ATC once again showed he is going to run this airline into the ground.
By sacking guys who’ve had 0 issues in their career, but had a onetime spike in sickness ( i personally know a guy who got the boot last week because he broke his leg in a car accident last year), he has changed everything.
If you get sick for more than a few days (who know how many that is now) for whatever reason, including an accident, you put yourself on death row....
Not only is this a very dangerous precedent in the airline industry, the effects on pilot retention in EK will be massive once this virus thing is over.
Everyone will now plan their career completely different once things normalise. Get in, maybe get a command and some hours and then get out ASAP.
The random sacking of guys is a game changer for +90% percent of the pilots remaining on the paylist.