Gulf Air (GF, Bahrain International) has held talks with European aircraft manufacturer Airbus (AIB, Toulouse Blagnac) concerning a possible order for up to fifty jets Bahrain's Minister of Information Affairs, Isa Al Hammadi, has said.
“Gulf Air met Airbus and discussed the airline’s future narrow- and wide-body fleet requirements – up to fifty aircraft,” he told Gulf News. “Discussion will be finalised by the end of the year and an announcement will be made during the Bahrain International Airshow (Due in January 2016).”
The Bahraini national carrier currently operates an all-Airbus fleet of sixteen A320-200s, six A321-200s, and six A330-200s serving forty-three destinations across Africa, Asia, and Europe.
It currently has sixteen A320neo on order from Airbus, sixteen B787-8s on order from Boeing (BOE, Washington National) and ten (with six options) A220-100s on order from Bombardier Aerospace (BBA, Montréal Trudeau). Deliveries of all three types are scheduled to run from 2018 onwards.
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