777-up,
Bankruptcy? Would have already happened if it was going to...
I don't know if you have friends in other industries, but if you do, talk and start listening to them. The bailout (of Dubai) that occurred last time courtesy of Abu Dhabi won't, (because they no longer have the means), happen again. The UAE is in trouble - talk to those outside of aviation. Don't fall into the 'Too Big To Fail' mindset, history has proven over and over what happens when people start believing that fallacy. *Do I think that EK will go bankrupt? No. But you can't say it will never happen.
Accident(s)? Even if it does (hope not) will never lead to shut down...
No, but if EK bury a 380 there is going to be immense brand damage done, that will lead to the loss of a LOT of jobs. For a long time.
Can't get pilots? Pay raise & other improvements fix it...
Are you new? Genuine question, because if you've been around for a while you'd realise that EK has been hurting for pilots for a long time because it isn't in a position to throw money to fix the problems anymore. Why do you think they have lowered the requirements to Turbo-Prop (not a go at T-P guys but rather at EK arrogance of not long ago - "We will never recruit non-Jet qualified pilots") and 2000hr jet jockeys? Why do you think all of the cost-cutting is occurring? Why do you think all the new 'revenue-raising' ideas are jumping up everyday?
Your wishing it on us (with or without justification) doesn't make it so. What are we missing, that would cause your predicted total shut down & massive sorrow for those who remain?
No, but he feels like most of us who have left and voiced something which deep down I will say he doesn't want to happen. In the most sincere case of schadenfreude I too have moments of wishing EK would go bust in the ugliest of manners, to completely destroy the arrogant rulers of the company. But that's the point isn't it? It won't destroy them, it'll destroy the 60,000 families of the employees of EK, but not those who deserve it most. So the occasional moments when I sit with a G&T and ponder the pleasure of watching those immature, arrogant, senseless and completely ill-equipped-for-the-job managers get their comeuppance are fleeting, because I know that the pain I want to inflict won't occur where it deserves to.