Despite his shortcomings, Mr. Ali is such a social butterfly. He was having dinner at the Leela Hotel the other night with a couple of the expat 777 Captains who recently returned from servitude at AI and RBI.
I imagine the dinner meetings are more intimate than the sham group meetings formerly held in BRU.
Got to hand it to him, he certainly knows how to keep the local Indian pilots in line and the expats happy. He probably has Indian servants back in Bahrain too.