Airline headquartered in Bahrain. Founded 1950.
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$260K
$167K
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SourcesReady For Take-Off Book, “Gulf Air | Pilot Careers, Pay, Fleet & Work-Life Guide”Published 8 June 2026 · checked 30 October 2026
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Gulf Air / Gulf Air Group recruitment system “GF1972 - Join Gulf Air as a First Officer – Airbus A320”checked 19 October 2026Gulf Air B.S.C. (C) “GF1853 - Join Gulf Air as a First Officer – Airbus A320”checked 19 October 2026
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Vacancy for first officers with an A320 type rating (GF1972) · checked 19 October 2026
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3 airports
MalaysiaKUL
Kuala Lumpur
Kuala Lumpur
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Gulf Air captains earn about $260K a year on our estimate. That is our own estimate from public information, not a figure Gulf Air publishes. Bahrain levies no personal income tax, so this is close to take-home. Actual amounts taken from payslips submitted by pilots are in REAL PAY.
Gulf Air first officers earn about $167K a year on our estimate. That is our own estimate from public information, not a figure Gulf Air publishes. Bahrain levies no personal income tax, so this is close to take-home.
Bahrain has no personal income tax, so no income tax is deducted from pay. On our estimate captains are at about $260K a year and first officers about $167K, and with no income tax that is close to what reaches your account. Japanese residency rules are a separate question for your own tax adviser.
Gulf Air’s vacancy for first officers with an A320 type rating (GF1972) asks for 1,500 hours total (250 on the A320 and 500 on multi-crew jets), or 700 hours total (500 on the A320). The requirements this page used to show had no source behind them, so they have been removed rather than left standing.
We do not publish a monthly figure for Gulf Air. An annual figure divided by twelve is not what lands in a given month — what you are paid moves with the hours you fly.
We estimate annual pay for Gulf Air captains at about $260K. That is our own estimate from public information, not a figure Gulf Air publishes. There is no personal income tax where the airline is based, so this is close to take-home. The actual figure moves with the aircraft type, years of service and the routes you fly. We estimate annual pay for Gulf Air first officers at about $167K. That is our own estimate from public information, not a figure Gulf Air publishes. There is no personal income tax where the airline is based, so this is close to take-home. The actual figure moves with the aircraft type, years of service and the routes you fly. Source checked 2026-10-30; yen figures are converted for comparison at the rate held as of 2026-08-22, not a live rate.
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