M.A. Yusuff Ali flies to Bahrain for food security talks with Crown Prince

M.A. Yusuff Ali flew from Abu Dhabi’s Al Bateen Executive Airport to Bahrain International Airport on June 21, a 42-minute hop in his Gulfstream G600, tail number T7-YMA. The brief trip, arriving at 2:35 PM local time, placed the retail magnate in Manama at a moment of heightened concern over food supply chains across the Gulf.

That same afternoon, Yusuff Ali met with HRH Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, the Crown Prince and Prime Minister of Bahrain, at Gudaibiya Palace, according to an official readout from the Crown Prince’s office [crownprince.bh](https://www.crownprince.bh/en/news/98659/). The meeting focused on ensuring the availability of essential consumer goods and maintaining supply chain stability during the current regional crisis. Yusuff Ali reaffirmed LuLu Group International’s commitment to securing food supplies for the kingdom, as part of a broader push that has seen the group charter over 110 aircraft shipments from multiple countries in recent weeks.

The Bahrain visit is the latest in a flurry of trips for Yusuff Ali. Just days earlier, on June 18, he was in New Delhi to brief Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the group’s food-export efforts, per a BusinessToday report [businesstoday.in](https://www.businesstoday.in/india/story/extremely-thankful-lulu-group-chief-hails-modi-govt-for-uninterrupted-food-exports-to-gcc-nations-522543-2026-03-26). The pattern is clear: as the West Asia conflict continues to strain logistics, the man behind the region’s biggest hypermarket chain is spending more time in the air—and in government palaces—than on the shop floor.