Gulf Air resumes flights to Tbilisi

Bahrain-based airline starts three-times-a-week service to Georgian capital

Gulf Air, the national carrier of Bahrain, will resume direct operations from Bahrain International Airport to Tbilisi, Georgia, starting with three weekly flights, from 15 July 2021.

The airline’s acting chief executive officer, Captain Waleed Abdulhameed Al Alawi, said: “We have been operating direct flights between Bahrain and Georgia since 2017 and it is one of Gulf Air’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.”

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Gulf Air 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. 

The airline has also launched seasonal flights for the summer to destinations including Mykonos and Santorini in Greece, Malaga in Spain and Alexandria and Sharm El Sheikh in Egypt.

Recently, Gulf Air announced complimentary Covid-19 travel insurance for all ticket holders including health and quarantine expenses in the event of a passenger being diagnosed with or contracting the virus during their journey. All tickets booked, including redemption tickets, on Gulf Air flights for travel until 10 November, 2021, are automatically covered with Covid-19 insurance at no extra cost. 

 For updates and travel advice visit www.gulfair.com/covid19.