Well this...
We would have hoped that there would have been at least some consultation we the pilots before the decision on DECs were made...there was not. There is also no body which represents the pilots to the management on any issue...too close to a union for comfort.
The fact remains that with better planning the training system would have been in a much healthier state to cope with the known expansion. Instead it has been depleated to the extent that we are now faced with the more expensive and damaging option of DECs... and it still needs to gear up even now.
I believe that there is still time to invoke the right of 'parle' to try and offer a more constructive way forward that would be in all our interests. However there is no such 'right' and the opportunities to talk are few and far between. There is however a pilots meeting on the 29th where I really hope that the anger and frustration felt by many of us will be tempered with rational and constructive ideas on how best to proceed for all of us, pilots and company alike. There is still time to lessen the effects on our careers by DECs and prevent the necessity of revisiting the spectre in the future.
It is in all our interests that EK continues with its expansion. We now have an opportunity to base this growth on a firmer base of trust and cooperation than the sands of distrust and confrontation.
The fat lady hasn't sung yet, but she's on the stage...
Last edited by mozzie; 22nd Sep 2003 at 16:41.