Can we please stop with the comparisons with EK and The Majors? There is no comparison unless one likes to be treated like crap with veiled threats and substandard pay.
A Delta narrowbody Captain makes more than a Emirates widebody captain and works considerably less in far more humane conditions. Full stop and end of discussion. I know I have worked at both. How many of the posters here can say the same? Some I know but certainly not even close to half.
We can argue about T and Cs hourly rates days off anything at all but the big takeaway is at the end of each month I have more money in my pocket and I feel a whole helluva lot better than I did at EK. No question and it’s not even close.
This just makes me think when pilots try and defend Emirates what are they trying to defend and why the defense? There is no comparison!