No matter whats on offer when you are flying as an expat, there is no place like home!
Even if the paysheme is only half of what you are making now, people will ALWAYS prefer to be at home!
Reason: you are protected there, you are not considered a guest without any rights, you can speak up and you have the feeling you are actually building on an airline that belongs partly to yourself!
That is why airlines with lots of experience in expat recruitment ( nobody in the ME but airlines like Cathay Pacific or SIA ) will try to make pilots to stay by offering them a career opportunity, from the day they joined untill the day they retire. This includes transparent promotion plans, retirement plans, provident funds, profit sharing, housing solutions ( preferrabble investment sollutions where employees can invest in their own houses etc...)
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This is where the ME airlines have it so so wrong and if they do not change these policies, they will loose the battle in the very near future!
Good luck to our Egyptian colleagues....
Le Seigneur de L'Atlantique