This is a sad thread, a sad topic.
As I am fortunate enough to have found a job with a reasonable employer in union protected central Europe I am still free to speak my mind.
I will never buy a ticket from Etihad, and will discourage everyone I know from doing so as well. Do not throw your money at little dictators, mind controlers, small hung deskcaptains with an ego problem. Slavery has been abolished, even in the UAE.
Do not support it.
Nic