Why do you keep defending Emirates? They treat their staff like crap and could not care less about you or any of its employees.
800 dhs a month baggage handler and the minute he gets sick its back to his 3rd world country thank you very much.
They do not honor contracts unless it suits them.
They fly you over 90 plus hours a month and that is all hard time, in the middle of the night with two pilots and no credit time whatsoever. Most pilots at Emirates have no idea what credit time is or ever experienced it however.
Here are some facts not mentioned;
Emirates labor costs are 13% of their budget. Most LCCs are more than twice that and legecy carriers approach three times that. Emirates will kill any airline it comes across.
If you want competition it must be fair for all involved. 1st world airlines can not pay their unskilled labor $200 a month. First of all it is illegal and what kind of worker would you get for that price even if you could pay that?
The jobs that Emirates would provide in Canada would be min wage at best. They would go to the local FBO and hire a local mechnic for probably $15 an hour and ramp workers for $8/hr. These are the jobs Emirates say they will give Canada.
Meanwhile since Emirates has slave labor and very little income tax they will literally kill AC. The $40,000 baggage handler goes away and so does the taxes he pays. The Canadian government will now have to pay for the low wage workers insurance, pension and dental because Emirates will not. Also the gov't will have to pay the laid off AC worker unemployement. This is what you want? Just so the good people of Canada can have cheap seats?
There is very little market between the UAE and Canada. All Emirates wants to do is swing the Indians and take market share. I say give it to the airlines that pay a decent wage and honors its contracts and obligations.