I don't work here for the love of it, PK. I work here because, at this point, staying here is the best option for me and my family. If that stops being the case, I'll leave.
I am certainly not blind to the limitations of Dubai as a place or EK as an employer, but I'm ALSO aware of how things are elsewhere in the world.
Thing is, you can spend all the time you like comparing what is to what was. It's irrelevent unless what ELSE is now available is better.
I don't think I've contiously contradicted anyone on PPRUNE who has a legitimate beef with EK (indeed, I have a few myself!!), though I know I have inadvertantly on at least one occasion questioned a rumour that turned out to be true!.
But when people write pure BS (not saying you did, but it IS a trifling amount!!) I do feel it necessary to point it out, just to give some type of balance to the information being posted.