After 33 years with Gulf Air, most senior Bahraini pilot, Captain Abdul Sattar Al Alawi retired from service.
Undersecretary for Civil Aviation Affairs and his longtime friend and colleague Captain Abdulrahman Al Gaoud, Gulf Air deputy CEO Captain Maher Al Musallam, COO Captain Nasser Al Salmi, director flight operations Captain Hassan Falamarzi  and a large number of his colleagues turned out to wish him good luck.