Originally Posted by
Rightup
everyone was worked like a slave beforehand. Money is better than regional, but does not touch any career airline when considering the hours worked.
A 24 hour layover at an airport hotel after a long flight is not seeing the world.
If people were truly worked like slaves there (e.g. long hours and little pay to compensate) no one would work for Emirates. It’s that simple. Plenty of pilots there are expats that can easily leave for their own country without being pressured by the UAE. Unless you work for them, I’m betting you got that information from pprune.org
As far as 24-hour layovers are concerned, that’s not true. Plenty of EK pilots have mentioned elsewhere that they’re around 48 hrs usually. Plus, you’re going to visit the locations more than once so that “48 hours” isn’t all you’re experiencing.