Services to Singapore, Sydney and Thiruvananthapuram were launched, Gulf Air thereby becoming the first Arab airline to fly to Australia.
The light-blue and peach Balenciaga-designed uniform was introduced. Gulf Air celebrated its 40th anniversary in 1990. The original Gulf Air livery consisted of a white fuselage with three stripes: maroon brown, green and red with a golden falcon on the three-striped tail fin. In 1988, Boeing 767s joined the fleet, and the airline launched service to Frankfurt, Istanbul, Damascus, Dar es Salaam, Fujairah and Nairobi, and resumed service to Shiraz and Baghdad. During their first year of operations, Gulf Air profits fell 30%, prompting the airline to drop its privatization plans. In 1985, Emirates, the startup national carrier of Dubai, began operating. In 1981, Gulf Air became an IATA member, and in the following year became the first international airline to land at Riyadh. The 1980s saw an increase in air travel and growth for Gulf Air. 1980s–1992: expansion Ī Gulf Air Boeing 747-100 at Charles de Gaulle Airport in 1986 Meanwhile, the airline increased the Boeing 737 fleet to nine and phased out the One-Elevens. In 1978, the airline doubled the Tristar fleet to replace the VC10s. The fleet comprised four Vickers VC10, three BAC One-Elevens, two Lockheed L-1011 Tristar 200s and five Boeing 737-200s. With leased Lockheed L-1011 Tristar and Boeing 737 aircraft joining the fleet, by 1976 Gulf Air had expanded its route network to include Amman, Amsterdam, Athens, Baghdad, Bombay, Bangkok, Beirut, Cairo, Colombo, Delhi, Dhaka, Hong Kong, Jeddah, Karachi, Khartoum, Larnaca, Manila, Paris, Ras al-Khaimah and Sana'a. The operating company was now branded as Gulf Air and became the flag carrier for the four states. The Foundation Treaty was signed on 1 January 1974 and gave each government a 25% shareholding in Gulf Aviation, which became a holding company. In 1973 the governments of the Emirate (now Kingdom) of Bahrain, the State of Qatar, the Emirate of Abu Dhabi and the Sultanate of Oman agreed to purchase the BOAC Associated Companies holding in Gulf Aviation.
In 2002, Qatar became the first nation to leave the Gulf Air consortium, followed by Abu Dhabi in 2006 and finally Oman in 2007, leaving the airline completely Bahrain-based, so they can make their own airlines: Qatar Airways, Etihad Airways and Oman Air respectively.Ī former Gulf Air Lockheed L-1011 TriStar in 1978 It was formerly a multinational airline owned by Bahrain, Abu Dhabi, Oman, and Qatar. Gulf Air has been certified with the highest 5-Star COVID-19 Airline Safety Rating, becoming one of just sixteen airlines in the world to currently achieve this top recognition and the third airline in the Middle East to gain the 5-Star COVID-19 Safety Rating. Gulf Air is the sponsor of the Bahrain Grand Prix and Bahrain International Airshow, where some of its fleet of aircraft sport liveries of the event. Gulf Air currently serves all its destinations with a combination of wide and narrow body jets of Airbus A320, Airbus A321, Airbus A320neo, Airbus A321neo and the Boeing 787-9 also known as the "dreamliner". In which London Heathrow is the most traveled place for Gulf Air. Its main hub is Bahrain International Airport. Headquartered in Muharraq, the airline operates scheduled flights to 52 destinations in 28 countries across Africa, Asia, Europe, Indian sub-continent and the Far East. Gulf Air ( Arabic: طيران الخليج Ṭayarān al-Khalīj) is the state-owned airline and the flag carrier of Bahrain was made in 1950 by British Pilot Freddie Bosworth as Gulf Aviation.
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