Layover allowance is paid in local currency at the hotel which [I]barely[I] covers food and drink for the time you're there.
No flight pay unless its overtime (ie you do over 76 hours in a 30 day month) at which point as an F/O you get dhs270 per hour of overtime (most guys are doing between 5-15 hours overtime a month).
Company provides accomodation and pays for all bills ie. water, gas (even gas for the BBQ), elec etc but not phone calls (albeit local calls are free in the UAE anyway)... Or you can take the allowance which is about dhs9000/month and find your own accom and pay your own bills.
So basically if you don't take any loans, and you don't have kids in school (you pay 10% of the school fees the company pays the rest), and you don't have any other personal outgoings you should have about $5000 to blow each month on booze and curry......... although it never seems to work out that way for some reason.
Now you will hear from about eleventy ten people telling you how 'kin expensive Dubai is blah blah blah etc etc
Those are the facts.