I find it quite incredible that anyone would have thought that the Embraer was a suitable aircraft for Gulf Air (particularly on routes like ATH, IST, LCA) due to payload issues and of course the baggage problem.
Surely everyone knows what kind of pax GF carries and how a large majority of them take everything but the kitchen stove with them when they fly.
It really does beggar belief (incidentally, why the hell do we use that phrase?) that such a basic piece of information could have been overlooked.
But that my friends is GF. Incompetence taken to a level never previously dreamed of.