Gulf Air came in second with 90.77% on-time performance, and Japan Airlines placed third with 90.24%.
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"It arrived OK, the check was OK and it left OK, " said a member of Gulf Air's ground staff.
Gulf Air officials in Cairo have said there was nothing wrong with the plane when it took off for Bahrain.
Bahrain's Gulf Air started flights to three Iraqi cities last year and will add two more by the end of 2010.
Abdulemam worked as an IT specialist for the Bahraini airline Gulf Air.
He also knows the Persian Gulf states well, having lived in Bahrain as President of Gulf Air, a company that was partially funded by the rulers of Abu Dhabi, a city in the United Arab Emirates.
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He flew 266 combat missions in Vietnam but is best known for masterminding the Gulf war air campaign in 1991.
Retired Air Force Colonel John A. Warden III flew 266 combat missions in Vietnam but is best known for masterminding the Gulf war air campaign in 1991.
Skeptics point out that global warming is expected to warm Arctic air masses more than Gulf of Mexico air masses, which will therefore diminish the contrast between the two air masses and reduce the strength and likelihood of tornadoes.
Thanks to the Lockerbie disaster, the Gulf war and a recession, air travel then fell for two years in a row.
Tornadoes are most likely when exceptionally cold, dry air plunges south to violently clash with warm, moist air originating in the Gulf of Mexico.
Nevertheless, during the Gulf war in 1991 the American air force found that its 2, 000lb (about a tonne) bunker-busters were incapable of piercing some Iraqi bunkers.
Now, like the simultaneous air sorties of the Gulf war, a battalion of seven Bama executives fans out to meet with McDonald's franchisees, regional division heads, and buying cooperatives to discuss new products.
In Libya, all 28 NATO allies played a role and we were joined by partners in the air from Sweden to the Gulf states.
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The U.S.-led air assault that launched the Gulf War began one day after the expiration of a United Nations deadline for Iraq's withdrawal from Kuwait.
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On the return trip from his ranch in Crawford, Texas, Air Force One flew over the Gulf Coast.
The Iraqi air force, devastated by the Gulf War, had only 80 to 100 operational combat aircraft, according to Periscope.
They get their initial power and instability from the difference in temperature between the very hot Sahara air and the substantially cooler air along the coast of the Gulf of Guinea.
Chase Fieler had 3-pointers to start and cap an 11-0 run, raising his hands in the air after the second that put Gulf Coast ahead 15-4 and led to a timeout by Florida coach Billy Donovan less than 7 minutes into the game.
Just prior to the war in Iraq, Phillips became the first female journalist to fly in an F-14 air-to-air combat training mission over the Persian Gulf.
He served at the Pentagon as the Air National Guard commander and was directly involved in planning the use of Air National Guard forces during the Persian Gulf War.
Some 3, 000 U.S. troops man the al-Udeid air base in Qatar, just across the gulf from Iraq.
LifePoint's device measures drugs in saliva by using a chemical the Navy used during the Gulf War to detect biological or chemical weapons in the air.
Only last month, it fired one in the Gulf of Mexico towards a test range at the Eglin US Air Force Base in western Florida.
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"I expect ... a whole set of standards (last) used during the Gulf War, " says David Stempler, president of the Air Travelers Association, an organization representing airline passengers.
"We don't take ourselves too seriously, " said Florida Gulf Coast coach Andy Enfield, whose players tossed him in the air and doused him with water in a raucous celebration before his postgame interviews.
The alarmists claim global warming will cause more and stronger tornadoes because the Gulf of Mexico will become warmer, enhancing the contrast between the two air masses.
The plaintiffs, property owners on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, accused the industrial companies of spewing greenhouse gases into the air and helping to cause global warming, rising waters, hurricanes and all manner of other natural disasters.
Air Partner started out in 1961 as a local air charter firm, but the evacuation work took off during the Gulf war, when it airlifted 800 multinational employees.
This suggests the possibility that some of the revolutionary air of the Arab Spring art may eventually penetrate the bubble of the Gulf art scene.
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