Gulf Air to resume direct flights to Georgian capital Tbilisi
MANAMA, July 13, 2021
Gulf Air, the national carrier of the Kingdom of Bahrain, has announced that it will resume direct operations to Tbilisi International Airport in Georgia starting with three weekly flights, from July 15, 2021.
The flag carrier currently flies to and from Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Kuwait, Riyadh, Jeddah, Dammam, Madinah, Muscat, Cairo, Amman, Casablanca, London, Paris, Frankfurt, Athens, Istanbul, Larnaca, Bangkok, Manila, Singapore, Dhaka, Colombo, the Maldives and several destinations in India and Pakistan.
It has also launched all of its seasonal destinations for this summer with direct flights to Mykonos and Santorini in Greece, Malaga in Spain and Alexandria and Sharm El Sheikh in Egypt.
Acting CEO Captain Waleed Abdulhameed Al Alawi said: "We have been operating direct flights between Bahrain and Georgia since 2017 and it is one of the airline’s main destinations in the Caucasus region."
"We are extremely happy to see a much healthier trend in summer traffic and the resumption of some of our most popular destinations as the global vaccination programme continues to bring a sense of normalcy back into our routine,” he stated.
Recently, Gulf Air had announced complimentary Covid-19 travel insurance coverage to all ticket holders including health and quarantine expenses in the unexpected circumstances of being diagnosed with or contracting the virus during passengers’ journeys.
All tickets booked, including redemption tickets, on Gulf Air flights for travel until November 10 are automatically covered with Covid-19 insurance at no extra cost.-TradeArabia News Service