6. (C) The Gulf Air board, now controlled entirely by the GOB, made clear to Naff its vision for Gulf Air as a robust, revitalized national carrier. The airline needed to grow rather than shrink. In October 2007, Gulf Air signed an MOU to purchase Boeing Dreamliners. However, the board reversed itself shortly thereafter, citing …
Bahrain now officially owns Gulf Air, well, within 6 months anyway, once they divvied up the assets, so will it by then hire some bright spark branding company and spends millions of Dinars to change the name to it’s national flag? Will it then be called “Bahrain Air” and leave a rich heritage of decades …