Responding to the expanding customer base and huge demand for premium class from the Kuwaiti business community, Gulf Air is all set to increase its flights between Bahrain and Kuwait.

Beginning December 14, Gulf Air will operate four daily flights to and from Kuwait making a total of 28 flights per week, up from the present 21 flights.Gulf Air has also started operating three direct, non-stop flights per week between Kuwait and Muscat from the beginning of this month. With 14 code-shared flights with Oman Air, a total of 17 flights per week are now available for passengers travelling between Kuwait and Muscat.

"As the airline with the biggest network in the Middle East, Gulf Air is committed to providing better connections and more non-stop flight choices to its customers," says Gulf Air Vice-President Network Fareed Al Alawi. "Our Kuwait customers travelling beyond Bahrain and Muscat now have more choices of onward connections to Europe and other continents with shorter connecting times."

Last May, Gulf Air increased its services from Bahrain to Kuwait from 17 flights to 21 flights per week. Within six months the airline had to add seven more flights to meet the rapidly increasing passenger growth. "We have been witnessing steady growth since the past year from our customers, particularly from the large base of businessmen who prefer to travel in Business class during weekdays on business and the GCC families on shopping trips over weekends," said Gulf Air General Manager Kuwait Houssam Weiss.

"Our Muscat flights were introduced to serve the increasing number of tourists to Oman and passengers travelling onward to South India and South-East Asia.

"We have seen 16.5 per cent increase in between Kuwait and Muscat."