I am interested in a position with Gulf air in Bahrain. I've flown the A320 and 767 in the past. Does anyone have a contact email, so I can fire off my CV.

Many thanks.

 

U used to fly out of Bahrain for DHL and know one of the ex managers; he'll have a contact. Give me a day or two and I'll get it to you. I won't put it online though, so perhaps work up the posts so you can recieve a PM.

 

http://www.gulfaircareers.com/career...aspx?pageid=89
You can try here. If they say there's no positions at the moment, try anyway because we're always short.

 

kavaluva,

You must be ex Air Pacific with that kind of handle. . . ?

 

Thanks for the reply guys.

 

But my question would be, " why do you want to go to work for a dying carrier? "


TP

 

I just left Bahrain after flying there for a year with the Navy. They are stuggling with capacity at the airport itself, but the airline should be good for awhile. No new aircraft orders like other carriers in the region. Love the GA girls. They were hiring lots of 767 and A320 guys. Typical expat troubles in the region though. PPrune.com has lots of input on that.

 

Close enough Koru. Tonga actually....yes we do drink that stuff on occassions. You're probably Maori with that title, or Kiwi at least. Kioura bro. Typhoon, GF ain't a dying carrier. The Bahrain government re-injected 1.33US billion into the company two days ago (check out www.gulf-daily-news.com and archives for the 17th March). They may be replacing their entire aging B767s with B777 or B747-400s. With all that activity, this carrier ain't going anywhere, at least in the foreseeable future.
A handy email I think is [email protected] or just [email protected]. He's in charge of recruitment. Send him a CV or expressions of interest.

 

I still maintain that there are far better choices in the Gulf than Gulf Air.

From April 24th:

Gulf axes aircraft and budget carrier as finances go critical

By David Kaminski-Morrow

Gulf Air is to shed its entire Airbus A340 and Boeing 767 fleets as part of a two-pronged restructuring, after disclosing the full extent of its financial crisis.

It is embarking on a 310 million Bahrain dinar ($822 million) investment programme to reverse heavy losses, which reached 130 million dinars last year. This will be driven by the Bahraini government, which is raising its share in the carrier to 80%.

New chief executive André Dose warns that job losses will be necessary to rescue the carrier, which is losing over $1 million a day. He says the situation is "more dramatic" than he had expected and describes the financial state as "critical".

Gulf Air has 34 aircraft - nine A340-300s, six A330-200s, 10 A320s and nine 767s - but will cut the fleet to 28 by eliminating the A340s and 767s. All-economy operation Gulf Traveller, which used five of the 767s, will be axed.

It will instead bring in another eight A330s as well as four A321s, the airline's first, to create a simpler all-Airbus operation. Dose says the replacement programme will be completed by the start of 2009.

He wants to close a "profitability gap" of 156 million dinars by restructuring 12 main business areas. This will cut costs by 66 million dinars and generate an extra 90 million dinars in revenues.

Gulf Air's revamp will involve improving Middle East connections and dropping loss-making long-haul routes to Hong Kong, Sydney, Singapore, Johannesburg, Jakarta and Dublin.



Typhoonpilot

 

It seems you stand corrected. As is now apparent, all the talk of grandeur had not materialised with the new management. It may have something to do with their experience with Crossair, a GA outfit that no longer exists as a result of management, the same guys who GF had recently employed.