"Starting a dialogue with management".
If you really believe that is possible - to reason with the unreasonable, that it hasn't been tried a million times and ways - you truly have zero, absolutely less than no clue about Emirates, that part of the world, or the culture.
I suggest you forget about gleaning the details of expenses in Dubai. Your information is more fundamentally lacking: you have not one whit of the reality of being an EK employee, if you really believe anything can be accomplished by attempting what in most parts of the world seems logical.
The corporate culture is one of bullying, intimidation, and patronization. There is no choice, which is why so many are voting with their feet, and why so few are coming. The word is out, no matter what you choose to believe.