It doesn’t matter what the economic reasons are for the prices being higher, it matters that they are and that salaries are not keeping up. The salary is still OK, but just that....OK. Would I move from the West now to EK? Probably not, would I move back to Europe now? Probably not, however the s@@t bucket is filling very rapidly.
Discounts for coffee and the like are great, but the costs still remain far higher than many western cities. Would anyone in there right mind move here because they get discounted coffee?
Unfortunately the majority of positive comments here seem to come from non EK pilots and the majority of negative some from EK pilots. Choose who you decide to believe. Contributors to these threads are not always who they seem ......