Ollie Onion,
How are these "average" costs per Employee calculated?
I would suggest that as Emirates have a lot more contractors working for them than Qantas, then the cost "per employee" is not quite accurate.
This same formula was used by Brett Godfrey, when he claimed that Virgin Blue, after Ansetts collapse, had carried the same number or more passengers that year, than Ansett did the previous year, but Virgin had done it with far less staff!
Same issue, half of Virgins staff were contractors, not employees,were as virtually all Ansetts staff were employees!
You really need to know the total number of People working for the Airline, Employees, Contractors, Consultants alike to make a more meaningful
comparison.