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Gulf Air resumes direct flights to, from Athens and Cairo

TDT | Manama

National carrier Gulf Air will resume its direct Athens and Cairo flights with scheduled operations starting from today. Both destinations are key within Gulf Air’s network and are popular amongst the airline’s points in the Mediterranean and North African region. Gulf Air has been operating direct flights between Bahrain and Egypt since 1974 and with Greece since 1980.

The airline currently also flies to and from London, Paris, Frankfurt, Manila and Pakistan. “Being one of the few airlines that continued operations in the last three months, Gulf Air continuously works closely with the governments authorities throughout the destinations on its network to resume operations as soon as airports open,” the company said in a statement.

“Gulf Air boasts a flexible and agile network by immediately adapting to government orders and civil aviation directives and has been responsive to continuous changes and updates regarding operations to and from its network destinations.” Updates, including travel advice, network and new health and safety procedures, are constantly added on gulfair.com/ covid19.