Gulf Air's director of information technology (IT) Dr Jassim Haji was presented the 'Leading chief information officer' award at the iTECH 2016 Awards held during Gulf Industry Fair in Bahrain.

The fair celebrates regional and international information and communications technology sector achievements.

Upon receiving the award, Dr. 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 honoured, for the third consecutive year, at the sixth edition of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) conference "MEET ICT" and the Bahrain International Technology Exhibition (BITEX) - held in the kingdom in January.

Additionally, Gulf Air recently won Computer News Middle East's (CNME) prestigious CIO 100 Award for the fourth consecutive year, becoming the first organisation and first airline in the Middle East to do so.

Gulf Air 's IT achievements include being the first organisation in Bahrain to implement private cloud computing in its IT operations and thereby introduced numerous innovations and improvements in its IT function. In 2015, the airline successfully rolled out its new generation iPad Electronic Flight Bags (EFBs). Going electronic helped eliminate the need for paper-based manuals and procedures and further improved flight operations as well as achieved major cost-savings. - TradeArabia News Service