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I don't think Bahrainis realise any of this!

lease or no lease, given to incapable people it will never resurface regardless of how new or good the equipment is.

Why Bahrain Air ????!!!!!

:ooh:WOULD ANYBODY TELL ME, IF GF IS 100% OWNED BY BAH GOVERNMENT!! THEN WHY ON EARTH THEY WANT TO PUNISH IT BY STARTING ANOTHER AIRLINE, IT IS LIKE THE CAT WHICH IS EATING ITS OWN TAIL UNTIL IT FINISHES.

I don't know..but if i owned a medium sized bloated, unprofitable airline with an old fleet of beat up aircraft that was politically difficult to close down or make efficient i may be tempted to start up a nice shiny new airline without any of the problems the other one had and then let the old one die off without investing any more dinars into it.

Problem solved, nice new airline built from scratch to compete in a modern marketplace and the old flag carrier that was unable to adapt to changing market conditions a simple note in th history books....one scenario that comes to mind.

Good scenario and a worthy one.

To add, Bahrain Air will only have Bahraini hanger-ons, not like GF which still has people from the other GCC countries + expats continuing to benefit.

Start afresh.

GF RIP

Is Bahrain Air government? Kuwait has its own KU along with Jazeera. There is nothing wrong specially if Bahrain Air remains private despite being "sponsored" by the PM's clan. I wonder the role a certain ex-GF VPOps will play given his present government post and his association with his present boss :cool: possibly a staunch defender of this project?
Wikipedia says:
Bahrain Air (Arabic: طيران البحرين) is the second flag carrier of the Kingdom of Bahrain. The low-cost airline plans to operate initially scheduled services to 13 destinations in the Middle East. The airline plans to increase its destinations to 14 cities by April 2008, 23 cities by 2009 and up to 25 cities by 2010.
Bahrain Air will start operations on February 1, 2008. The airline will use a modern Airbus A320 fleet, with 12 seats in business and 150 in economy, and Boeing 737, with 24 seats in business and 168 in economy. It will initially fly on Bahrain, Dubai, Mashad, Beirut and Alexandria routes.
Managing director Ibrahim Al Hamer said the plan was to increase the number of destinations to 25 in the next three years.
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Check this out: http://bahrainair.org/senior_management.php. There are some familiar faces and names.

you need to shut up fatal gulfy, or is it J?