asp" target=_blank>http://www.aaco.org/airlines_gulfair.asp</a> <acronym title="Gulf Air (Bahrain/UAE/Oman/Qatar)">GF</acronym>'s current fleet of 763ERs are all leased. From my understanding they were sold to Oasis International Leasi...
Jump to postSounds all so dramatic, whatever you had to go through !
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Just read from another site that Gulf Air are replacing the existing 9x 767s fleet next month with 9x A340s from Boeing. Apparently the 767s are going to Etihad for use by Etihad Cargo, as the lease agreement expires soon. Eight 767 F/O have already been transferred to the A340 fleet. Watch this spa...
Jump to postGulf Air, the national airline of the Kingdom of Bahrain and the Sultanate of Oman, has named Swiss citizen André Dosé as its new Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Dosé, an airline industry veteran with more than 30 years experience in the aviation business, will take office on April 1, 2007. "I am ple...
Jump to postThey've relaunched the site today. Easy to navigate and nicely designed.
http://www.gulfairco.com/index/index.asp
The Gulf Air board has made a decision on the appointment of a new President The word is that he is a Swiss, so guessing that it would be ex-CrossAir CEO Andre Dose who was one of the short listed candidates for the job.
Jump to postGary Toomey was spotted in the <acronym title="Gulf Air (Bahrain/UAE/Oman/Qatar)">GF</acronym> First class lounge in Bahrain last week. Apparently he was called in for an interview. Can anyone confirm. Came across the following from 'The Sydney Morning Herald' Off to Gulf? <TABLE BORDER=0 ALIGN=CENT...
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