Gulf Air has been announcing for years now that it will buy new aircraft. Hopefully it eventually will, it needs them, and the pilots have been waiting some time for some good news.
I wouldn't hold my breath in hearing anything in "the next few weeks" as the chairman put it..i think their definition of a few weeks is somewhat different than the rest of the world's. Eventually they'll be forced to do it by the simple fact of the ones they have spending more time on the ground being fixed than flying. It's going to take alot of debate and making sure the right people in Bahrain get a piece of the action...the more things change the more they remain the same.
Best of luck to all the crew at GF.