Originally Posted by
Speedbird744
I think one reason why there are so few Americans in the ME is because of them still having to pay income taxes like normal US residents.
Well that’s incorrect!
They are exempt from tax on the first $120,000 of their Foreign Earned Income. The reason they all left (and stopped coming to) the ME is because they can easily make $200,000+ as a LCC FO with 15+ days off a month. At one point the largest pilot nationality at EK was Americans… they left simply because the Terms and Conditions, and opportunities got much better back home.