Do we want to have the airline controlled by them as well? What do you think?

Well, the whole thing is very complex.

I would say for Air France, this may actually end up proving to be a blessing in disguise that they didn't get TAP, Air Portugal.

Why is that? Because there are quite a few problems.

If you look at the two bids that were made, so Air France offered a lower bid, a lower price, but there would have been shares in the company for the Portuguese government.

Lufthansa... made a higher bid and offered to pay cash, just pay for the airline.

I find it rather striking because the Air France bid would have meant that both Air France and the Portuguese government would have had a vested interest in seeing the airline succeed.

Why so much sadness or just avgeek nostalgia?

And then you have many, many question marks about how this pilot was able to get through the system.

Well, I think it is probably quite bad, mainly because this is drawing wider circles that do not only focus on fly Dubai the airline.

When Israel and the United Arab Emirates decided to normalize relations and start regular scheduled passenger flights between the two countries, it was agreed that the United Arab Emirates would operate their flights with cruise flights that were nationals of countries that entertain diplomatic relations with Israel.

Oman is not one of those countries which raises the question as to how this pilot got on that flight in the first place.

He shouldn't have been operating that flight according to the agreement between the two states.

There are other questions that also involve the Omanis.

For example, the fact that several news outlets have now reported that the first officer had had his license suspended because apparently he had been radicalized.

Yeah, the global pilot shortage that everyone talks