- Rome, two weekly flights starting 1 June
- Manchester, two weekly flights starting 1 June
- Nice, two weekly flights starting 2 June
- Milan, five weekly flights starting 1 June
Flights to Milan, Rome and Nice will be served by airline’s new Airbus A321neo with two weekly flights to Rome and Nice and five weekly flights to Milan, while Manchester will be served twice per week by the airline’s flagship Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner. In addition to the new destinations launching during the summer season, the airline will resume its operations to Mykonos and Santorini in Greece, Malaga in Spain, Sharm Al Shaikh and Alexandria in Egypt, and Salalah in Oman.
On the occasion of the announcement, Waleed AlAlawi, acting CEO, Gulf Air, said, “The new routes to our network is a testimony of the continuous expansion of Gulf Air’s network by adding Milan, Rome, Manchester and Nice. These new destinations have been on our horizon and as travel bounces back to normalcy, we knew it was the right time to launch our new routes for our passengers. Our network keeps adding popular boutique destinations that are favourite to many tourists and families in the Kingdom of Bahrain and the region especially as demand for travel grows in a healthy accelerated way towards the summer holidays.”