white knight,
you have a cool roster and a n easy life regardess of the economc climate ecause the emirates that back emirates will not loose face. So enjoy your existance by all means but dont delude yourslf as to the source of your lifesyle funding. your existance is dependant on arabic ego and oil money not reality.
no reality airline (financialy speaking)could have such an overhead for expat creature comforts.
enjoy. you are all not much more than the hired (help) acceptable faces for a culture driven by image.
emirates is this decades gulf air, and i'm sure qatar is the next to take up the mantle.
i have one word for you "indigensation" when they have had enuf of you.
and no sour grapes i think you ave a great lifstyle but it is manufactured not market driven.
dont forget the factor 20