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Gulf Air has revealed a series of changes to its winter 2008-09 schedule which sees capacity increases in India and Europe in particular.
All these changes have been uploaded on major GDS systems. The main highlights are as follows:

CDG - frequencies increased from daily to 9 weekly flights effective Oct 29th. All flights will be flown using an A 332.
DEL - frequencies increased from 10 weekly to double daily i.e. daily A 343 + daily A 320.
DAC - frequencies increased from daily to 10 weekly. All flights are flown using an A 343. (FYI...this increase is already in place)
BOM - frequencies reduced from triple daily to double daily.
BKK - frequencies increased to 11 weekly nonstop flights from BAH i.e. weekly A 332 + 10 weekly A 343s.
HYD - capacity increased from daily A 320 to 5 weekly A 321s + two weekly A 320s.
CCU - capacity increased from 2 weekly A 320s to 2 weekly A 332s effective August 08.

Sal-e

This makes perfectly good business sense. All they need to do now is to ensure the aircrafts are in good working order.

midseal

not only that, also its imperitive that the crews are motivated to do them,,,,,, wow more india destinations. Is this something to brag about?, me thinks NOT. They make money which = salary paid out monthly. Makes sense to me!!! That a go GF, stratagize by all means.....

Sal-e

GF is not bragging. Increasing India destinations and frequencies is purely a business decision. In fact, GF is looking at making all the India destinations turn around flights for the crews.
I, for one, will not be enjoying crossing the Arabian sea/Indian Ocean evey couple of days. But if it means good business, I will simply do my job.

olbie

And here are the 319 routes:

Bahrain - Abu Dhabi
GF544/545 Daily
GF546/547 Daily

Bahrain - Dammam
GF101/102 Day 2
GF103/104 Day 37

Bahrain - Doha
GF518/519 Daily
GF512/513 Day 47
GF514/515 Day 267

Bahrain - Dubai
GF520/GF501 Daily
GF562/GF563 Day 46

Bahrain - Kuwait
GF211/212 Day 135
GF213/214 Day 145

Bahrain - Muscat
GF552/553 Day x4
GF556/557 Daily

Sal-e

Speaking of which, when do the A319s come in?

olbie

The 1st ferry team is on the way to Toronto as we speak! They will fly the aircraft to Prestwick first where it will spend a couple of days before flying to BAH. The 2nd one is expected next month.

Note that they will be used as spare aircraft till October when the winter schedule kicks in...

Flygulfair

sounds good!