I've flown with quite a few people in GF now that have told me Bahrain "needs" an airline. Why? I will concede that Bahrain "wants" an airline but needing and wanting are two completely different things. You can travel to anywhere in the world from Bahrain on airlines other than GF. If they were serious about saving face then why would they have let GF be run down to the laughing stock that it has become? This thing about GF being vital to the economy is open to argument as well. The hundreds of millions of dollars that they flush down the toilet to keep GF limping on could possibly be invested in other industries that would be capable of employing Bahranis surely.