No Welcome to the award winning airline.
That has increased the hours worked without a by or leave. Rosters East and West as it sees fit, but you try and roster swop that way to try and improve your lifestyle with days off, the system rejects you.
The caring Airline that has repeatedly failed to raise pay to anything like inflation for several years, that also requires ground engineers to work compulsory overtime. That can if needs must, roster you into overtime without even asking if you would mind.
42 days leave forget it, and if you have Kids well you might be able to go on holiday with them once every 3 or 4 years, thats if they remember who you are, other than the grumpy old git who just comes and goes and strange times of the day and night.
Married well I hope you have a better divorce lawyer than your wife shall we say.
The luxury villas great if you fancy living in something akin to 1970's style Chinese workers compounds, go google Meydan Heights/South.
From the training meetings we are about 450 pilots short of what we need, and there is a dam good reason for that. The glitz and glamour of that wide body soon wear off and then its just another aeroplane punching a hole in the sky on its 14Hr flight somewhere, where you can have a 24Hr layover, but wait thats 24hrs from shed. brakes on to shed. brakes off, so by the time you get to your hotel you might have 18hrs to recover before heading home to Dubai in the summer where its a lovely 40c +.