Gulf Air

LHR-BAH in Falcon Gold. Old A340-600. Boarded on time but error in Pax numbers resulted in 30 minute delay and much frustration for many with tight connections. Aircraft showing its age with worn seating and no AVOD but cabin service was excellent with Chef providing really good food accompanied by a decent wine list. Whilst the A340 is an old bird it still gives a smooth a quiet flight but the sooner Gulf update their Falcon Gold cabins the better.

Economy: LHR-BKK return. Very hard to give a balanced review as each flight in the four parts was like flying different airlines. The service levels varied so much. Food very good on all legs. Transfer in Bahrain 10/10 great little airport and no buses. Flight attendants: from the gum chewing lady who loudly told her co-worker she didn't like speaking German to the girls that though it funny that they where too busy to get into position and could only point to one exit door during the safety video. Contrast this to the crew on the last leg home who without doubt could have been from any of the top performing airlines in the world. Would I fly Gulf again? At their low prices hard not to Just don't expect to much and then if your lucky your expectations might just be exceeded if your lucky! Entertainment can't review as broken on all legs - says it all really.

DOH-LHR via Bahrain. Outbound flight was delayed 2 hours coming from JED. As usual cabin crew very active and helpful haven't seen the Sky Hub onboard yet on both ways. Presentation of meals was very good Gulf Air Lounge in LHR is nice with an average amount of food and drinks. GF needs to reschedule the connection flights times to DOH since they are rescheduling their flight times to Europe.

FRA to KUL via BAH. Outbound flight was very good and left on time. Seats were spacious food was good and staff friendly and present in the cabin a lot. Bahrain to Kuala Lumpur flight was delayed but again the flight was good and staff great. The only downside was the 6 hour stop over in Bahrain and the inflight entertainment was pretty basic but worked and had a choice of a few movies. Definitely value for money.

LHR-KTM via BAH. Good flight on all legs. Good food. Cabin staff efficient and professional. Unlimited drinks on request. Poor quality headphones meant unable to use inflight entertainment but not really that important to me. Food was good.

FRA-BAH-MNL return. Flight from FRA to BAH was on time. Friendly staff good IFE food ok and enough room to sit. Only one hour stop in BAH. Flight to MNL excellent as well. Very good value for the money. I will fly Gulf Air again.

KWI-BAH-LHR. The service was great planes were clean and cabin crew professional. Food was fine and a great selection of drinks. All planes were fitted with the new entertainment system.

London Heathrow to Bahrain 8th Dec 2011 at 21.50. Cabin dirty headset didn't work no inflight entertainment and staff terse. Third time in the last year I have travelled with Gulf Air and usually very good but this was poor.

KUL-BAH-CDG return on the 330 for all segments. Excellent value for money! FA's professional friendly and hospitable. The food was appetizing with a wide variety of options. What remains for Gulf Air is simply to replace their aircraft's with new ones and their rating will definitely improve.

IFE was a relatively short loop of programs on 10+ channels with moving map forward and ground cam view. The channels repeated themselves 3 times during a 7 hr flight and were the same in both directions. During the last 45 mins before landing the IFE shows adverts over and over again. This gets quite frustrating when you are on a few Gulf flights - one after the other. Food and service was very good with warm bread and tasty food (not served in a foil tray).