My understanding is that this particular baby is a scheme created by VP Corporate Strategy - BN's right hand man - in order to create havoc for Bahrain Air at their launch. A shot across the bow if you like; I would suggest this is normal practise - but not so sure GF is in a healthy enough state to be going this far - especially as passengers in this region on those routes are perhaps more fickle than most. I guess this will have no long term impact on Bahrain Air at all but will hit Gulf Air's revenues.