Nobody will be Dubai based they say that to pull in the Punters for the positions, they are so desperate ( and always have been ) for crew they will dress up there recruitment drive as much as possible, most of the crew live in Bahrain,Dubai and Saudi and when overnighting at 'Home' you are payed 50 bucks ( INSULT), you are always always in Dubai and Saudi thats where Bex generate all there biz so it kinda seems you are based there, they hardly have any clients out of Bahrain, Bahrain is there FBO and where all BEXs MX is delt with, so your mate may want to get an apartment rather than live out of the dumpy Dubai Renaisance!!! and when in Saudi you can get put into some real dumps if the Marriot(which always is supposedly 'overbooked')is not availible.
If he can handle the pace best to get hours and get right out! if thats what hes after.
etracafe you were only there for two weeks and belive me if you had stuck around longer im positive your outlook would be compleatly different, the new Ops guy is worse than that of before and none of what is on this thread are rummors every word is most certainly for real past and present!!!