Unskilled migrant workers in DXB are quite irrelevant to the subject about fares paid and is a red herring if the point is to try and make it seem that DXB-India flights are all full of el-cheapo pax.

The truly poor migrant workers don't get to go back home and stay for many years (willingly or unwillingly is a matter for a different forum). They send money back to family, but don't see them. Thus they do not form the customer base.

Low paid migrant workers who go do go back to visit friends and relatives do not fly EK - they fly on cheaper carriers such as flydubai, or Air Arabia from Sharjah.

EK is the high cost option for O&D to DXB and there are plenty of cheaper alternatives: especially if you look at the airlines serving DXB. Anyone who has been to T2 or indeed T1 can attest to this.

So really we're talking about pax who earn enough money to have an okay standard of living - especially considering most migrant workers at this level (buying Y tickets for once a year tickets) have living expenses paid for and keep all their money/send it back, they are quite frugal. So really, EK doesn't have to adjust its fares to support these pax - they have no mandate from the government to offer low cost migrant workers journeys home: that is either not part of the package or employers will pay for it.

Then you have the wealthier professional expats who all have annual leave allowances from their employers in various cabins. They will be paying good fares.

Thus EK continues to rely on its 90% transit traffic for volume, and charges extra high margins for DXB O&D pax.

I don't think EK really attracts that many GCC migrant workers transiting through DXB who are paying low fares - migrant workers who do that are likely to be earnings $$$/airfare paid by employer in J/F, and so the low yield insinuation fails.