What pilots ought consider is the message it sends airline management. The cartel may well be turning on each other.
Many insiders can detail the quiet no compete deals airlines strike with each other, to limit poaching. IATA conferences are full of such chats...
Interestingly, as globalisation actually works for pilots with a demographic and structural shortage evident all over the globe this 'drive' suggests that EK are well aware of the discontent at CX and notwithstanding the many shortcomings of life in the dystopian nightmare of UAE, EK are prepared to target competitors strategic asset base; their pilots.