Gulf Traveller was the all-economy full service subsidiary

Subsidiary

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 airline

Airline

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 of Gulf Air

Gulf Air

Gulf Air is the principal flag carrier of the Kingdom of Bahrain. Headquartered in Muharraq, adjacent to Bahrain International Airport, the airline operates scheduled services to 45 destinations in 28 countries across Africa, Asia and Europe. Its main base is Bahrain International Airport...

. Its main base was Abu Dhabi International Airport

Abu Dhabi International Airport

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. It was briefly relocated between Bahrain

Bahrain

' , officially the Kingdom of Bahrain , is a small island state near the western shores of the Persian Gulf. It is ruled by the Al Khalifa royal family. The population in 2010 stood at 1,214,705, including 235,108 non-nationals. Formerly an emirate, Bahrain was declared a kingdom in 2002.Bahrain is...

 and Muscat

Muscat, Oman

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 airports after Abu Dhabi pulled out of the Gulf Air consortium in 2005, and in May 2007 Oman

Oman

Oman , officially called the Sultanate of Oman , is an Arab state in southwest Asia on the southeast coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It is bordered by the United Arab Emirates to the northwest, Saudi Arabia to the west, and Yemen to the southwest. The coast is formed by the Arabian Sea on the...

 also pulled out of the group leaving Bahrain as sole owner of Gulf Air. Gulf Traveller has since been disbanded due to these changes.

History

Gulf Traveller was founded on 1 June 2003 as part of the Gulf Air three year restructuring and turnaround programme instigated by James Hogan. The model behind Gulf Air was to economise on routes with little demand for First or Business Class passengers. Gulf Traveller's inaugural flight between Abu Dhabi

Abu Dhabi

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 and Jeddah

Jeddah

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 took place on 15 June 2003.

Gulf Traveller also made history with the appointment of a female pilot - the first airline in the region to do so. The female pilot is a French national, Caroline Le Cann, flying the Gulf Traveller Boeing 767

Boeing 767

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.

Gulf Traveller planned to add Birmingham

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, United Kingdom

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, to its list of destinations in 2004, however, the project was put on hold for the foreseeable future in 2005, and then eventually scrapped.

Former destinations

Gulf Traveller operated to the following;

• Bahrain (hub)
• Bangladesh - Dhaka
• India - Mumbai, Thiruvananthapuram
• Indonesia - Jakarta
• Jordan - Amman
• Kenya - Nairobi
• Nepal - Kathmandu
• Oman - Muscat (hub)
• Pakistan - Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore, Peshawar
• Saudi Arabia - Dammam, Jeddah, Riyadh
• Tanzania - Dar es Salaam, Zanzibar
• United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi

Fleet

The Gulf Traveller Fleet consists of the following aircraft (as of March 2007) :

• 5 Boeing 767-300ER
  Boeing 767
  The Boeing 767 is a mid-size, wide-body twin-engine jet airliner built by Boeing Commercial Airplanes. It was the manufacturer's first wide-body twinjet and its first airliner with a two-crew glass cockpit. The aircraft features two turbofan engines, a supercritical wing, and a conventional tail...