Gulf Air Developments

[buba]

Sorry dude.. What does jlo and shakin her ass around the fareast gat to do with operating domestic flights in saudi..lol.. The only two and two most of us would like to put together is her butt cheeks.. Lol

[Mr. R]

buba what he means is that jlo chartered a GF plane for booty shaking in far east (to some of the destinations we have lost)

but yeah that's my type of putting two and two together as well

[buba]

A peanut butter sandwich Mr R

[John21UK]

@ buba. I was actually quite proud of my cryptic description of events.

[buba]

Am more into cyrillic than cryptic

[Landflap]

Now I'm getting seriously worried !

[John21UK]

Bahrain Air is feeling the strain as well with big changes to their winter program:
Bahrain Air Scales Back Operation in W12 | Airline Route – Worldwide Airline Route Updates

I know it's a thread about Gulf Air but they announced making a operational (?) profit some months back and I figured they were doing ok ish. And it's a small local market...

[55Jay]

Bahrain – Kathmandu Service reduce from planned daily to 2 weekly

At least staying on current sked.

Tx John.

[55Jay]

and I did track back to your reply, did the math, I thought it was

[John21UK]

A poster on Airliners.net reported the following:

I've read on another forum that it has been reported in the Bahrani press recently that GF will only continue to operate the routes that it has agreed financial support from the government for and that BKK is not one of them. The thread lists the quoted cities as:

Abu Dhabi
Amman
Baghdad
Basra
Beirut
Cairo
Damascus
Dammam
Doha
Dubai
Erbil
Isfhan
Islamabad
Istanbul
Jeddah
Karachi
Kuwait
Lahore
London
Mashhad
Madina Munawara
Mumbai
Muscat
Najaf
New Delhi
Paris
Peshawar
Riyadh
Sanaa'
Shiraz
Tehran

So it's only two long haul routes would be LHR and CDG.

The thread i read though offers no link, just that 'I read in a Bahrani Arabic Newspaper'....

Can any of our ANET friends in the mid east shed any light?

So I'm missing; Addis, Aden, Bangkok, Colombo, Cochin, Copenhagen, Dhaka, Frankfurt, Kathmandu, Manila, Nairobi, Rome. Any others? I just can't believe some of them.

A few things that make me doubt this list and how old it is.
- A previous report by Gulf Air said they cancelled Basra but it is mentioned in the list above. Link: Gulf Air Shelves Planned Basra Service Resumption | Airline Route – Worldwide Airline Route Updates
- Iran flights: yeah right...
- Recent increase in flights to some of these destinations. Why do that if you are planning to cancel them?
- New aircraft (2 x A321's) coming.

Too many contradictions here...

[55Jay]

I hear lady boys in BKK already.

The Shura council can't morally approve of flights to Land of Smiles.

Hope King K will intervene.

[55Jay]

My last trip to BKK (on QR), surrounded by women in full abaya.

GF is getting jammed into a losing position here by the long beards.

BKK is a money maker. Men, women and dirty expats alike.

[Calmcavok]

That was the list in the Daily Tribune a few weeks ago. Doesn't sound plausible given the recent announcement about the fleet size.

[John21UK]

Thanks, I missed that one. I can't imagine them dropping BKK/MNL anyway. The amount of traffic going/coming from elsewhere through the network is simply too big.

[John21UK]

I thought this system has ben operational for at least one year?
Or will we go down to a seperation of less then 10nm on approach? (scary!)
Bahrain gets new air navigation radar system, 24x7 Bahrain News

[buba]

Been told that a bidding system has been handed in a while back but still pending top management approval

Also heard through the grapevine CPH might be axed.

[ferris]

The article doesn't describe it very well, but the "new radar" refers to an upgraded secondary surveillance radar which adds Mode S. It is a safety improvement- we can see if you have set the correct cleared altitude, or are cheating on speeds
Yes, we've had it for a while, but it isn't a fact until someone cuts the ribbon and has had their picture taken

[John21UK]

Us Pilots, cheating on speed! How dare you accuse us of such an atrocity! LOL

[John21UK]

Could things still go t*ts up?
Unions to discuss layoff plan today:
Gulf Daily News » Local News » Union to discuss Gulf Air's layoff plan

This is definately a good proposal:
Gulf Daily News » Local News » Parliament to discuss air fuel subsidy

[John21UK]

Still no clarity on the mass redundancies. It seems like this option is getting more expensive by the day: Gulf Daily News » Local News » Higher payout call by union

And why is the GATU not pushing those in power away from the idea of shrinking/redundancies and letting them see it's not the solution!!!