“Gulf Air was among the first movers of the month, returning to the U.S. for the first time since the 1990s.”
Gulf Air resumed US service with three weekly Bahrain-JFK flights on October 1. First Middle Eastern carrier to restart transatlantic routes after decades away. Gulf carriers have been aggressively expanding into the US market while American carriers whine about subsidies. Passengers don’t care about the geopolitics. They want cheap connections through Bahrain.