Max Alt To suggest that anyone joining EK as a DEC is a Scab is ludicrous in the extreme. I cannot take anything you say now seriously..
The Rev Dr D Are you too beginning to lose your cool over this DEC business?? I have always found your reports balanced and Yes I agree it must be a shock for those ex Captains who joined as F/O's to find themselves in this position but correct me if I am wrong but any F/O in EK who has the required Wide Body Command hours and total of 10000hrs has been told to make his case for an Upgrade???
As 411A says never go from LHS to RHS unless in desperation and remember once you join an expat Airline you are on your own with no backup.It has always been thus.
High Cirrus Yes the Package is not good as you say. US$6400 per month. Accommodation is a hit and miss affair by all accounts and on a Take it or Lump it basis.
If EK think that seasoned Captains are prepared to play silly games over Three Days in order to satisfy an Empire Building HR Dept which as other people have said proves nothing much then I think they will have trouble attracting the right people.
All of this should please the present emcumbents in EK as the Company might find that not everyone wants to join!! Sure there will be perhaps thousands of applications but every job in Flight Interrnational gets the same response.
White Knight Are you still seeing EK through your Rose Tinted Spectacles???? You have said on many occasions that you joined EK for the Lifestyle and not the Money!! Having now seen what the Payscales are for F/O's in EK I see what you mean!!!! But what kind of Lifestyle can you have on that Money???