Air services deal with India a constraint: Bahrain

Dubai: Bahrain’s Gulf Air says that the air-services agreement between India and Bahrain is a constraint as it looks to double its flights to the former of more than 100 times a week.
“We were actually looking for doubling the capacity that we have today,” Gulf Air Chief Executive Bjorn Naf said.
India on Wednesday permitted Gulf Air to increase the number of its weekly flights to 65 from 56, under a revised agreement between the two countries.
“The airline is not satisfied with the given capacity,” Bahrain’s Civil Aviation Affairs Under-Secretary Abdulrahman Al Gaoud said.
The agreement gives Gulf Air operating rights to Hyderabad on a daily basis. It also grants the airline additional rights for daily services to Kochi and Kolkata.
With air traffic between the Middle East and India rising on account of a large Indian expatriate population and as affluent Indians fly on business and on leisure.
01/02/08 Financial Express

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Categories: Foreign Feb 2008