TWO new state-of-the-art safety vehicles will be added to a fleet of six already serving Bahrain International Airport (BIA) as part of a BD1.3 million deal announced yesterday. The announcement, which came during a signing ceremony on the sidelines of the Bahrain International Airshow, will see AMA Motors Group provide Bahrain Airport Company (BAC) with two additional aircraft rescue and fire-fighting vehicles on behalf of Austria-based fire services company Rosenbauer. The "rapid intervention Read more [...]

BAHRAIN - Gulf Air’s planned A330 retrofit, scheduled to be completed in the last quarter of 2014, is part of the airline’s on-going proactive re-fleeting and product enhancement strategy. A complete transformation of the current A330 seat configuration will allow for the introduction of fully-flat bed seats in the airline’s Falcon Gold Class, revamped seats in Economy Class and the introduction of a state-of-the-art in-flight-entertainment (IFE) system throughout. Gulf Air, the national Read more [...]

Fahed Al-Muhaisen, assistant director of projects at King Fahd Causeway Organization, has revealed that the organization is studying the possibility of creating a railway system that will link Saudi Arabia with Bahrain and Bahrain with the rest of the Arab countries. The official assured that the study is currently under way and will be finalized by the end of 2014. Al-Muhaisen pointed out that a committee comprising officials from the Ministry of Interior and other governmental bodies has been Read more [...]

The newly launched Saudi Gulf airline would initially focus on domestic routes covering Dammam, Jeddah, Riyadh and secondary Saudi cities before expanding to regional destinations, a company official said here. The Eastern Province-based airline was launched at the Bahrain International Air Show, with its owners also announcing an order for 16 Bombardier CSeries CS300s aircraft worth around $2 billion, with an option to buy a further 10 planes for $1 billion. Deliveries will run from late 2015 into Read more [...]