The problem is that to return to profitability the plan was to cut routes and STAFF. Yet they never cut the staff!!!!!!!!!
So they rethink and decide to grow the airline with the current staff levels (though I don't know if they can do that successfully) - which is a great way around the problem of not being able to cut staff - grow it to the size it should be for the staff level. You know - keep the government and those idiot MP's happy.
But this was planned pre-fuel crisis time and now EVERY airline is hurting. The question to ask is how long will the Bahraini government be willing to accept not only the current losses but double that (or close to it anyway) when the fleet doubles??!!!!!
Then again they may have accepted these losses in the growth planning. Us pleabes can only guess.