Originally Posted by
Neutral Selector
People, this is a thread for Emirates rumours. Not a thread for people to air their personal grievances against certain nationalities. Can we please keep it on topic?
This is true. However, I'd just like to add one last point on that:
I was at EK from 2008 - 2016. Whilst there, one of Human Factors Specialists (not a pilot) completed his PhD and used surveys of the EK pilot community for his thesis on pilot culture. For a whole year, every pilot in EK on attending the annual CRM recurrent, would fill in a survey of about 100 questions (I think). The results were then shown to us on the next recurrent CRM cycle the following year. The Human Factors Specialist left to become a professor at a UK University if I recall correctly?
Anyway, my point is this: The survey results showed that there was almost no difference in culture between the pilots. We were almost identical despite our nationalities, race or religion. We were more closely bound by the personality traits that make us pilots, than we were by anything else. The only results to questions on the survey that had a wider scattering of answers were where religious adherence was involved (IIRC). That seems to show that the 'outliers' we remember working with were likely standing out not because of their nationality, but because of their unique personalities.
This also fits in with what I remember from my time there. Of about 4500 pilots, about 10 were absolute nightmares who I wouldn't want to be anywhere near, another 10 were maybe a bit eccentric but tolerable for a flight duty, and the rest were absolutely great individuals who I'd happily fly with every day - the consummate professionals who were nice guys and just wanted to go to work, have a nice day out and get paid at the end of it.
Anyway, back on topic.