Bahrain Air targets 1m passengers

Ibrahim Alhamer, managing director of low cost carrier Bahrain Air has said that adding new destinations is expected to help raise the carrier's passenger numbers to one million this year, Reuters has reported. The airline plans to add Dhaka and Chittagong in Bangladesh, and Istanbul in Turkey as new destinations during 2010, he said. The airline carried some 750,000 passengers during 2009, about 200,000 under its initial forecast, he said.