BM you really are hopeless aren't you.
So, agreed MNL and maybe KUL could be viewed as long haul being 7 and 10 hour sectors, but the rest? RUH and JED! Get real, if a 2 hour block time is long haul then you really are not from "Planet Earth, obviously!" And the 'hopping' around the Gulf (and yes GF did for a long time use a 340 on a 12 minute flight BAH-DMM for quite some time) in these aircraft is nothing more than ridiculous.
I was getting at high cycled long haul aircraft, these aircraft are designed for a very different operation to that that GF uses them for, be it 40 minutes or 2 hours, it is a sad waste of money caused predominatly by bad scheduling. This cascades to tired and under-productive crew from an expensive and inefficient operation. That was the point of my initial reply.
You on the other hand rely on 'your sources' who are in fact close to (or are) the people (IMHO) who are entirley (ir)responsible for most of GF's continued negative-growth (to coin a PC phrase!).