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. Its main base was

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3 April 2007 It was briefly relocated between

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and

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

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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

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and

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took place on 15 June 2003. Gulf Traveller planned to add

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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; ; (hub) ; - Dhaka ; - Mumbai, Thiruvananthapuram ; - Jakarta ; - Amman ; - Nairobi ; - Kathmandu ; - Muscat (hub) ; - Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore, Peshawar ; - Dammam, Jeddah, Riyadh ; - Dar es Salaam, Zanzibar ; - Abu Dhabi

Fleet

The Gulf Traveller Fleet consisted of the following aircraft (as of March 2007): *6 Boeing 767-3P6ER

References

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