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Gulf Air Inks 787 Lease Deal with DAE
Airline's first airplane is scheduled to enter its fleet in 2018.
Khalifa Al Daboos, managing director of DAE (left) and Waleed Al Alawi, deputy CEO of Gulf Air, sign the agreement for Gulf Air to lease five Boeing 787-9 Dreamliners.
Khalifa Al Daboos, managing director of DAE (left) and Waleed Al Alawi, deputy CEO of Gulf Air, sign the agreement for Gulf Air to lease five Boeing 787-9 Dreamliners.

Gulf Air signed a lease deal with Dubai Aerospace Enterprise (DAE) on November 12 involving five Boeing 787-9s scheduled to enter the Bahraini carrier’s fleet next year. The airline plans to use the airplanes as expansion vehicles to facilitate future network development, it said.