Silicon Oasis is ok people there like it, 2-4 years things will be built up out there.
Dubai not the nice place it use to be.
Traffic is down right dangerous.
Cost of living going up all the time by 15-20% with no control.
Lots of corruption which will piss you off.
You would be lucky to get a string of days off in 2 months back to back, it would have to be in your top 2 bid months, but the loads are high everywhere.
Average 9 days off a month for the year,maybe 10.
The road show s are saying upgrade 3-4 years but we have a back log right now,unless they are factoring in guys leaving which is going to increase soon.
Either EY or QR(ad in Flight) look like they are going for offline basing if they do EK will have a tuff time getting pilots on the current package, already feeling that.
Latest is Nad Al sheba gone , golf going to go way up in price , they never did care for EPC members anyway.Glad I did not get the new clubs, that being said there might be a fire sale at Nad soon.