Gulf Air, Bahrain’s national carrier, was recognized recently at the iTECH 2016 Awards held during Gulf Industry Fair 2016, which celebrated regional and international information and communications technology (ICT) sector achievements.

Receiving the Leading CIO award, Gulf Air Director of Information Technology (IT) Jassim Haji said: “I’m delighted to receive this award – a true and fitting testament to the commitment, dedication and skills held by the national carrier’s IT team and which have helped propel Gulf Air consistently to the forefront of industry innovations.”

This is the second iTECH Award recognition garnered by Gulf Air. The airline was recently honored, for the third consecutive year, at the sixth edition of the ICT conference, MEET ICT, and the Bahrain International Technology Exhibition (BITEX)— held in Bahrain earlier in January 2016.

Additionally, Gulf Air recently won Computer News Middle East's (CNME) annual CIO 100 Award for the 4th consecutive year, becoming the “first organization and first airline in the Middle East” to do so.

Gulf Air’s IT achievements include being the first organization in Bahrain to implement private cloud computing in its IT operations and thereby introduced numerous innovations and improvements in its IT function, said a press release.