Gulf Air
I am not an airline specialist but I could say Gulf Air produced us a little improvement and proved enormous credibility to date. From assigning Kroll forensic auditors (UK-based) to comb the financial books and arresting staff with fraud history, re-engineering its flight networks, hiring competent people in HR, legal and technical areas followed by buying new aircrafts are excellent and worth-praising actions. All makes me believe Gulf Air has a promising future.
Ex-managements made Gulf Air struggles by their wide-scale corruption. All problems could have been avoided if there were transparent management and robust corporate governance like current one. Gulf Air is now propped up by one owner, Bahrain, and I doubt the latter want to spend public money without getting a return on its investment.
It is nonsense to compare Gulf Air with Etihad & Emirates – the latter 2 airlines do not operate on commercial ground but count on a complete range of monopoly policies and 100% government support on everything (if you travel to Dubai, you will not get an airport entry-visa – except if you are diplomatic, doctor, banker, ..etc . then certainly, most people would be obliged to travel on Emirates !!)
To conclude, the Crown Prince is the key momentum behind recent changes at Gulf Air.