Hello from Dubai!<\/p>\n
As you might have seen, it\u2019s been fairly quiet over right here on The Dubai Diaries. I\u2019m positive I don\u2019t want to say why, however as you’ll be able to think about the aviation trade has been impacted massively by the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n
I’m very lucky to nonetheless have a job, not like a lot of my pals and colleagues who’ve sadly been made redundant. However, compared to my standard busy rosters, I\u2019ve hardly been flying since March, though slowly issues are beginning to choose again up a bit. That\u2019s to not say extra redundancies gained\u2019t occur; at this level it appears no person is aware of when the airline trade will get better. I can solely preserve my fingers crossed that I’m one of many fortunate ones who will get to maintain this job that I really like a lot.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I joined Emirates with the prospect of travelling the world and exploring unknown locations, and for the time being that\u2019s sadly not potential. We have been instructed to stay in our lodge always on layovers, which normally could be the very last thing I might do when arriving at a brand new vacation spot! Nevertheless, I\u2019m comfortable to see any flight seem on my roster because it means some a lot wanted flying hours.<\/p>\n We receives a commission a fundamental wage which was minimize by 50% up till October, and flying hours which make up the remainder of the wage. With nearly no flights, this was fairly a drastic pay minimize. As extra flights return, slowly I\u2019m seeing a rise of flying hours on my roster. Since we stopped all flights in March, I had 4 flights in complete between April \u2013 August. (Normally I might common 8-10 flights per 30 days!).<\/p>\n The firm was providing unpaid go away for as much as 4 months at a time, so I selected to take 1 month unpaid go away in September and journey dwelling to stick with dad and mom. Combined with 10 days regular annual go away firstly of October, I used to be additionally in a position to go to my sister in Valencia. Our plan had been to go to Colombia, however I suppose we\u2019ll simply have to attend a bit bit longer for that! It was pretty to have the ability to spend a lot time with my household, as below regular circumstances I might by no means be capable to take 6 weeks off at a time, so for that I’m very grateful.<\/p>\n After my go away, I had 3 flights in October \u2013 Zurich, Frankfurt and Heathrow. As for my November roster, it\u2019s as follows:<\/p>\n As issues stand, these flights are nonetheless on my roster, and I simply bought again from Houston a few days in the past. Things change so quickly for the time being \u2013 I may have one roster firstly of the month and one thing fully totally different by the top. Fingers crossed nothing modifications this month as I\u2019m tremendous comfortable to have so many flying hours.<\/p>\n I’ll do my greatest to maintain updating right here, nevertheless my regular layovers are not any extra, and I\u2019m positive no person is especially fascinated with understanding which Netflix sequence I spend my layovers watching and what I order from room service! If there\u2019s something you\u2019d like me to write down about on right here, be sure you go away a remark beneath. Thanks for sticking with me!<\/p>\n P.s. Follow me on\u00a0Instagram<\/a>,\u00a0Facebook<\/a>\u00a0&\u00a0Twitter<\/a>\u00a0for extra day-to-day updates of the place I’m on the earth! ????<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n \t\t\t<\/p>\n \t<\/p><\/div>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/thedubaidiaries.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/fPpWvCjQCieeYioQj56sg-e1604934025859.jpg)
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