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			<title>Gulf Air unveils strategy to save $2.65bn</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Carrier to expand Mideast destinations, suspend unprofitable routes.]]></description>
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			<title>Gulf Air denies safety risk after Saudia near miss</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Collision avoided after planes come within 800 vertical feet of each other.]]></description>
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			<title>Gulf Air workers stage labour protest</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Some 300 employees at Bahrain's state-owned carrier protest against job cuts.]]></description>
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			<title>Audit report exposes faults in major Bahrain firms</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Mumtalakat and Gulf Air are criticised in National Audit Court annual report.]]></description>
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			<title>Gulf Air staff plan three minute protest over pay</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Hundreds of members of the Gulf Air Trade Union are set to stop working at 10am.]]></description>
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			<title>Gulf Air union says sit-in planned over pay hikes</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Union calls on members to join protest over pay increases to senior staff.]]></description>
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			<title>Gulf Air starts process of replacing fleet</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Airline puts its first new fuel efficient plane into service as part of 5 year plan.]]></description>
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			<title>Gulf Air ups free baggage allowance for passengers</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Bahrain carrier set to increase free luggage allowance in all three classes from Oct 1.]]></description>
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			<title>Gulf Air set to expand Iraq services</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Flights to Najaf to become daily service plus Erbil route to start operations on Oct 26 - CEO.]]></description>
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			<title>Can he fix it?</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[How will Gulf Air's new CEO Samer Majali restore Bahrain's failing national carrier to commercial credibility?]]></description>
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			<title>Gulf Air CEO open to merger options</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Airline's new chief Samer Majali says strategy being worked on to find best way into profitability.]]></description>
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			<title>Bahrain's Gulf Air may renegotiate plane orders - CEO</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Route closures, job cuts, also possible once restructuring plans finalised.]]></description>
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			<title>Gulf Air sees online ticket sales up 160%</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The average number of airline tickets booked on the Bahrain carrier's site have increased dramatically.]]></description>
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			<title>Union claims 272 Gulf Air staff to be sacked</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Trade union alleges cutbacks within three months as part of airline restructuring plan.]]></description>
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			<title>Gulf Air to start route to Baghdad in September</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Carrier says it will become first GCC airline to offer direct flights to Iraq.]]></description>
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			<title>MPs call for cost-cutting at Bahrain's Gulf Air</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[But politicians still insist that laying off large numbers of nationals at carrier is off limits.]]></description>
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			<title>Bahrain sovereign fund posts $183m loss in 2008</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Mumtalakat hit by impairment charges linked to investments in GIB and GIC.]]></description>
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			<title>Gulf Air silent on new restructure rumours</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Bahraini carrier says announcement about airline's future due after new CEO takes up post next month.]]></description>
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			<title>Gulf Air to resume Iraqi service</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Bahrain’s national carrier will resume flights, 33 years after grounding its Iraq services.]]></description>
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			<title>Citibank-Gulf Air seal 'frequent flyer' deal</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Gulf Air frequent flyer programme members to have beneficial access to Citibank investment products.]]></description>
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			<title>Gulf Air mulls legal action against Paraguayan carrier</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Carrier Regional Paraguaya unveils livery almost identical to Bahraini operator.]]></description>
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			<title>Bjorn Naf steps down as Gulf Air CEO</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Swiss executive to leave post soon; Bahrain-based carrier declines to elaborate on his departure.]]></description>
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			<title>Etihad, Gulf Air not worried about new 787 delays</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Mideast carriers say latest setback to Boeing aircraft will have little impact on operations.]]></description>
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			<title>Gulf Air eyeing expansion amid global slowdown</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Bahrain carrier's CEO launches three new routes, hints more growth is on the way.]]></description>
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			<title>Gulf Air strikes codeshare deal with French railway</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Tie up lets passengers of Bahraini carrier travel on Gulf Air and Société Nationale.]]></description>
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			<title>Rolls-Royce announces $1.5bn Gulf Air deal</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Bahrain carrier inks agreement for power units for new fleet of A330s, to start 2012.]]></description>
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			<title>Mideast carriers wait on Airbus A330-200 verdict</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Gulf Air, Qatar Airways among airlines who use same model as in Air France tragedy.]]></description>
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			<title>Gulf Air silent as MPs postpone company probe</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Bahraini officials put off investigation into role of airline's expatriate leadership.]]></description>
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			<title>Gulf Air signs two-year London taxis marketing deal</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Agreement inked by Bahrain carrier to promote Heathrow route.]]></description>
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			<title>Gulf Air forms taskforce to fight swine flu threat</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Bahrain carrier takes action after Gulf state confirms first case of H1N1 flu.]]></description>
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