How much of Gulf Air’s business comes from India?
We were the first carrier to come into India. Since 1971, Gulf Air has been flying into India. We lost a bit in the last couple of years to other carriers — Emirates, Qatar, Etihad and strong local-growth ones. And now a new management team is in charge. A new board is in charge. There’s one owner. So there’s one master to serve and we can align our growth strategy to the growth strategy of the kingdom and the country. We have currently seven India destinations. We can go up to eight and increase them even further. Of this trip, the success story is that we have secured a bilateral agreement between Bahrain and India which was not there before. There was an agreement between Oman and Bahrain and India but now we have separated it. Now it is exclusively between Bahrain and India. How many more seats have you secured? We got about 10 per cent more but it was important for us to secure what we had. Because Oman was there as well, and they said we want to have 25 per cent of the allocation
