Airlines
Gulf Air CEO Optimistic as Fleet To Double by 2023
Airline turning a profit this year as chief executive tightens belts
A Gulf Air Airbus A330-200 approaches London Heathrow Airport. (Photo: Flickr: Creative Commons (BY-SA) by Hawkeye UK)
A Gulf Air Airbus A330-200 approaches London Heathrow Airport. (Photo: Flickr: Creative Commons (BY-SA) by Hawkeye UK)

Planning to receive a total of 39 new aircraft by the end of 2023, Bahrain’s Gulf Air has embarked on a connectivity and cost-cutting mission as CEO Kresimir Kucko prepares to start his second year on the job. Now with the airline 11 months, Kucko told an audience at the recent Airline Economics Growth Frontiers conference in Dubai that he harbors no aspirations to “fight” with the Gulf region’s so-called Big Three, but that Gulf Air will blaze its own trail toward prosperity.


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