Originally Owned By Four Sultanates Gulf Air Is Now Solely Owned By Bahrain

Gulf air commenced its operations in 1950 and it is the flag airline carrier of Kingdom of Bahrain, operating its flights from its hub in Bahrain International Airport, with its fleet size of 35 serving 41 destinations, both domestic and international, with focus city hubs at Dubai International Airport and Muscat International Airport, carrying its favourite company slogan ‘Your network, your world’, having its code share agreements with as many as 18 international airline companies.

Like many other Airline companies, Gulf Air began its journey in the field of Air transport in late 1940s, started by a Pilot turned entrepreneur Freddie Bosworth as an Air taxi service between Doha and Bahrain, also between Dhahran and Bahrain, later in 1950s the major share holdings of this company then called Gulf Aviation was acquired by BOAC, however in 1970s the Governments of Bahrain, Qatar, Abu Dhabi and Oman purchased BOAC’s shares and rebranded the Airlines as Gulf Air, also added a subsidiary Gulf Helicopters to it.

While Qatar withdrew its ownership in 2002, Abu Dhabi followed in 2006, Oman also withdrawing in 2007 to start their own Airline companies, the Government of Bahrain became the sole owner of Gulf Air, since then maintaining the status of Gulf Air as the State owned enterprise of Bahrain.

United Airlines, an American Airline company , is one of the largest airline company in the world, while its fleet size is recognized as the second largest in the world with 702 aircrafts, having its operations from its main hub at George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston, it operates from nine other Airports in the USA and other countries as its hubs.

United Airlines is also the founding member of Star Alliance, offering its services connected to 1000 plus destinations spread over 170 countries and it operates a regional service called United Express.

The employee strength of United Airlines is as much as 86852, and its cabin classification is of multi-classification, with its

•First class having different types of United Global First (New), United Global First (Old), United First (Domestic) and United First (p.s.)
•Business Class classified as United BusinessFirst Suites (New), United BusinessFirst Seats (Old), United BusinessFirst Suites (Continental), United Businesss (p.s.) and United Business (Domestic)
•Economy class grouped as United Economy ( International), United Economy (Domestic) and United Economy Plus.

United Airlines also operates a Frequent Flyer program called MileagePlus, in which 10 of its code share agreement partners also participate.