Patience dear ironbutt. Time will prove me right. It is just common sence that AUH cannot have 2 airlines. EY will want to expand rapidly into India, Pakistan, and KSA. However, it will hit into two big stumbling blocks: Traffic Rights and airport slots. They are not easily obtained and EY will try their best to take them from GF. Already the two airlines are fighting over CAI traffic rights and it is becoming pretty bloody. If that happens, then GF will itself withdraw from AUH. In any case, by this time next year, AUH will no longer be part of GF. Again, all this is just common sense. Recall the same thing happened with Qatar 3 years ago (they kept on saying that they backed GF until the last minute before they withdrew). This is no different. If you have any theories of your own, I would love to hear them.