Problem is that Dubai is broke and Emirates needs Pilots. So they tried, in their infinite arrogance, to do both: Making it look like they increase pay to attract new joiners and keep geezers around a few more years as well as secure the profit payments to the Dubai Government by not ACTUALLY paying that much more.
They've failed at either goal.
Posts like these are pretty good at documenting that the "pay review" is actually just a smoke and mirror exercise at pretending to increase the pay significantly while actually not doing much at all.
Going through my rosters over the last year and parse how many turns, DXB sign-ins and ground delays and diversion I've had, I've calculated that I'd get about a 5000 dhs increase PER YEAR... Which comes out to about 1% pay raise.
Not enough to continue to risk my medical for this... So, yeah. Bye bye.
Only question is how many potential new joiners are going to be deterred by this?