Wow, retiring after only 20 years of 'productivity'! My dad for instance has been going for 46 years already and has got another 7 to go before retiring. IF they don't extend the retirement age again. They would have a right old fit here, that's already a 2 person productivity rolled in one and not even there yet.
What's also not helping is that lots of local people don't bother paying debts, be it water/elec/land/mortgages etc. This is how it was explained to me. After 10 or 20 years the debt is so humongus and obviously its never going to be collected. There seems to be now law stipulating you have to repay. Then the king wipes all those debts and the money is never collected and thus never reaches the goverment depriving the country of income. Again, this is how it was explained to me and could be totally b*s. Anyway I am sidetracking now, back to Gulf Air...