Emirates has never been a big payer, it's always sat in the middle group. And 10 years ago this didn't matter. Those who joined either by design or more often by circumstance found good flying and a city that was easy to live in. So the money was enough.
Not anymore. Dubai is becoming a hardship posting and the money doesn't cut it anymore.
YYZs points are well made but singularly or collectively they wouldn't drive me out of EK.
The two things that will and are driving me out are working a short haul/long haul/ultra long haul roster with short haul rest patterns month in month out and the increasing misery and sometimes fear of negotiating the traffic in Dubai.
As chuck kindly pointed out if the work and the driving don't get me first then the ulcer will.
QUOTE=Chimbu chuckles;3069812]Thanks Theidler deconstruct away..................and leave you to your developing ulcer
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