Originally Posted by
edy4eva
Nothing further from the truth. The person I mentioned gets rent allowance from EK not a 3rd party. He gets nothing from the government. As for FAs that share apartments in complexes, these complexes are contracted with EK as suppliers of accommodation (much like that contracted car rental company providing the fleet/personnel for the EK chauffeur drive service).
And who paid for the real estate and house on top of it? And who provided the financing? Emirates, DNATA, the Emirates Group?
Again, there is really no point trying to camouflage what is as obvious as it can be.
And, once again,
this is okay and has just been copied by the folks from other parts of the world running airlines for way more time than the NE3.
Housing, for example, was a big factor for SQ and CX as well back in the days...