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From the FlyPHANUK gallery on Flightglobal AirSpace, here's a great shot of one of Mount Cook Airline's ATR 72-500s (a 1999-built airframe, ZK-MCJ) to illustrate the grounding of some of its fleet due to hairline cracks around the windows. 

Credit: FlyPHANUK on Flightglobal/AirSpace

Bahrain is the latest Middle Eastern state to put down a marker in the third-party MRO marketplace. The kingdom's airline Gulf Air has wrestled with its MRO options since Bahrain's split with former fellow-owners, Abu Dhabi, Oman and Qatar. In the glory days of Gulf Air, maintenance was the job of Gulf Aircraft Maintenance (Gamco) in Abu Dhabi. However, shortly after the launch of Etihad as the new Abu Dhabi-based United Arab Emirates national airline, Gamco was renamed Abu Dhabi Aircraft Technologies and Gulf Air withdrew its business. After a dalliance with SR Technics - now majority owned by Abu Dhabi's investment company Mubadala - Bahrain has turned eastwards and teamed with Singapore's SIA Engineering (SIAEC). Continue reading...

SIAEC maintains Gulf Air aircraft in Bahrain. Here is an SIAEC engineer performing engine work.