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Hello again, I hope all is well!
1) Command. The way it stands is three years and 6000 hrs. If however you have the 1000 hrs command on jets prior to joining, you may have a shot at command a little earlier, although, not by much.
2) Accomodation policy. This is the company's bean counters 'fixing costs.' It is purely an accounting issue. There certainly were people in the past who refused certain standards of housing when the company offered it to them. In most cases those refusals were spot on! One very important aspect of accomodation, is ensuring that your family is satisfied with where they are going to be living for a long time. If they're not happy, pretty soon the euphoria of having joined wears off very quickly.
So now, the company will offer you housing, hoping that you refuse it! There costs towards housing is fixed at 95,040Dhs. For something descent, you need to pay 130,000Dhs and up, per annum. Your salary as an F/O starts at 16,000 Dhs. Of which a minimum of 10,000Dhs per month will go to living expenses in Dubai. Now you pay for car,RENT,water and lights eating out etc.
The 10,000dhs a month is based on an assumption that your family consists of spouse and two kids.
After three years as F/O, your salary will go from approx 17,800 up to 22,200Dhs. First line Captain. You then have another seventeen years ahead of you to reach the current top end scale of 38,400.
Schooling, is becoming very space limited, whether Emirates reserves seats or not,the situation is becoming more and more critical. One kid in school X and kiddie number two in school Y. If there are seats available!!
The time to have joined emirates was from about five years ago and earlier. From a financial point of you, and then again your investment of this money earned as salary had to be shrewd.
Good Luck!
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