Gulf Air to scrap Dublin service

Gulf Air will drop three destinations, including Dublin, and may replace three planes it owns with leased aircraft to cut costs, the state-owned company's vice chairman said on Wednesday.

The leased aircraft would replace three of nine Boeing 767s the airline, owned by the governments of Bahrain and Oman, plans to drop from the fleet, Mahmood al-Kooheji said in an interview. The fleet currently has 34 planes.