Emirates cabin pressure rises as crews feel global airline upturn

Emirates faces calls from its cabin crew to improve conditions and benefits as airline workers show increasing confidence in demanding more from the booming global industry. Emirates cabin crew raised the issues at meetings last week with the airline. Labour disputes are rare in Dubai and unions and industrial action, common elsewhere in the industry, are banned. But in an indication of the strength of feeling among its staff, management at Emirates, whose chief operations officer Adel al-Redha led the talks, have asked for time to consider the requests, employees said. Employees said cabin crew were pursuing changes including to rest periods on long flights and rosters. <br/>