Bahrain Air was incorporated on the 2nd of July 2007 as a closed Bahraini Shareholding Company B.S.C (C) and is the first privately owned national carrier of Bahrain. it's Inaugural flight took off on 3rd February 2008 from Bahrain to the city of Dubai.

 Bahrain Air plans to operate scheduled services to 13 destinations in the Middle East region. It runs scheduled flights serving the Gulf, Middle East, Lebanon, the Indian sub-continent, as well as other regions,Bahrain Air also offers point-to-point services, for both the business community and the traveling public.

Bahrain Air officially launched operations on February 1, 2008. Privately owned low-cost carrier operating premium low-priced services from Bahrain to 19 destinations in the Middle East and the Indian subcontinent. New services was added to Chttagong and Dhaka in March 2010, followed by Istanbul in June. Services Scheduled, international, regional, domestic, passenger.Main base Bahrain International (BAH).

Shareholders are Bahraini and Saudi investors, includes Al Mozoon Contracting (Bahrain), Ali Mohamed Jabour Almusalam (Bahrain), AlZayani Investment Company (Bahrain), Bahrain Duty Free Shops Complex (Bahrain), Faisal Hassan Jawad (Bahrain), Fal Holdings Arabia (Saudi), Ibrahim Abdulla Ali Alhamer (Bahrain), Management Professional Commercial Arabian Holding (Saudi), Nasser Bin Ali Al Mansour Alshareef (Saudi), Shaikh Mohamed Bin Abdulla Alkhalifa (Bahrain), Shmokh AlHemam Co. for Communication & Information (Saudi). Bahrain Air has an alliance with Sama.

Ownership: private, registered in Bahrain, as a "closed joint-stock company"

Executives:CEO Mr. Richard Nuttall ,Mohammed Bin Abdulla Al-Khalifa (Chairman) ,Ibrahim Abdulla Al-Hamer (Managing Director) ,Captain Waleed Alshamsi (Director Operations & Maintenance).