Gulf Air, the national carrier of Bahrain, recently welcomed a number of Russian travel trade representatives to the kingdom as part of a familiarisation trip.

The trip follows the recent Special Prorate Agreement (SPA) between Gulf Air and Russia's S7 Airlines.

During the visit, leading Russian trade representatives, tour operators, luxury travel outlets and foreign independent travel agents reviewed a number of hotels and experienced various local attractions around the country.

Additionally, the representatives experienced Gulf Air’s latest products, both inflight and on-the-ground and visited the airline’s headquarters to meet with the national carrier’s executive management team and learn more about the Gulf Air offering.

Gulf Air launched a direct Moscow link in October 2014 and the route has seen steady growth since. The new SPA deal with Russian carrier S7 Airlines further enables Gulf Air passengers to take flights beyond Moscow to and from the Russian cities of St Petersburg, Kazan, Samara, Volgograd, Rostov, Nizhny Novgorod, Perm, Ufa, Sochi and Voronezh. The agreement also allows passengers to purchase only one ticket, at a more competitive fare, for their entire journey instead of separate tickets for each individual carrier.

Gulf Air’s direct three weekly flights to Moscow Domodedovo Airport operate on Mondays, Tuesdays and Fridays. – TradeArabia News Service