Gulf Air promotes four Bahraini pilots as captains
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National carrier Gulf Air has announced that four of its Bahraini pilots - Ahmed Ismaeel, Ahmed Janahi, Mohammed Kamal and Mohammed Malek - have been promoted as captains following their succesful completion of the final check for command upgrade training programme.
The airline's top management commended all the four for the achievement and also their uniform upgrade from three to four stripes.
Gulf Air said all the newly promoted captains have started their flying career with Gulf Air beginning from second officer and completing the required training and flying hours to become first officers and recently captains.
In line with its commitment to invest in the Bahraini workforce and their career development, the flag carrier continues to provide opportunities for the nationals to take over senior positions in the company.
Lauding the achievement, Gulf Air’s Acting CEO Captain Waleed AlAlawi said: "We are very proud of our Bahraini workforce and flying crew and I’m happy to see them work their way up and be promoted from first officers to captains."
"This is not the peak of their career but only the beginning of them shining in Gulf Air with opportunities to become senior captains, trainings captains, fleet managers or part of senior or executive management in the future," he stated.
The airline boasts 100% Bahrainisation of second officer and first officer pilots and it continues its initiative of training Bahrainis to help become aviation professionals and contribute to the kingdom’s legacy of being a longstanding reliable source of aviation industry professionals who have served the national carrier and other regional airlines, he added.-TradeArabia News Service
