Gulf Air flew an unscheduled extra flight to Cairo on Sunday (Jan 30) to evacuate Bahraini students from Egypt.
The airline also changed its regular flight GF071/070 between Bahrain and Cairo to a larger Airbus A340 aircraft to accommodate more passengers.
The second regular flight GF 079/080 was operated earlier than the scheduled time to comply with the curfew timings in force in Cairo.
“As the national airline of the Kingdom of Bahrain, it is our responsibility to ensure our Bahraini nationals are brought back home,” said Samer Majali, chief executive officer, Gulf Air.
“We are co-operating with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Civil Aviation Authorities and other officials in the Kingdom of Bahrain and Egypt to bring our passengers as safely and as soon as possible. That’s why we operated a bigger aircraft and rescheduled our regular flight in view of the curfew.”
“We are in constant touch with the officials and will take immediate further steps as and when necessary.”
Gulf Air will continue to fly the bigger A340 on Jan 31 and an A330 on Feb 1 on its scheduled flight GF 071/GF070 to and from Cairo to accommodate more passengers while its Bahrain-Alexandria flights GF 075/GF076 will be operated earlier than the scheduled timings on 31 Jan and 1 Feb 2011 to comply with the curfew in force.
Passengers are being informed of the revised schedule by the Gulf Air World Wide Contact Centre.