was a flight attendant with EK till recently.Everything in the middle east is done with a veil-everything happens there-its just under the radar and discreet. there are plenty of gay flight attendants and some more obvious than others.unless you insist on wearing a female flight attendants uniform or nail varnish and red lipstick or the likes nobody will really pick on you for your sexual preferences. but you must realise that homosexuality is against the law in U.A.E. and if you are caught and you can be proscecuted and your company EK and EY will happily wash their hands of you.
Also there seems to be a bit of the recession back lash hitting the middle east with passenger loads down,recruitment being put on hold and crew being offered indefinite unpaid leave,rumour mills say about 300 crew are taking this option.So maybe you should hold onto your permanent position in BA- a lot of our English crew would be quite happy to trade places with you .
And Emirates is not the same great place to work as it used to be 5 years ago -lots of work n not too much of quality timeoff.....
Some food for thought-but being gay in EK is definitely ok!
