S/ L As a rather senior chappie in GF going to Gulf Traveller you no doubt are maintaining your GF salary whilst Canuck will be on an entirely different lower scale Yes???
As an ex GF I am well aware that the Indian sub continent is the mainstay of the business for all Middle East Airlines and if you like spending your life going to Dhaka,Trivandrum,Karachi,Bombay,Delhi,etc etc then good for you.
You say Airlines in the ME are expanding. Yes that is so except GF who are still a lot smaller than when I left!! Financially GF is the most vulnerable as AUH holds the purse strings. Is that why you are going there??
I have never regretted my move elsewhere to a better part of the world and routes .. Its horses for courses but as Canuck was enquiring,GF traveller is an experiment which might fail. Can you explain the huge number of complaints from those within GF who are being force marched to Abu Dhabi????