A poster on Airliners.net reported the following:
I've read on another forum that it has been reported in the Bahrani press recently that GF will only continue to operate the routes that it has agreed financial support from the government for and that BKK is not one of them. The thread lists the quoted cities as:
Abu Dhabi
Amman
Baghdad
Basra
Beirut
Cairo
Damascus
Dammam
Doha
Dubai
Erbil
Isfhan
Islamabad
Istanbul
Jeddah
Karachi
Kuwait
Lahore
London
Mashhad
Madina Munawara
Mumbai
Muscat
Najaf
New Delhi
Paris
Peshawar
Riyadh
Sanaa'
Shiraz
Tehran
So it's only two long haul routes would be LHR and CDG.
The thread i read though offers no link, just that 'I read in a Bahrani Arabic Newspaper'....
Can any of our ANET friends in the mid east shed any light?
So I'm missing; Addis, Aden, Bangkok, Colombo, Cochin, Copenhagen, Dhaka, Frankfurt, Kathmandu, Manila, Nairobi, Rome. Any others? I just can't believe some of them.
A few things that make me doubt this list and how old it is.
- A previous report by Gulf Air said they cancelled Basra but it is mentioned in the list above. Link:
Gulf Air Shelves Planned Basra Service Resumption | Airline Route – Worldwide Airline Route Updates
- Iran flights: yeah right...
- Recent increase in flights to some of these destinations. Why do that if you are planning to cancel them?
- New aircraft (2 x A321's) coming.
Too many contradictions here...