Gulf Air must reduce its costs. We operate 30 ish aircraft with around 5000 thousand employees. We were a legacy carrier at one point but the time is now to reduce costs. The flight crew are operating at the maximum. Ryan air for example (although they are a low cost carrier) operate 32 employees per aircraft. We have to shift from a legacy carrier mentallity to a low cost carrier mentallity (we must have a network to take the regional pax somewhere). The fact of the matter is we have to reduce managment. The embraer aircraft are cheap to purchcase... dont know about maintenence or durability in the desert. Generally speaking, a low cost carrier runs with fleet commonality... for a variety of reasons (training, sims, parts maint etc.) We cannot afford to run with deep pockets like Abu Dahbi and Qatar. We could however, keep fleet commonanity and remain airbus with all pilots CCQ on all types which would maximise air crew utilization and minimize training costs. Run with 319 LRS to develope potentional markets in Europe and Africa in line with the "Bahrain business friendly" model. Rebuild the airline and the country.