Originally Posted by
aviation_enthus
Because it’s an expat airline. Please enlighten me of any other predominantly expat airlines that offer unpaid leave?
Also worth remembering that ‘unpaid leave’ still had various allowances paid by the company. So in reality EK are not getting to hold on to staff for free.
They just don’t need the same number of staff. When they do I’m sure they’ll rehire and have plenty of applicants to choose from.
most of the Far East expat orientated airlines have offered unpaid leave schemes...