MMD's?
Imagine, you are a sheik. You have luxury yachts, assortment of vehicles from lunar rovers to Ferraris, beautiful sandy beaches with warm inviting waters. You never have to travel to Manama international airport because you have your own airfield with your own airline with aircraft to suit every occasion, including one dedicated to the ‘mile high club’ Aircraft to put some national fleets to shame.
Unfortunately the imperial leather was placed to many times the wrong way up and has been the cause of to many slippery forays. Now it’s time to pay the cost! Gulfair are pretty much the only thing that keeps Bahrain on the map. It’s made many a man rich and, your local fake watch seller in the souk would spit in his grave if he thought gulfair would disappear into obscurity. I will from now on refer to gulfair in lower case and gfa. So too, some of the best guys and crews in the company are looking at possible extinction. I will not the harbinger of doom but doom it will be for the poor sod that just joined the 767 fleet and doesn’t have the required hours to do contracting or other whoring work. For others it will be the opportunity they where looking for! The partying in the back of the aircraft has spoiled the fun for future slave traders.
It was made clear to gfa over 3 months ago that the corrosion on one of its aircraft was beyond limits and was grounded indefinitely, possibly written off for good on a ‘c’ check in Ireland, with only major airframe work returning to service, also that the rest of the fleet were probably in the same condition. Gfa have been trying to avoid the inevitable by sourcing out the c checks to other more ‘amiable’ engineering firms. Fortunately somebody blew the whistle and as a result the truth has now come out possibly saving the lives of at least 2 good men.
The little fat batard that kept throwing his die cast gfa 767 into the swimming pool has now realized that running an airline is no longer a sport. Rather than trade endurance horses, play desert golf, exchange Moroccan prostitutes, collect Falcons, be pimp to Saudi fun seeking royalty, and play ‘airline’ you should consider the effect of neglect and idleness that it has on thousands of lives in the kingdom. Your less than 100,000 barrels of oil a year just pays for you own private aircraft. The nation that started its well intentioned move into first world business 40 years ago ahead of other gulf states has seriously lost it’s impetuous in the last 15 years. It won’t matter about the fancy welcome to Bahrain propaganda videos you show on the flagship fleet if your modern office blocks remain empty. Manama is already disappearing into the filthy dust that no amount of landscaping can remove.
The only way to save gfa from becoming a small has been airline and keep growth stimulated in Bahrain is to stop playing God, realize your own failures and sell 51% to a western management team that will work efficiently to grow their wealth and values into the airline business. Values? Well that’s the question, stop interfering with the private lives of westerners, you can’t expect to attract investment into hypocrisy! And get a beach other than your own! It’s long term thinking, don’t let your sons become Saudi slaves!
yours,