Gulf Air this week unveiled Gulf Traveller, its subsidiary all-economy airline, which will take to the skies on 1 June 2003 initiating an exciting new era in the history of the airline and in regional aviation.
The Gulf Traveller aircraft was displayed alongside an aircraft in Gulf Air¹s new livery at Arabian Travel Market in Dubai.
Introducing Gulf Traveller, James Hogan, Gulf Air¹s President and Chief Executive said “we are facing some of the greatest challenges since the beginning of aviation as we know it. The global airline industry is engaged in a radical re-appraisal of its structure and approach in order to remain relevant. It is going to have to change to more correctly meet the needs of customers and contemporary passenger travel trends”.
“Gulf Traveller is our response to these demands. In effect, we have tailored an airline to address just a single segment of the broad multi-segmented market in which we operate,” he said.
Not to be confused with so-called budget or “no frills” carriers, Gulf Traveller is an all-economy, full-service airline, offering everything traditionally associated with an economy service on a major international carrier.
“There are more cabin crew dedicated to passenger needs than on most regular economy class flights. With a crew to passenger ratio of one to 39, which compares favourably with ratios of one flight attendant to 44 or even 46 passengers on leading international airlines, service on Gulf Traveller is contemporary, and above all, caring and culturally sensitive” explained Hogan.
Careful product tailoring is reflected in all the full range of services offered in the all-economy class cabins on Gulf Traveller.
Menus have been designed to accommodate various cultural palates and religious requirements, and reflect regional flavours and colours in dishes both exotic and simple.
Inflight entertainment has also been carefully selected to be culturally appropriate in the destination countries served by Gulf Traveller with films and audio channels in a range of languages understood by the native speakers of destinations from Kathmandu to Kerala.
Using a distinctive flight number series, Gulf Traveller is set to operate out of Gulf Air¹s base in Abu Dhabi from 1 June 2003 using six single-class Boeing 767-300ERs with 257 seats.
The airline will serve routes presently served by Gulf Air¹s network, specifically those where customer demand exceeds existing capacity, and includes exotic leisure destinations in Nepal, Pakistan, Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka, Tanzania and Zanzibar. Cities within the GCC also feature on the destination list, and future plans include extending the network to include secondary European destinations.
By: kurmitz28 - 11th May 2003 at 20:11
I posted the cut down version of this last week Andy.
Im flying to Bahrain next month and I will see if I can get some pics on here
By: Bhoy - 10th May 2003 at 20:07
With a crew to passenger ratio of one to 39
using six single-class Boeing 767-300ERs with 257 seats.
so, let me get this straight, either someone can’t do their sums very well, or these flights will be manned by 6.5897cabin crew members… :confused:
so, is it 6 members of crew, in which case it’s a ratio of one crew member to every 42 and a bit passengers, or they’re using 7 crew members, in which case the ratio is just under one crew member to every 37 passengers. It can’t be this, as other wise they’d have said the ratio was 1:37, so it must be 6 crew, in which case the advertsiing is misleading.
Unless the 6 crew are in passengers seats, leaving the capacity only 251, although, even then, the ratio would be just under 42. :rolleyes:
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May 10, 2003 at 3:58 pm