Good point from the person a few post previous...
Management could have known that the UAE (is that United Asshole Emirate??) is about to pull out of GF.
How else could they have made plans for JNB and DUB etc. We were short of aircraft as it is. And crews should be happy to have fewer night-stops at "Camp X-ray" (the joke of a "hotel" called "Armed Forces"). In any case, if BAH decides to can GF, they might as well shut down the country.