Fair? Are you new to the Middle East?

A 5% VAT will increase most prices by about 10% as stores will take the opportunity to increase prices by more than the VAT amount and use 'the cost of administrating the tax' as justification for the extra increase.

Opt in now available

The freeze does not apply to people who are mid move. i.e. they've been approved for the opt out by email.

Soon to be mandatory.

Finally a smart move.

That should have been the first policy change not second. Lots of guys who came for the single life a few years back now married with wee ones & renting. Good option If you don't trust the property market and don't want to be a slave to landlord as your family grows etc.

Decoupling from EK in a hurry down the rd a lot easier if not off loading a property.

Not for everyone but finally some outside the box thinking 👍

I have some question guys,
The 2 new áreas that emirates is allocating the pilots seem to be meydan heights and meydan south. There are 2 very close international schools, hartland and kent. Do you know if the company has any type of agreement with them? Or you Just pay the fees that the school have in their website?
Do these areas have community pools and gym? I can only see one Per area in Google earth, How are they? Any comment?
Any feedback from people that actually live there?
Many thanks.

Relax,
 

everyone needs to relax a little on this,
The reality is that what is being passed as fact is simply people running their month and using pprune as donald trump would use his twitter account.

Most pilots at ek have not been through a correction before and are therefore scared.
Put off any big purchases for the next few months and lets see how this plays out.

I suspect we will have a clearer picture of what is happening by March or April.

Ps the above is my version of running my mouth.

Sorry guys if someone has mentioned this in the thread I didn't read through it all. I haven't been here as long as Don and a few other posters that seen the previous crash and witnessed the allowance/move out option removed for a time. But as far as I know this is the first time EK has invested in a huge housing project that they've built themselves i.e. Meydan. It surely makes sense to the bean counters if they can build a villa for 150,000aed from scratch, (guess no idea the exact figure) then offering 160-190K a year for you to opt out is in there minds a huge drain on $. I think that this might not be as temporary as we'd like to think. I'm renting and obvs didn't receive the email. But if it comes to no allowance for renters then for me and a I think a good few more it would be time to go.
Only my 2 cents

You guys make me laugh. Pprune at its finest!

c-130 SCORPION

In answer to your question, no, there is no agreement. There doesn't need to be.

KENT school is the same school, in name and ethos, as KENT school in the UK. It was the very same UK school that the President of EK went to. He is, as far as I'm aware, a major shareholder in this new school. It is no coincidence that it's been built in such a location as to have a captive audience. Some may argue it's good business sense, others that it's taking advantage of position and contacts.

All we need to know is that it's a school right next door to your pilots' estate and reduces the time the wife spends driving her Prado. Anything that keeps you off the road with the idiots has got to be a good thing......right? :hmm:

Harry

So that's why people call him a Kent.

First blood of the New Year to Don 👍😂

it is also nice that we are titled customers or clients in the accomodation department.
gives a clear sign, we are not even employees, therefore not part of the big.
treated like dealing with a broker. next step will be we have to pay an agent fee before getting a contracted benefit.

@sands thanks for clearing that up, anyone have the figures for Capt/FO?

'Still available'
 

That would surprise me since we got an email saying there's a freeze of at least 6 months....

Where do you get yr info from?

I requested an opt out in December then told May would be the move out date. The email appeared on January 4, so I guessed that would be a month delay with the freeze. Then out of the blue, an email from Accommodations stating that they have approved my opt out date in May and have notified payroll of my request to have the Allowance paid 15 days in advance to the move.

Take that as you will...

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