Gulf Air appoints new Chief Commercial Officer

Manama, Bahrain 03 May 2011: Gulf Air, the national carrier of the Kingdom of Bahrain, has appointed Mr. Karim Makhlouf as Chief Commercial Officer.

Mr. Makhlouf joined Gulf Air in October 2010 as Director Commercial Planning and was leading one of the airline’s business-critical departments ensuring the company’s business strategies are delivered.

Karim brings with him significant and relevant experience of over 14 years in key commercial and strategic planning areas of the airline business, along with a good operational understanding. He started his career with Lufthansa working in the company’s several key divisions such as pricing, network planning and management and project management and moving on to become the Senior Vice President of German Wings a subsidiary of Lufthansa.

Later, he moved to SkyEurope airlines as its Chief Commercial Officer and since 2008 he was the Chief Commercial Officer and Deputy CEO of Malev Hungarian Airlines before joining Gulf Air.